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There were 44 Asian students enrolled in Whitley County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 22.2% increase from the 36 Asian students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Whitley County welcomed a total of 9,116 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Asian students comprised 0.5% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 18 schools in Whitley County, Corbin Primary School recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 10 students, making up 1.2% of the school's total student body.

Despite escaping some of the pandemic's educational disruptions, Kentucky's achievement gaps have remained an issue since 2019. In the eighth-grade reading assessments, for example, Hispanic students scored eight points lower than their white peers, and the gap reached 15 points in math. Black students fared even worse, falling more than 20 points behind and facing a failure rate nearly double that of their white counterparts.

School name	% of Asian Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Corbin Preschool	4.1%	148
Corbin Elementary School	1%	399
Corbin High School	1%	882
Corbin Middle School	0.1%	696
Corbin Primary School	1.2%	832
Oak Grove Elementary School	0.3%	762
Whitley County North Elementary School	0.3%	368
Whitley County High School	0.2%	1,067
Whitley County Middle School	0.5%	620
Williamsburg City School	0.6%	926