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There were 8,607 white students enrolled in Whitley County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.4% increase from the 8,570 white 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, white students comprised 94.4% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 18 schools in Whitley County, Whitley County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,034 students, making up 96.9% 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 White Students Enrolment	Total Enrollment
Corbin Educational Center	92.4%	79
Corbin Preschool	85.1%	148
Corbin Elementary School	93%	399
Corbin High School	92.3%	882
Corbin Middle School	94.3%	696
Corbin Primary School	88.9%	832
Corbin School of Innovation	93.8%	241
Colonel Academy	97.2%	178
Boston Elementary School	95.8%	215
Whitley Central Intermediate School	94.9%	495
Whitley County East Elementary School	97.6%	288
Whitley County Alternative School	97.3%	112
Oak Grove Elementary School	96.2%	762
Pleasant View Elementary School	96%	278
Whitley County North Elementary School	95.4%	368
Whitley County Central Primary School	95.7%	530
Whitley County High School	96.9%	1,067
Whitley County Middle School	94.5%	620
Williamsburg City School	95.5%	926