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There were 9,754 white students enrolled in Laurel County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.6% decrease from the 9,914 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Laurel County welcomed a total of 10,399 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 93.8% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 18 schools in Laurel County, North Laurel High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,309 students, making up 94.5% 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
East Bernstadt Elementary School	95.2%	538
London Elementary School	90.5%	603
McDaniel Learning Center	97.8%	89
Wyan-Pine Grove Elementary School	89.8%	471
Laurel County Schools Elearning Academy	100%	13
Bush Elementary School	95.5%	559
South Laurel Middle School	92.4%	1,057
Laurel County Day Treatment	94.6%	222
Camp Ground Elementary School	95.1%	345
Colony Elementary School	94.6%	424
Hazel Green Elementary School	95%	398
Johnson Elementary School	95.5%	359
Hunter Hills Elementary School	91.7%	659
Keavy Elementary School	95.9%	318
North Laurel Middle School	95.4%	1,089
North Laurel High School	94.5%	1,385
South Laurel High School	94%	1,222
Sublimity Elementary School	93.2%	351
Cold Hill Elementary School	90.6%	297