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There were 686 kindergarten students enrolled in Whitley County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Corbin Primary School welcomed most of the kindergarten students in the county, registering 215 students.

Within Whitley County schools, the highest student population was found in first grade, with the smallest class sizes seen in 12th grade.

Statewide, Whitley County ranked 19th in enrollment numbers. It was also ranked 19th the year before.

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	# of Kindergarten Students Enrolled	% of Student Body	Total Enrollment
Corbin Primary School	215	25.8%	832
Oak Grove Elementary School	123	16.1%	762
Whitley County Central Primary School	119	22.5%	530
Williamsburg City School	63	6.8%	926
Pleasant View Elementary School	51	18.3%	278
Whitley County North Elementary School	42	11.4%	368
Boston Elementary School	31	14.4%	215
Whitley County East Elementary School	31	10.8%	288
Corbin School of Innovation	11	4.6%	241