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There were 884 white students enrolled in Williamsburg Independent School District schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1.8% less than the previous year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Williamsburg Independent School District welcomed 926 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 95.5% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the district.

Williamsburg Independent School District roughly covers one school within Whitley County and has a main office in Williamsburg.

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.

Data also shows that between 2019 and 2023, there was an increase of 260% in the number of available teaching posts in Kentucky schools. This often leads to larger class sizes, combining programs, and retaining staff despite potential negative impacts on teacher working conditions.

Year	Total District Enrollment	Total White Students	White %
2022-23	926	884	95.5%
2021-22	940	900	95.7%
2020-21	919	877	95.4%
2019-20	949	903	95.2%