Robbie Fletcher, Ed.D.Kentucky Commissioner of education | https://www.education.ky.gov/CommOfEd/Pages/KDE-Leadership-Team.aspx
Robbie Fletcher, Ed.D.Kentucky Commissioner of education | https://www.education.ky.gov/CommOfEd/Pages/KDE-Leadership-Team.aspx
Of all the students welcomed in the 2022-23 school year, 52.5% of them were boys, and 47.5% were girls.
Data also showed that most of the students were white, representing 97.1% of the total enrollment.
Letcher County School District roughly covers schools within Letcher County with its main office in Whitesburg.
Among the two districts in Letcher County, Jenkins Independent School District ranked second in enrollment numbers with 547 students.
In the previous school year, Letcher County School District had the highest number of students among Letcher County districts.
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.
| District | City (main office) | Total Enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| Letcher County School District | Whitesburg | 2,706 |
| Jenkins Independent School District | Jenkins | 547 |
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