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The only school district in Leslie County had rising enrollment in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

There were 1,765 students in Leslie County School District, 5.4% higher than the year before.

Enrollment in Leslie County was steady with the state's trend of increasing enrollment.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2022-23 school year, 52.1% of them were boys, and 47.9% were girls.

Data also showed that most of the students were white, representing 98.5% of Leslie County School District's total enrollment.

Leslie County School District has a main office in Hyden and is the only school district within Leslie County.

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	Total Enrollment in 2022-23	Total Enrollment in 2021-22	Total % Change
Mountain View Elementary School	551	499	10.4%
Leslie County High School	503	485	3.7%
Stinnett Elementary School	357	350	2%
W. B. Muncy Elementary School	257	233	10.3%
Hayes Lewis Elementary School	130	143	-9.1%