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There were 2,214 white students enrolled in Powell County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 3.2% decrease from the 2,287 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Powell County welcomed a total of 2,328 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 95.1% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the six schools in Powell County, Powell County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 662 students, making up 94.7% 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
Bowen Elementary School	94.8%	251
Powell County Academy	97.6%	42
Powell County Middle School	96.3%	492
Clay City Elementary School	94.2%	479
Powell County High School	94.7%	699
Stanton Elementary School	95.3%	365