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There were 4,678 white students enrolled in Clark County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.3% decrease from the 4,694 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Clark County welcomed a total of 5,994 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 78% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the nine schools in Clark County, George Rogers Clark High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,393 students, making up 80% 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
Willis H. Justice Elementary School	79.7%	467
Strode Station Elementary School	69.4%	543
Shearer Elementary School	81.2%	442
William G. Conkwright Elementary School	81.5%	550
Phoenix Academy	72.1%	111
Clark County Preschool	72.5%	495
Robert D. Campbell Jr. High School	79.8%	871
Rev. Henry E. Baker Sr. Intermediate School	76.9%	774
George Rogers Clark High School	80%	1,741