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There were 2,063 white students enrolled in Bath County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 0.7% increase from the 2,049 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Bath County welcomed a total of 2,213 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 93.2% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the five schools in Bath County, Bath County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 602 students, making up 90.3% 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
Second Chance Academy	94.9%	39
Crossroads Elementary School	95.4%	456
Bath County Middle School	93%	460
Owingsville Elementary School	94.9%	591
Bath County High School	90.3%	667