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There were 3,892 white students enrolled in Boyle County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.2% increase from the 3,845 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Boyle County welcomed a total of 5,161 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 75.4% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 10 schools in Boyle County, Boyle County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 806 students, making up 88.5% 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
Boyle County Middle School	88.6%	710
Boyle County High School	88.5%	911
Junction City Elementary School	82.1%	448
Woodlawn Elementary School	89.4%	690
Perryville Elementary School	90%	309
Mary G. Hogsett Primary School	54.6%	405
John W. Bate Middle School	57.6%	422
Edna L. Toliver Intermediate School	55.9%	544
Anchor Academy	54.2%	72
Danville High School	53.4%	511
Sunrise Academy	83.9%	62
Kentucky School for the Deaf	80.5%	77