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There were 3,248 white students enrolled in Lincoln County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 3.3% decrease from the 3,359 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Lincoln County welcomed a total of 3,645 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 89.1% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the seven schools in Lincoln County, Lincoln County High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 893 students, making up 89.3% 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
Crab Orchard Elementary School	93.8%	323
Highland Elementary School	89.4%	227
Lincoln County Middle School	87.8%	793
Hustonville Elementary School	89.3%	478
Lincoln County High School	89.3%	1,000
Stanford Elementary School	86.1%	617
Waynesburg Elementary School	94.2%	207