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There were 1,511 white students enrolled in Washington County schools in the 2022-23 school year, a 1.1% increase from the 1,494 white students in the previous school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

Data showed that Washington County welcomed a total of 1,906 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 79.3% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the five schools in Washington County, North Washington Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 536 students, making up 91.6% 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
Commander Academy	81.8%	77
North Washington Elementary School	91.6%	585
Washington County Middle School	69%	213
Washington County High School	82.7%	544
Washington County Elementary School	64.7%	487