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Letcher County

Whitesburg, Kentucky · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

2,429
Students enrolled
9
Public schools
168
Classroom teachers (FTE)
14.5:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 55
  • Kindergarten 184
  • Grade 1 193
  • Grade 2 194
  • Grade 3 194
  • Grade 4 193
  • Grade 5 169
  • Grade 6 173
  • Grade 7 206
  • Grade 8 174
  • Grade 9 198
  • Grade 10 170
  • Grade 11 149
  • Grade 12 174
  • Ungraded 3

By race/ethnicity

  • White 97%
  • Two or more races 1%
  • Hispanic/Latino <1%
  • Black or African American <1%
  • Asian <1%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

68% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 1,654 of 2,427 students in the 8 of its 9 schools that report
  • Free lunch 65%
  • Reduced-price lunch 3%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$19,910 spent per student on day-to-day operations Kentucky median: $13,611 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $9,715
  • Support services $9,176
  • Other (food service, etc.) $1,018

Where the money comes from

  • Local 18%
  • State 53%
  • Federal 29%

Total revenue $53.9 milliontotal spending $55.3 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

Rural: Remote

Total staff (FTE)

449

District office

224 Park St, Whitesburg KY 41858

County

Letcher County

Official website

NCES District ID

2103360

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