County / FIPS 21043
Carter County
Kentucky
Carter County runs 12 public schools reporting to NCES. No Medicare-certified hospital reports to CMS from here — a real finding about rural healthcare access, not a gap in this site; Kentucky has other facilities nearby.
At a glance
Public schools
12
Hospitals
0
With a star rating
0
Land area
409
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Carter County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$217.6M
Per resident
$8,174
Change since FY2021
+10%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $198M |
| 2022 | $175M |
| 2023 | $200M |
| 2024 | $195M |
| 2025 | $218M |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. Carter County ranks 1554th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Public schools in Carter County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carter City Elementary School | Carter County | Grayson | 144 |
| East Carter County High School | Carter County | Grayson | 729 |
| East Carter Middle School | Carter County | Grayson | 505 |
| Heritage Elementary School | Carter County | Grayson | 349 |
| Olive Hill Elementary School | Carter County | Olive Hill | 381 |
| Prichard Elementary School | Carter County | Grayson | 635 |
| Star Elementary School | Carter County | Rush | 133 |
| Tygart Creek Elementary School | Carter County | Olive Hill | 342 |
| West Carter County High School | Carter County | Olive Hill | 522 |
| West Carter Middle School | Carter County | Olive Hill | 366 |
| Carter Virtual Academy | Carter County | Olive Hill | 31 |
| Carter County Career and Technical Center | Carter County | Olive Hill | — |