School Districts K-12

When it comes to schools in Possibility City, choose away.

This is not a city where caring parents automatically steer their kids away from the public schools. Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) is one of the country's larger and more-honored school districts.

It's won the What Parents Want Award for two consecutive years. It placed three schools on Newsweek's list of the country's best high schools, and four on the U.S. News & World Report list - with only one overlap.

The school district's great strength is diversity - it offers everything from traditional schools to Montessori, vocational training to the International Baccalaureate degree. High school magnet programs range from aviation to veterinary science, and there's open enrollment in all the system's high schools.

The other public school systems in the area range from tiny Anchorage Independent School, whose 400 or so K-8 students regularly score at the top of Kentucky accountability tests, to large countywide systems, on either side of the Ohio, with strong academic records of their own.

And the diversity available in the public sector is only extended by the community's other schools, which provide education in the light of varying religious and secular philosophies.

Education is one of the keys to Possibility City - which is why the community has come together behind Every1Reads, a trailblazing effort to have every student in the public schools reading at grade level.