I am confused. I thought that Greenup County HS was closer to Greenup (city) and not South Shore.

 

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Greenup+County+High+School/@38.5618446,-82.9941365,11z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x884662e5c6926537:0x233823a907a7170f

 

Are academics that bad at Greenup County?

 

They have improved, but at one time they were pretty bad. It changes year to year, as everything else does.

According to KDE, here are the academic scores for the 2013-2014 school year.

 

Russell 74.2

Ashland 70.3

Boyd County 69.7

Greenup County 69.2

Raceland-Worthington 69.1

Fairview 66.5

 

Russell is far and away the leader, but Ashland, Boyd County, Greenup County, and Raceland-Worthington are all together.

 

Why does everybody pick on Greenup County?

 

 

That's odd for Raceland to be that low. Traditionally Raceland, Russell, Ashland, and of course Rose Hill, are tops in this area academically.

 

I'm not picking on Greenup county at all. Academics are not the main reason my friends kids will not be attending Greenup. The main reason for them is the distance to Greenup County high school and the others I mentioned. IMO, if a kid wants to learn and has parents willing to help, they can get a good education at any school. I'm not attacking Greenup counties academics at all.

Is GC academics that bad ? Within the past 2-3 years they have been on academic probation with various threats from the state . Glad it seems to be turning around , but Defeinetly yes , they were that bad recently .

I'm not attacking either , just stating the facts about how bad the situation was recently .

Do many disgruntled parents take their kids from Greenup County to Raceland or Russell in that area?

Don't know why, but didn't the best volleyball player in the 16th leave GC to go to Raceland?

You don't hear of that happening much, honestly. There are various reasons other than athletics that some parents do choose to put their kids in the other local school systems, if they are able though.

 

A friend of mine has two kids in grade school, they live right on the border of Greenup and Boyd Counties. From their house South Shore (Greenup County) is about a 25-30 minute drive depending on traffic, 1 hour plus by bus. In relation, you can get to Russell, Raceland, Fairview, Rose Hill, Ashland, or Boyd county in 15 minutes or less. It's a weird geographic setup for that district, but I understand the reasoning behind it. For that reason, along with academics, my friends kids will not be attending Greenup County.

 

Not sure where you've been the last 10 years or so... There have been many kids transfer to Raceland, Russell, and even Lewis County from the Greenup County district.

Don't know why, but didn't the best volleyball player in the 16th leave GC to go to Raceland?

 

You are asking the wrong person. I know very little about the 16th region. I am in Clark County. I know more about the 10th and 11th than any other region.

 

Not sure where you've been the last 10 years or so... There have been many kids transfer to Raceland, Russell, and even Lewis County from the Greenup County district.

 

I've been out of the loop for a while, it wasn't that common in the past. Who are some of the recent transfers?

Wasn't their an front page story in the ADI last couple years about the number of students that are eligible to attend GC that go to surrounding schools ? I remember the numbers being astounding , at least to me .

Wasn't their an front page story in the ADI last couple years about the number of students that are eligible to attend GC that go to surrounding schools ? I remember the numbers being astounding , at least to me .

 

Greenup board seeks changes in non-resident agreements - News - The Independent Online

 

Greenup board seeks changes in non-resident agreements

 

Mike James

The Independent | Updated 6 months ago

 

The Greenup County Board of Education on Thursday tightened requirements for families who want to send their children to other school districts.

 

The board hashed out proposals for non-resident student agreements in a meeting where they were closely watched by parents who want to send their children to other districts.

 

The board swiftly approved renewals, with no changes, of agreements with three districts — Boyd, Carter and Lewis counties — that attract only a few Greenup students apiece. Most students who attend the three districts do so because they live on the fringes of the sprawling Greenup district and want to avoid long bus rides.

 

It took much longer to craft proposals for four other districts, Raceland-Worthington, Russell, Fairview and Ashland. The first two draw many more students from Greenup than the others — 195 to Raceland and 142 to Russell at last count — and few students living in those districts attend Greenup schools.

 

In the case of Fairview and Ashland, board members said there should be restrictions because they are not adjacent and choosing those districts was not a matter of transportation hardship.

 

The proposals the board settled on set separate caps on the number of Greenup students who may enroll in each district. They include grandfather clauses that will allow students currently enrolled in those districts to stay there, and provisions for children whose parents live in the Greenup district but work in other school systems.

 

All the proposals are contingent on coming to terms with the other districts. If that doesn’t happen, board chairwoman Kelly Adkins said, the two districts would try to work out their differences.

 

The grandfather clauses are based on where students are enrolled as of the meeting day — January 24. The caps in most cases are set somewhat higher.

 

However, the board plans to revisit the agreements each year and set the caps lower each time as grandfathered students graduate or otherwise leave the district.

 

The Raceland proposal would allow 195 students under the grandfather clause and sets the cap at 200. In Russell, 142 students are grandfathered in and the cap is 145.

 

Ashland will have 13 grandfathered students and a cap of 20. Fairview will have 10 and 10.

 

All the proposals were passed on separate votes and all passed by 3-2 margins. Board members Michael Heineman and Sue Miller voted against each of them while Adkins, Linda Wellman and Shirley Whitt voted in favor.

 

In a preliminary round of voting, Heineman and Miller voted in favor of renewing current agreements, which don’t include any restrictions, while Adkins, Wellman and Whitt voted against that proposal.

 

One point of contention was whether to make provisions for younger siblings of grandfathered students who have not yet reached school age. In the end, the board decided against it.

 

That was one of the main objections of at least one parent. “They’re splitting my kids up,” said Rob Hogsten, who has two children in the Raceland district and a 4-year-old who, under the new proposal, will have to attend Greenup schools.

 

Kentucky law provides for appeals to the state education commissioner if districts can’t come to an agreement, according to James W. Lyon Jr., the board’s attorney. In a letter to board members, Lyon said he believes the commissioner will take into account the academic standing of some Greenup schools and “the substantial and cost-prohibitive changes necessary were all currently out-of-district students required to return to the Greenup County School District in 2013-2014.”

 

The issue is important to the district because under current agreements, when students opt out of Greenup schools, state per-pupil funding follows them to their chosen school. At $3,833 per child, Greenup has been losing nearly $1.5 million per year.

 

MIKE JAMES can be reached at [email protected] or

 

(606) 326-2652.

Wasn't their an front page story in the ADI last couple years about the number of students that are eligible to attend GC that go to surrounding schools ? I remember the numbers being astounding ' date=' at least to me .[/quote']

 

I am sure that is true, which goes back to one of my prior posts about a friend of mine who's kids will not attend GC due to the proximity of many other schools closer to their home. I should have been more clear on my post about transfers out of greenup, I was speaking of athletes. I'm sure there are plenty of other transfers that are non athletes for the reasons I mentioned above. Greenup county is pretty large from a geographical standpoint. However the population center is along the Greenup/Boyd County line. If you live outside of Russell/Flatwoods or Raceland/Worthington you are technically in the Greenup district, even if you are much closer to the other local schools. So its understandable why parents don't want their kids to spend 2-3 hours a day on a bus, when they are 10-15 minutes away from 5-6 other schools.

 

Greenup board seeks changes in non-resident agreements - News - The Independent Online

 

Greenup board seeks changes in non-resident agreements

 

Mike James

The Independent | Updated 6 months ago

 

The Greenup County Board of Education on Thursday tightened requirements for families who want to send their children to other school districts.

 

The board hashed out proposals for non-resident student agreements in a meeting where they were closely watched by parents who want to send their children to other districts.

 

The board swiftly approved renewals, with no changes, of agreements with three districts — Boyd, Carter and Lewis counties — that attract only a few Greenup students apiece. Most students who attend the three districts do so because they live on the fringes of the sprawling Greenup district and want to avoid long bus rides.

 

It took much longer to craft proposals for four other districts, Raceland-Worthington, Russell, Fairview and Ashland. The first two draw many more students from Greenup than the others — 195 to Raceland and 142 to Russell at last count — and few students living in those districts attend Greenup schools.

 

In the case of Fairview and Ashland, board members said there should be restrictions because they are not adjacent and choosing those districts was not a matter of transportation hardship.

 

The proposals the board settled on set separate caps on the number of Greenup students who may enroll in each district. They include grandfather clauses that will allow students currently enrolled in those districts to stay there, and provisions for children whose parents live in the Greenup district but work in other school systems.

 

All the proposals are contingent on coming to terms with the other districts. If that doesn’t happen, board chairwoman Kelly Adkins said, the two districts would try to work out their differences.

 

The grandfather clauses are based on where students are enrolled as of the meeting day — January 24. The caps in most cases are set somewhat higher.

 

However, the board plans to revisit the agreements each year and set the caps lower each time as grandfathered students graduate or otherwise leave the district.

 

The Raceland proposal would allow 195 students under the grandfather clause and sets the cap at 200. In Russell, 142 students are grandfathered in and the cap is 145.

 

Ashland will have 13 grandfathered students and a cap of 20. Fairview will have 10 and 10.

 

All the proposals were passed on separate votes and all passed by 3-2 margins. Board members Michael Heineman and Sue Miller voted against each of them while Adkins, Linda Wellman and Shirley Whitt voted in favor.

 

In a preliminary round of voting, Heineman and Miller voted in favor of renewing current agreements, which don’t include any restrictions, while Adkins, Wellman and Whitt voted against that proposal.

 

One point of contention was whether to make provisions for younger siblings of grandfathered students who have not yet reached school age. In the end, the board decided against it.

 

That was one of the main objections of at least one parent. “They’re splitting my kids up,” said Rob Hogsten, who has two children in the Raceland district and a 4-year-old who, under the new proposal, will have to attend Greenup schools.

 

Kentucky law provides for appeals to the state education commissioner if districts can’t come to an agreement, according to James W. Lyon Jr., the board’s attorney. In a letter to board members, Lyon said he believes the commissioner will take into account the academic standing of some Greenup schools and “the substantial and cost-prohibitive changes necessary were all currently out-of-district students required to return to the Greenup County School District in 2013-2014.”

 

The issue is important to the district because under current agreements, when students opt out of Greenup schools, state per-pupil funding follows them to their chosen school. At $3,833 per child, Greenup has been losing nearly $1.5 million per year.

 

MIKE JAMES can be reached at [email protected] or

 

(606) 326-2652.

 

Absurd. The final paragraph says it all. They don't care about the kids wasting hours of their life every day riding on a school bus. The only thing they care about is the money they will lose by letting kids and parents choose a school close to them.

Absurd. The final paragraph says it all. They don't care about the kids wasting hours of their life every day riding on a school bus. The only thing they care about is the money they will lose by letting kids and parents choose a school close to them.

 

No one seems to reporting GC scores , how they been doing the past 2-3 weeks ? Overall record ?

No one seems to reporting GC scores , how they been doing the past 2-3 weeks ? Overall record ?

 

Since Jan 10th, 4-4. Overall 8-15.

How close is Greenup County to Portsmouth, Ohio?