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Welcome to Pulaski County Schools
OUR Vision and Mission
Vision: Every student - Transition Ready
Mission: Pulaski County Schools will provide a safe, supportive environment to meet the individual needs of all students and ensure they are ready for the transition to college or a career.
Core Purpose: Prepare all students to be productive and successful citizens.
Core Beliefs: We believe all students should be surrounded by a learning environment that ensures their safety, stimulates their minds, and challenges their abilities. We believe in establishing high standards, analyzing data to measure achievement and find performance gaps, and then acting upon the findings for the purpose of continuous improvement. We believe in the continuous pursuit of excellence in student achievement, academic rigor, and instructional quality. We believe collaboration with students, faculty, staff, families, and key community and state stakeholders is vital to our students' and district's success. We believe equity, fairness, and diversity are fundamental to a healthy education system; we value individual differences and contributions of a diverse student body and staff. We believe in the development of students’ upright character so they may become conscientious and productive citizens in a complex and interconnected world.
Our Achievements
- 3 Schools Named National Blue Ribbon Schools
- Oak Hill Elementary - 2018
- Shopville Elementary - 2019
- Northern Elementary - 2024
- "GREEN" District at all levels based on KSA 2024
- High School Football State Champs - 2014 (PCHS)
- High School Football Regional Title - 2022 (SWHS)
- Middle School Football State Champs - 2022 (NMS)
- National Archery State Champs - 2022 (PCHS)
- Cheerleader National Champs - 2013 and 2019 (SWHS) 2019 and 2022 (PCHS)
- Basketball Regional champs - 2023 and 2024 (PCHS)
- Robotics - BES and NMS
Our Students
- We serve 7801 students PreK- 12
- 18 American Indian or Native Alaskan Students
- 104 Asian Students
- 95 African American Students
- 292 Multi-Ethnic Students
- 206 EL students speaking 12 different languages
- 971 Students receiving special services
- 414 Students receiving speech services
Program Spotlight
- 55 teachers completed LETRS training
- Pulaski Area Technology Center
- Welding
- Construction Carpentry
- Automotives
- Nursing
- Industrial Maintenance
- EL Newcomers Class for high school students
District News
In 2022, the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) created the Kentucky Reading Academies, a partnership between KDE and Lexia's Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling (LETRS), to provide educators and administrators with 2-year professional learning on evidence-based early literacy instruction. Pulaski County Schools has 55 dedicated teachers who successfully completed LETRS training in Fall 2024. This achievement reflects their unwavering commitment to advancing early literacy education in Pulaski County. To celebrate this milestone, we were honored to have Ashley Hill, KDE Assistant Director of Early Literacy, join us on Monday, October 14th.
The Pulaski County School District is celebrating its remarkable performance with the recent release of state testing results. Superintendent Patrick Richardson noted, “All of our schools are among the highest-scoring in the state. Our whole community has so much to be proud of. Our students are learning well, working hard, and putting forth greater effort in their studies and on these important tests that tell us all how we’re doing as a school system. We have considerable support from parents and families, which makes a big difference. And I am especially grateful for our teachers and staff, who are dedicated to instructing, leading, and motivating our students, and who are too often underappreciated in our current political and social climate. Our teachers and staff are among the best in Kentucky.”
The Kentucky Summative Assessment (KSA) was administered in May, and scores for every public school in the state are now available to the public. Here’s how Pulaski County Schools stacked up against other districts:
--Elementary Schools: Top 6% – Ranked #11 of 182 districts
--Middle Schools: Top 13% – Ranked #23 of 182 districts
--High Schools: Top 12% – Ranked #22 of 178 districts
i-Ready Super Stretch Schools are schools with 200 or more students that had 55 percent or more of students meet Stretch Growth® goals. Stretch Growth sets an ambitious but attainable goal for student growth. It reflects the amount of growth needed for a student who is below grade level to be on a path toward attaining on-grade level proficiency or the amount of growth needed for a student who is on grade level to achieve advanced proficiency levels.
Congratulations Oak Hill Elementary for being named an i-Ready 2024 Super Stretch School!
The US Department of Education recognizes schools based on high academic achievement or success in closing achievement gaps for diverse groups of students. The program began in 1982 with a goal of shining a spotlight on the best schools in the United States and to share best practices. To learn more about the program, visit the USDOE National Blue Ribbon Schools website.
Northern Elementary School was named a National Blue Ribbon School for 2024 because of Exemplary High Performance. Congratulations NHES for a job well done!
Congratulations to Zach Smith, Counselor at Pulaski Elementary School. He was awarded a Social Emotional Learning grant from the KY Association of Schools Counselors. Grants were awarded for the purpose of creating calming and self-regulation areas within the school building for students to have access to. Mr. Smith applied for this competitive grant with the idea to create a "mobile" calming unit where students have access throughout the school day without having to come to the front office. This space will have books and resources for learning self-regulation strategies as well as sensory items that are useful in grounding techniques and coping skills.
Oak Hill Elementary was recently named an iReady Super Stretch School by Curriculum Associates. Oak Hill was one of six schools in Kentucky to receive the award recognizing stretch growth in English Language Arts. Stretch growth attainment puts students who placed below grade level on their first diagnostic on a path to proficiency while helping students who placed on or above grade level maintain advanced proficiency levels. Over half of Oak Hill’s students reached this ambitious yet attainable goal during the 2022-2023 school year. To celebrate their hard work and dedication, students and staff enjoyed a special visit from Snargg, a member of the iReady crew.
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2024 Kentucky Summative Assessment (KSA) Results
Reading
PROFICIENT | DISTINGUISHED | |
---|---|---|
Elementary | 36% | 27% |
Middle | 29% | 30% |
High | 38% | 21% |
Mathematics
PROFICIENT | DISTINGUISHED | |
---|---|---|
Elementary | 42% | 18% |
Middle | 34% | 18% |
High | 32% | 24% |