Mission
The mission of the Kenton County School District is to provide a world class education ensuring ALL students are college and/or career ready and prepared for the 21st Century Economy.
Core Beliefs
- It’s About All KIDS
- It is our responsibility to ensure every child reaches their maximum learning potential
- All students deserve a safe, positive and supportive environment
- Every student should have an adult advocate in the school setting
- Students learn best when actively engaged in the learning process
- Maintaining high expectations leads to higher levels of student achievement
- All students are inspired to learn when provided rigorous, relevant, innovative and creative learning opportunities in a positive environment
- Recognition and acceptance of cultural, social, physical, and economic differences creates a healthy learning community
- Sharing and using results to inform our decisions about instruction, resources, and curriculum leads to higher levels of student achievement
- Students, educators, staff, families, business, and the community share in the responsibility for creating an environment in which all students can learn and succeed at high levels
- High Quality Public education is essential to our democracy and economic growth
Goals
- 5 Star School District
- Every School 5 Star
- Transition Readiness Rate (CCR) 95%
- ACT 22
- Graduation Rate 95%
- Attendance 96.25%
- Students Reading on Grade Level Exiting 3rd-95%
- Beginning in 4th grade, ALL students will participate in at least one activity providing a meaningful connection to school beyond the regular classroom
- Remain fiscally solvent/efficient
Message from the Superintendent
As the superintendent of the Kenton County School System, I am honored to be part of this great community and to be able to serve our amazing kids. We are a “System of Excellence” that is committed to continual growth to ensure that Every Child is college and/or career ready and prepared for the 21st Century Economy. We believe in the incredible potential of our students and embrace them as individual learners. Working as a team with our parents, our community and “Team Kenton” we are confident that we will reach all identified goals for kids while becoming a national leader in education. We encourage everyone to spend time on our district web site as it’s designed to be the clearinghouse for information for all stakeholders. We hope you find it informative and that while browsing you learn more about the educational opportunities and extra-curricular activities our kids are doing in our schools and our mission to serve our students and communities. It's About ALL Kids.
College/Career Readiness
Fiscally Solvent & Efficient
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Staff Accomplishments
2018-2019 KCSD Growth Strategies
- Highly effective leadership in all areas of the district
- Highly effective teaching/learning in every class every day - Core Expectations of Quality Instruction and Pyramid of Interventions-training/implementation
- District Improvement Plan implementation and impact
- Professional Learning Communities (PLC); as vehicle to build teams and capacity
- Continuation of building strong curriculum based on standards and sharing best practices across the district
- Assessment for learning; Formative/Summative with data used to inform instruction
- Systemic monitoring visits with specific feedback (Plan of Excellence)
- Systemic approach to ensure all Kenton County students are transition ready
- Continued emphasis on efficiency
- Strong community and family partnerships
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