Carter County Schools is currently working on a grant application related to additional CTE (Career and Technical Education) programming. We are seeking input from stakeholders regarding pathways to consider adding to the options for students. Any community member, parent, or school employee can complete this survey. Please take the time to fill this out to help inform our decisions on how best to serve our students and our community.
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We are celebrating Agriculture in Kentucky and invite everyone to the county-wide Down on the Farm event at Olive Hill Elementary on Monday, September 22, from 5:30 p.m. -7:30 p.m. Join our Family Resource Centers, Youth Service Centers, West Carter FFA, and Miss Kentucky for this FREE family event to recognize and learn about the importance of agriculture in Carter County and Kentucky. There will be hayrides, a petting zoo, train rides, and more! Community partners, including include local farms, agencies, and businesses, will be set up with information and displays.
Heritage Elementary Update: The issue is a snapped utility pole. It is being fixed but it may be a lengthy repair.
While Heritage does not have electricity, our students are safe and the teachers, staff and Mr. Clark are ensuring their day is as normal as possible. Since the community is without power, it is better to keep our students at school until regular dismissal time to ensure their safe dismissal home.
(If a parent or guardian on a student's pick-up list wants to pick up their child early, they may do so).
Our school nutrition staff are ensuring that students will have lunch today.
Heritage Elementary School lost power this morning. Everyone is safe. Mr. Clark and his wonderful staff are ensuring we resume as normal operation as possible. Ronnie Cooley is working with utility company to determine cause and restoration time. We will share more information as we have it.
Enjoy a well-deserved break today! Happy Labor Day!
Carter County Preschool and Daycare teachers were trained in the Amplify CKLA curriculum today. They will now use the same curriculum our K-8 students use.
Just a reminder that, in observance of Labor Day, there is no school on Monday, September 1, 2025.
We extend a huge thank you to Members Choice Credit Union in Grayson for their generous support that will allow all Carter County students to attend East Carter High School and West Carter High School athletic events with free admission! This hopefully will allow more Carter County families and students to experience the athletic Standard of Excellence in Carter County Schools!
#TheGoldStandard
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Here is a quick look at the 2025-26 school calendar.
Welcome Back to a New School Year!
We are ready to welcome our students back to school! The first day of school for students is Monday, August 25, 2025
Sharing our nominations for the Gold Standard of Excellence! These were submitted by staff, students, families and community. You can recognize Carter County Staff who are demonstrating the Gold Standard of Excellence from this link: https://forms.gle/AgdwjnEik3DmaK4b7
We are excited to share our new app! Parents will now use one app for everything Carter County Schools!
The Carter County Board of Education recognized employees and students who worked hard to serve 222,497 summer meals.
Our ECHS and WCHS High School Math teachers (including our Special Education teachers!!!) are learning more about our new high school Math program-Illustrative Mathematics. Ryan Raybourn is leading them as a practitioner expert. #StandardOfExcellence #cartercoproud
Congratulations to West Carter's FFA members who attended the Kentucky State Fair and participated in the small power contest and placed in the Top 10 in the state!
Team members include Ethan Easterling, Trevor Jones, Ella Bush and Shelby Williams.
Carter County PreK teacher Carol Stewart and Instructional Supervisor Nellie Wright attended the PreK for All event in Morehead to advocate for universal PreK funding and opportunity.
Congratulations to Tera Baldwin (East Carter High School) who completed the Kentucky Master Teacher of Personal Finance course through the St Louis Federal Reserve over the summer! The course was offered at Eastern Kentucky University.
Click on this link to complete the Federal Program Review survey:
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East and West Carter Middle School EXCELLENT Math teams (Tommie Freize, Barry Forbes, Brandy Stephens, Leslie Kee, Christi Burnett, Whitney Salley, Regan Kinney, Kathy Bledsoe, Tara Rogers, Carla Weddington, Heather Prince, Rayma Kouns, Zach Stevens) participated in Access to Algebra training through AdvanceKY. Carter County East and West Middle Schools were selected to participate and offer Algebra in our middle schools.
