Fayette County Public Schools (Kentucky)

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Fayette County Public Schools
Address
701 East Main Street
Kentucky
, Kentucky, 40502
United States
District information
TypePublic
GradesPreK–12 [1]
SuperintendentDemetrus Liggins [2]
Budget
  • Revenue:
  • US$617.5MM (2018–19)
  • Expenditures:
  • US$585.9MM (2018–19)
NCES District ID 2101860 [1]
Students and staff
Students41,415 (2021–22) [1]
Teachers3,074.72 (FTE) (2021–22) [1]
Staff3,026.00 (FTE) (2021–22) [1]
Student–teacher ratio13.47:1 (2021–2022) [1]
Other information
Website fcps.net

Fayette County Public Schools is a school district based in Lexington, Kentucky (U.S.).

Contents

The district serves all of Fayette County, which is coextensive with the city of Lexington.

Administration

Superintendent

Other administrators

Board of education

The Fayette County Board of Education consists of members elected to four year terms from five districts, as well as the Superintendent. Districts 1, 3, and 5 hold elections in presidential election years, while Districts 2, and 4 hold elections in mid-term years.

The board holds two meetings each month, both open to the public. The first meeting of the month is an agenda planning meeting, while official action is taken at the second meeting. The second meeting of each month is televised locally on cable channel 197 [6] and streamed on the district's website. [7]

School Board members

  • Monica Mundy [8]
  • Tyler Murphy (Chair) [8]
  • Penny Christian [8]
  • Amanda Ferguson [8]
  • Amy Green (Vice Chair) [8]

Schools

Secondary schools

High schools

Middle schools

  • E.J. Hayes Middle School
  • Beaumont Middle School
  • Bryan Station Middle School
  • Jessie Clark Middle School
  • Leestown Middle School
  • Lexington Traditional Magnet School
  • Morton Middle School
  • Southern Middle School
  • Tates Creek Middle School
  • Winburn Middle School
  • Crawford Middle School

Combined middle/high schools

  • Carter G. Woodson Academy — An all-boys college preparatory program for grades 6–12, aimed mainly at minority students. [9] The program was formerly housed at Crawford Middle School, but is now at Frederick Douglass High School. [10]
  • Martin Luther King Jr. Academy

4-8 schools

Primary schools

Magnet programs

FCPS offers many magnet programs with varying entrance requirements.

Magnets without entrance criteria

Magnets with entrance criteria

Lottery magnets with entrance criteria

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Search for Public School Districts – District Detail for Search for Public School Districts - District Detail for Fayette County". National Center for Education Statistics . Institute of Education Sciences . Retrieved January 13, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Superintendent's Office". Fayette County Public Schools. Retrieved January 12, 2023.[ self-published source ]
  3. ↑ "Admin" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 29, 2017. Retrieved July 28, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Superintendent" . Retrieved July 28, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Admin" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 29, 2017. Retrieved July 28, 2017.
  6. ↑ "New channel number".
  7. ↑ "Fayette county public schools" . Retrieved January 30, 2018.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 "Board Members - Fayette County Public Schools".
  9. ↑ Honeycutt Spears, Valarie (December 28, 2014). "Fayette's Carter G. Woodson Academy for boys shows promising early results". Lexington Herald-Leader . Archived from the original on January 2, 2015. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
  10. ↑ Honeycutt Spears, Valarie (February 4, 2015). "State approves a new Fayette County high school; construction could begin in June". Lexington Herald-Leader . Archived from the original on February 5, 2015. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
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