Jefferson County Public Schools

The principal of Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS)’ state agency schools is moving to a new job in the high school office. Heather Moss will become the new Executive Administr...

The assistant principal at one Jefferson County Public Schools all-boys school is being promoted to principal at another all-boys school. Gerard Garrett Jr. is leaving W.E.B. DuBoi...

A former teacher, assistant principal and current principal at Slaughter Elementary School has been named the new principal at the school she attended as a child - Brandeis Eleme...

The girls' track and field team at duPont Manual High School has dominated Class 3A. The Crimsons are looking to win their fourth straight outdoor state title, sending the class o...

Last year, McKenzie Sweasy wanted to play softball for Waggener High School, but the school didn't have a team and had yet to field a softball team since 2019. This year, that dro...

The Academy @ Shawnee baseball team started the 2024 season red-hot. The Golden Eagles won their first five games, the most wins the program has had in a single season this centur...

Up to 50 adults who want to be teachers will have the opportunity to get their master’s degree in teaching in just one year under a new agreement between Bellarmine University and...

Middle school students learn while volunteering April 17, 2024 - More than 200 Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) middle school students spent their Wednesday morning servi...

Louisville Male High School softball is off to a strong start this season, largely, thanks to the Bulldog's ability to hit home runs. The Bulldogs have three players in the top 50...

After Fern Creek High School's Film Club's first feature film, "A Perfect Blemish" won Best Narrative Feature during the Gary International Black Film Festival, the club began wor...

Students’ reward is to “buy” books April 9, 2024—Four Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) elementary schools are installing new vending machines. No, the machines aren’t fil...

Monique Brooks Roberts is a professional violinist and graduate of Louisville Male High School. Monique has played with the likes of Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross and Lady Gaga, but...

JCPS has strong showing with 112 projects submitted March 28, 2024—Bowen Elementary School won first place in the K-5 division at the Student Technology Leadership Program (STL...

A seventh grader at Meyzeek Middle School had an idea: teach his fellow students about stocks and the stock market. That's when he created the Stock Market Club at Meyzeek. The cl...

JCPS has more than 19,000 multilingual learners, many of them new to America. But with a shortage of translators for them, Fairdale, Seneca and other JCPS high schools are placing...

As part of a state project, students at Bowen Elementary created "Cool Down" sensory kits for classrooms last year. The items in the kits help kids deal with anxiety or high stres...

Christina’s CommUNITY Cues features engagement strategies for the classroom March 25, 2024—A new book co-authored by a Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) employee and her d...

Deborah Thomas was in the first cohort at the Georgia Chaffee TAPP School back in 1973 and has a message for teen mothers who currently attend this special school - don't put your...

Since its inception in 2017, the Academies of Louisville have been producing success stories of students who learned a trade or skill in high school, got hands on experience worki...

Valley High School and Conway Middle School are known for having one of the best chess teams in the nation. While both programs want to add another national title to their trophy ...