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CovCath is also. Using the figures when the schools were last realigned, CovCath would have been a 4A school and Highlands would have been a 3A school. Both Highlands and CovCath play 5A currently. I think Somerset was a 1A school that is now playing 2A. There are a total of 7 schools playing up if I recall properly. That's a very small percentage of the roughly 200 schools playing football and the KHSAA only permits a move up if a school would be geographically isolated in its true class. For example, Highlands would have been the only 3A school and CovCath the only 4A school in all of N. Ky if they had been forced to play in their true class. A school is not permitted to move down even if it is geographically isolated because of the KHSAA's philosophy that the number of boys enrolled at a school can have a large impact on the level of play of a school's football program because of the number of players needed to participate in a football game and the very physical nature of the game. Injuries to a couple of players at a small school has a much greater disparate effect on a team with a 100 boys in the school than it does on a team with 1400 boys in the school.

Somerset is actually supposed to be right at the borderline of 1A-2A but are playing up in 3A because it makes more sense geographically. I believe Russellville is also supposed to be 1A and is playing up in 3A.