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Ryle is a big HS- 6A.
I know they have kids from Gray Middle & Ockerman Middle- maybe even Camp Ernst going there (though I think most who attend Ernst go to Cooper).
But- surely not every kid from each one of those middle schools matriculates on to Ryle do they?
Gray alone is a large middle school as is Ockerman. Camp Ernst isn't far behind - RA Jones is a distant third.
Using some Lexington middle schools as an example- @ Southern, you have some kids who end up at Tates Creek, others @ Henry Clay. Would the case w/ Ryle be any different?
The way most Middle School football in N Ky (ie: the NKMSAA (Northern Ky Middle School Athletic Association) is set up is that one middle school fields one team. So there is Twenhofel, Summit View, Turkeyfoot, Woodland, Campbell Co and Cov Cath. (not to mention Tichenor, Bishop Brossart, Newport, Newport Central Catholic and several others.
In the case of Cov Cath & New Cath- since those High Schools don't have formal Middle Schools (similar to Lex Cath) it is a stipulation that if you are playing for those 7th & 8th grade teams that you are also attending a parochial school in the Covington Diocese- ie: schools like St Agnes, Blessed Sacrament, St Pius & Immaculate Heart of Mary. Some may say that's a big advantage pulling from all those schools- but when you look at the small population of boys at each of those and total them together, I'd wager you come very close to what a single school like Campbell Co or Turkeyfoot has in the way of the male population.
I do know that right or wrong, the NKMSAA did not want to include Union in it's league this year.

The reason is simple Union or Ryle whatever you call it would beat every team in the NKMSAA and that is why. I can tell you that every kid on both 7th and 8th grade teams attend Ryle high school per the high school boundaries.