[RunItUpTheGut]

Pike County had 10 high schools not so long ago. Now, there's six. As was already mentioned, Phelps is the only school that you could make a case for closing because it's so small, but it's very isolated.
Merging those six would be like merging Whitley and Harlan counties. It's a huge area.

That is true.

I believe Scott County is the biggest public school in the state if im not mistaken.
If you were to combine all Pike County schools, i would assume they would dwarf Scott County.

The area of Pike County is amazing. By far the biggest area of land in KY. Ive been over there for work a couple of times. I feel like it takes a long for me to drive threw Pike County as it does to make it from Hazard to Pike County.