[jamesdeane]

Just a reshuffling that I came up with for discussion (nothing to be taken too seriously, lol) for three of the four mountain regions. But like HCE said in an earlier post, if realignment is done again, which eventually it will be, it would have to start from the 1st region and rework it from west to east.

Mine is just one that felt might work well for the mountains. In the 14th Knott and Letcher counties are close to many of 15th region schools with all the new road systems. I kept Cordia in the 14th even with it being in Knott County because of the school’s close proximity to Hazard. I moved Jackson County to the 14th because it borders three 14th region counties, Owsley, Estill and Lee. Clay County and OBI would be a good fit too for the 14th. I kept Red Bird, located in Clay County, in the 13th because it’s actually closer to Pineville-Bell Co than it is Manchester.

13th
1 Rockcastle County
2 South Laurel
3 North Laurel
4 Knox Central
5 Barbourville
6 Lynn Camp
7 Pineville
8 Bell County
9 Middlesboro
10 Harlan
11 Harlan County
12 Red Bird
13 Williamsburg
14 Whitley County
15 Corbin
16 McCreary County

14th

1 Leslie County
2 Hazard
3 Perry Central
4 Cordia
5 Breathitt County
6 Buckhorn
7 Jackson City
8 Riverside Christian
9 Wolfe County
10 Powell County
11 Estill County
12 Lee County
13 Owsley County
14 Clay County
15 Oneida Baptist
16 Jackson County

15th

1 Letcher Central
2 Knott Central
3 Jenkins
4 June Buchanan
5 Pikeville
6 Pike Central
7 Belfry
8 East Ridge
9 Shelby Valley
10 Floyd Central
11 Prestonsburg
12 Betsy Layne
13 Johnson Central
14 Paintsville
15 Phelps
16 Martin County

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I may have left a few 15th schools out because I did this from memory and not looking at a regional map or any list. I already see that I didn’t list Piarist (if they still belong to the KHSAA.)

As you said, you can't just pick out one or two regions and think it will work statewide, but this is part of what I was playing around with a few years back:

13th Region
49th — Clay, Jackson, Rockcastle County (47th District), Oneida Baptist
50th — North, South, Whitley County, WIlliamsburg
51st — Corbin, Lynn Camp, Knox Central, Barbourville
52nd — Bell County, Middlesboro, Pineville, Red Bird

14th Region
53rd — Harlan County, Letcher Central, Harlan, Jenkins
54th — Perry Central, Hazard, Leslie County, Buckhorn
55th — Breathitt County, Wolfe County, Jackson, Riverside Christian
56th — Powell County, Estill County, Owsley County, Lee County

15th Region
57th
Johnson Central, Paintsville, Magoffin County, Lawrence County
58th
Prestonsburg, Floyd Central, Knott Central, Cordia, JBS
59th
Betsy Lane, Pikeville, Shelby Valley,  East Ridge
60th
Belfry, Phelps, Pike Central, Sheldon Clark

I like what you did for the 51st district. Its not Knox Central's fault, but I never understood a district with a 4A school and three 1A schools.