Floyd County Schools (Kentucky)

Floyd County Schools is the school district created to serve the public education needs of Floyd County, Kentucky.

The district has 13 schools serving a total of about six thousand students.

The school district comprises seven elementary schools :

• Allen Elementary School, Allen serving grades PK-8 [2]
• Betsy Layne Elementary School, Betsy Layne serving grades PK-8 [3]
• Duff-Allen Central Elementary School, Eastern serving grades PK-8 [4]
• John M. Stumbo Elementary School, Grethel serving grades PK-8 [5]
• May Valley Elementary School, Martin serving grades PK-5 [6]
• Prestonsburg Elementary School, Prestonsburg serving grades PK-5 [7]
• South Floyd Elementary School, Hi Hat serving grades PK-8

At the end of the 2016–17 school year, McDowell and Osborne Elementary closed. The two schools consolidated into a single school at the campus that was occupied by South Floyd High School, which also closed at that time.[8]

There is one middle school serving grades 6-8:

• James D. Adams Middle School, Prestonsburg [9]

And three high schools serving grades 9-12:

• Floyd Central High School, Eastern
• Betsy Layne High School, Betsy Layne [10]
• Prestonsburg High School, Prestonsburg [11]

At the end of the 2016–17 school year, Allen Central and South Floyd closed and consolidated into the new Floyd Central High School at a new campus in Eastern.[8]

There are also some schools organized for non-traditional learning:

• Floyd County Area Technology Center, Martin, a trade school open to all county high school students. [12]
• Home Instruction Elementary, Prestonsburg [13]
• Home Instruction H.S., Prestonsburg [14]
• Renaissance Learning Center, The local alternative school located in Martin [15]

In 2020, the Floyd County School of Innovation opened in the same building that houses RLC. Students go for half a day to take classes related to STEM.