Bullitt County Public Schools Superintendent Jesse Bacon has announced that the district will remain in remote learning through the Thanksgiving holiday. 

The district is planning a new elementary school for the eastern area as a replacement for Old Mill Elementary School. Cate Noble Ward of Studio Kremer Architects reported the district is getting a quality facility for a good investment. The new 800 student elementary school was awarded to Redlee Construction and Development, Inc. in the amount of $19,336,000. 

The District Director of Assessment, Data, and Research, Ms. Jan Stone, and Assistant Superintendent of Student Learning Ms. Adrienne Usher, recently presented the district and high school ACT scores. Both educators noticed gains across the board in all subject areas.

Due to COVID-19, BCPS students have been remote learning from home longer than in the regular classroom setting. Ms. Adrienne Usher, Director of Elementary Education, and Ms. Rachelle Bramlage-Schomburg, Director of Secondary Education, proposed an A/B Rotation Hybrid Scheduled for grades 6-12 to the board members.

As we continue to navigate the 2020-2021 school year, it is important that we provide our families with input on the learning model for students this coming spring semester, beginning on Monday, January 18, 2021, and ending on Tuesday, June 1, 2021. Similar to this past summer, we want to provide the same learning model selection opportunity.

On October 14, the Kentucky Department of Education released annual School Report Card Data, as required by statute and under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). For the 2019-2020 school year, we were only privy to limited assessment and no accountability data. This is due to Kentucky’s COVID-19 Assessment Waiver Request to the U.S. Department of Education, which asked for the majority of state testing and accountability calculations to be suspended for the school year. 

After years of being accustomed to in-person learning, it’s no secret that transitioning and getting used to remote learning can be an obstacle in your students’ education. When we’re in the school building, there are limited distractions: students know they are coming there to learn and fraternize with friends on breaks.

We would like to remind all Bullitt County Public Schools staff and students to continue practicing health and safety habits and social distancing protocols. We have procedures in place to limit contact from student to student on our campuses, but we cannot control what anyone else does outside of the school environment. We need to remember to remain vigilant to the real possibility of being exposed to COVID-19 as we go about our daily lives. 

Beginning Thursday, October 1, the BCPS Department of School Nutrition will be providing an after-hours meal service method for students in the Bullitt Cloud Academy. In addition, this meal service includes non-school-aged children in the home under the age of 19. The service method will provide a week’s worth of meals -- five breakfast and five lunch meals -- to be picked up at one location one day a week. 

The BCPS Department of School Nutrition now has the flexibility from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to operate their food service department under the Summer Feeding Supplement Program (SFSP) policies.

We have prepared this page of FAQs to address questions regarding the upcoming 2020-2021 school year. With the still-present global pandemic, we understand there are many uncertainties and concerns about what is happening now and for the rest of the year. It has been especially challenging to confirm any details for the future as we do not know what tomorrow will look like.

During this pandemic, it has been difficult to continue school traditions due to social distancing and other safety protocols. That is why we are incredibly thankful to still have been able to fill our “Thankful Turkey,” a tradition that debuted during the 2019-2020 school year.