District overview
Breathitt County Schools
What Breathitt County's official board agendas and minutes show from October 2025 through July 2026.
What is changing in Breathitt County schools?
The board approves district budgets, programs, calendars, policies, staffing plans, transportation, and school construction.
School buildings
Plans identify roughly $6 million for roof work at Breathitt High and Highland-Turner Elementary.
Student support
The board created a special-education position at Breathitt High and broadened the guidance specialist role to include social work.
Transportation
The district proposed two new buses, including a 52-passenger special-needs bus.
Student rules
The July agenda proposes final approval of the 2026-27 discipline code.
Some posted records are agenda-only, and scanned minutes do not always include the attachments needed to explain final costs and implementation details.
Where the district stands
Enrollment reported in the Census 2024 district finance table.
Census 2024 current spending per pupil; context rather than a meeting finding.
Major projects
Breathitt High and Highland-Turner roof projects
Construction spending underwayThe district advanced major roof replacement and site work at the two schools, then approved later payments and change orders.
- Agenda listed BG-1 amounts totaling about $5.99 million.
- Board approved additional project payments and changes.
- Agenda proposed further contractor and material payments.
Funding
BG-1 project amounts in the official October agenda; later records list contractor and owner-direct payments.
Area technology center and bus garage
Construction continuingThe board repeatedly approved contractor payments and changes for the combined technology-center and bus-garage project.
- Board considered contractor payments and material-sourcing changes.
- Agenda proposed a $50,000 partial payment for remaining work.
Funding
Project payment applications and owner-direct purchase orders; the reviewed records do not state one final total.
Recent news
Reviewed every collected official agenda and every page of the scanned approved minutes, oldest to newest. Each scanned page was rendered at bounded resolution and OCR-reviewed; paired agendas were used to confirm item wording.
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