Education

Carroll County Schools received a District Award – Platinum 2013 – at this year’s STLP State Championship, held March 28 at Rupp Arena in Lexington. The other school district receiving the award was Madison County.

Carroll County Middle School STLP received one of the Gold School awards. The school submitted a digital scrapbook that showed photo and anecdotal evidence of their STLP program, following the mission of STLP and that the school was meeting each of the program’s six goals.

The Carroll County School District has been recognized nationally for the second consecutive year for ranking among the top school districts in the 2012 Digital School Districts Survey.

The National School Boards Association announced April 13 at its conference in San Diego, Calif., that the Carroll County School District has received second place in the nation in the Small Student Population Category (fewer than 3,000 students). The district ranked fifth in the 2011 survey.