2008 Kentucky Schools to Watch

Belfry Middle School
Belfry, Pike County

Benton Middle School
Benton, Marshall County 

Eastside Middle School 
Mt. Washington, Bullitt County

F. T. Burns Middle School** 
Owensboro, Daviess County

James E. Bazzell Middle School
Scottsville, Allen County

Lloyd B McGuffey Sixth Grade Center
Stanford, Lincoln County

Northern Middle School**
Somerset, Pulaski County

Oldham County Middle School
Buckner, Oldham County

Olmstead Middle School**
Olmstead, Logan County


**Redesignated school, was also a STW in 2005

The goal of Kentucky STW is not to create competition between Kentucky's middle schools, but to find schools to serve as models of academic excellence, developmental responsiveness, social equity, and organizational structures that sustain dynamic improvement and reform. Currently, there are sixteen middle level schools in Kentucky designated as a School to Watch. The program is based on and follows the National Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform Schools to Watch.