The mission of the Kenton County School District is to provide a world-class education ensuring ALL students are transition ready and prepared for the 21st Century Economy. To support the KCSD mission, there are two goals:  Transition Readiness Rate of 100% and an Attendance Rate at 96.25%.  KCSD students are provided with a wide range of opportunities to be able to obtain Transition Readiness. Within the KCSD Transition Ready model, emphasis is placed on being college and/or career ready at all levels. A commonality for college readiness at all levels (elementary, middle, and high) is earning a GPA of a 2.8 or higher, and advanced course work.  Career ready components are centered on internships, attendance, dual credit, volunteer opportunities, and military enlistment. 

Within Pillar 2 of our Community Based Accountability System, we monitor the success of our transition readiness programs and look for ways to constantly provide more opportunities to our students.

Transition Readiness in the KCSD is defined as ensuring all students are prepared with the knowledge, skills and dispositions to be transition ready. Within the KCSD Transition Readiness model, one can find embedded the six traits of the Kentucky Portrait of a Learner:  Engaged Citizen, Critical Thinker, Effective Communicator, Empowered Learner, Creative Contributor, and Productive Collaborator.  The KCSD Transition Ready model is comprehensive across all grade levels and allows for opportunities for students to partake in experiences that will benefit ALL students leading to overall college and/or career readiness.  The Transition Ready model is designed to display college and career readiness through multiple measures.  Some examples (including but not limited to) of alignment with the Kentucky Portrait of a Learner are engaged citizens through community service and workplace learning, critical thinkers as demonstrated through advanced course work, effective communicators and creative contributors through internships and extra/co-curricular activities, empowered learners through meeting standardized testing benchmarks and 90% or higher attendance rates, and productive collaborators through enlisting in the military or passing the ASVAB.  As one can see, students are offered opportunities within both college and career ready indicators both inside and beyond the classroom to enhance their development within the six traits of the KCSD Portrait of a Graduate. Additionally, these six traits are embedded in our CBAS model to ensure that every KCSD child has the requisite skills for post-secondary success.