A new start time plan passed by a narrow margin on Tuesday, May 7 during a JCPS Board of Education meeting. The board presented two scenarios, and passed the first option 4-3. The vote included a caveat that a new plan be presented for the 2025-2026 school year by December 1 of this year.
The new start time plan consolidates all JCPS schools into three start times: 7:30 a.m., 8:40 a.m., and 9:40 a.m. Option one was marginally less efficient than option two, but required fewer schools to change their start times.
A full list of the new start times can be found below:
Elementary
Start time: 7:30 a.m., Ending time: 2:10 p.m.
Auburndale
Blake
Bloom
Camp Taylor
Cane Run
Chancey
Cochrane
Crums Lane
Dixie
Gutermuth
Hite
Layne
Lowe
Mill Creek
Norton
Sanders
St. Matthews
Stonestreet
Trunnell
Tully
Watterson
Wilder
Wilkerson
Wilt
Zachary Taylor
Start time: 8:40 a.m., Ending time: 3:20 p.m.
Audubon
Brandeis
Carter
Coleridge-Taylor
Foster
Greathouse
Hawthrone
Lincoln
Schaffner
Stopher
Young
Start time: 9:40 a.m., Ending time: 4:20 p.m.
Alex Kennedy
Atkinson
Bates
Blue Lick
Bower
Breckinridge Franklin
Byck
Chenoweth
Cochran
Coral Ridge
Dunn
Eisenhower
Engelhard
Fairdale
Farmer
Fern Creek
Field
Frayser
Goldsmith
Greenwood
Hartstern
Hazelwood
Indian Trail
Jacob
Jeffersontown
Jeffersontown Road
Kennedy
Kenwood
Kerrick
King
Klondike
Laukhuf
Luhr
Maupin
Mc-Ferran
Medora
Middletown
Minors Lane
Norton Commons
Okolona
Perry
Portland
Price
Rangeland
Rutherford
Semple
Shacklette
Shelby
Slaughter
Smyrna
Wellington
Middle school
Start time: 7:30 a.m., Ending time: 2:10 p.m.
Barret
Conway
Echo Trail
Grace James
JCTMS
Johnson
Knight
Lassiter
Minor Daniels
Moore
Ramsey
Stuart
W.E.B. DuBois
Start time: 8:40 a.m., Ending time: 3:20 p.m.
Carrithers
Crosby
Farmsley
Highland
Hudson
Krammerer
Meyzeek
Newburg
Noe
Olmsted North
Olmsted South
TJMS
Shawnee
Wesport
Western
High school
Start time: 7:30 a.m., Ending time: 2:10 p.m.
Atherton
Breckinridge Metro
Butler
Central
duPont Manual
Grace James
Louisville Male
Moore
Minor Daniels
W.E.B. DuBois
Western
Start time: 8:40 a.m., Ending time: 3:20 p.m.
Ballard
Doss
Eastern
Fairdale
Fern Creek
Iroquois
Jeffersontown
Pleasure Ridge Park
Seneca
Shawnee
Southern
Valley
Waggener
Specialty
Start time: 7:30 a.m., Ending time: 2:10 p.m.
Binet
Liberty
Newcomer
Phoenix
TAPP
Start time: 8:40 a.m., Ending time: 3:20 p.m.
Mary Ryan
Waller-Williams
Start time: 9:40 a.m., Ending time: 4:20 p.m.
Churchill Park