Join us in celebrating Paintsville High School senior, Farah AnElizabeth Gambill! 🎓
Farah has reached an incredible milestone—earning Associate Degrees in Arts, Science, and Applied Science (Education), all while maintaining a perfect 4.0 GPA ahead of her high school graduation on May 22.
Next stop: the University of Kentucky, where she’ll join the College of Engineering this fall.
Way to go, Farah! #ClassOf2026 #FutureEngineer #UKyBound
EXCITING NEWS! Make sure to get your name and your children's names (ages 2 to 12th grade) on the list for the Summer Feeding program so we can prepare summer reading book packs for your family!
Add names here: https://forms.gle/5Yq19Tf6tAQhqEeeA
Add names here: https://forms.gle/5Yq19Tf6tAQhqEeeA
We want to hear from YOU! 🌞
As we plan for this year’s Summer Feed Program, your input is incredibly important to help us better serve our community’s children ages 2 to grade senior in high school.
Please take a moment to complete this short survey:
👉 https://forms.gle/kVGPPKtDrwzc1L5k9
Your feedback will help us approximate participation and allow us to maximize your program experience this summer.
Thank you for taking the time to make a difference in our community! 💙
As we plan for this year’s Summer Feed Program, your input is incredibly important to help us better serve our community’s children ages 2 to grade senior in high school.
Please take a moment to complete this short survey:
👉 https://forms.gle/kVGPPKtDrwzc1L5k9
Your feedback will help us approximate participation and allow us to maximize your program experience this summer.
Thank you for taking the time to make a difference in our community! 💙
In order to have a smooth roll-out of the safer two-way communication between parents, students, teachers, coaches, and administrators, please download the Paintsville Independent Schools app.
Parents: Log in with your email address or phone number of file in parent portal.
Teachers, Administrators, and Students: Log in with Single-Sign-On Google using your school email address.
!IMPORTANT STEP! Enable notifications by clicking MORE in the bottom right corner, then click the settings GEAR in the upper right corner, then click NOTIFICATION PREFERENCES, and toggle ON everything in the list (groups, messages, & announcements).
Parents: Log in with your email address or phone number of file in parent portal.
Teachers, Administrators, and Students: Log in with Single-Sign-On Google using your school email address.
!IMPORTANT STEP! Enable notifications by clicking MORE in the bottom right corner, then click the settings GEAR in the upper right corner, then click NOTIFICATION PREFERENCES, and toggle ON everything in the list (groups, messages, & announcements).
Today we recognize School Principal Day and the important role school leaders play in supporting students and their colleagues.
We acknowledge Chester McCoy, Principal of Paintsville High School, and Kristy Frazier, Principal of Paintsville Elementary, for their service to our schools. Being a principal comes with many challenges, and we appreciate the time and effort it takes to lead each day.
Thank you for your work and dedication to Paintsville’s students and schools.
#SchoolPrincipalDay #PaintsvillePride
We acknowledge Chester McCoy, Principal of Paintsville High School, and Kristy Frazier, Principal of Paintsville Elementary, for their service to our schools. Being a principal comes with many challenges, and we appreciate the time and effort it takes to lead each day.
Thank you for your work and dedication to Paintsville’s students and schools.
#SchoolPrincipalDay #PaintsvillePride
The May lunch menu is here!
Adults, you have one more day to complete the online safety challenge that allows your child to win a prize at school! Click here for the challenge!
https://cybersafeschool.org/kyjohnpaint?fbclid=IwdGRleARgunRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeS8COej1Ll113AyJU7s9Z40Zkk5cgw-1PVvRT-3436rkU3t5YOiHg5EaaPiY_aem_U1kApC1wLfcBI8-uf-DrBA
📚💙 Another great benefit of our KYCL25 grant—our Community Book Club! 💙📚
Join us for our next meeting on May 7 at 6:00 PM in the PHS Library. We’ll be discussing A Dark Room in Glitterball City by David Domine.
Didn’t grab a free copy? No problem—you can check it out for free on Hoopla or Libby with your Johnson County Public Library card!
Come hang out, enjoy some snacks, and take advantage of free child care. We’d love to see you there! 💙
Join us for our next meeting on May 7 at 6:00 PM in the PHS Library. We’ll be discussing A Dark Room in Glitterball City by David Domine.
Didn’t grab a free copy? No problem—you can check it out for free on Hoopla or Libby with your Johnson County Public Library card!
Come hang out, enjoy some snacks, and take advantage of free child care. We’d love to see you there! 💙
Tomorrow at 5:00 PM, parents/guardians will receive a text message and email from Apptegy inviting them to enroll in “Rooms.” This is not a scam.
The Paintsville Independent Schools app is powered by Apptegy and includes “Rooms,” a secure and trackable platform where teachers, students, and parents can communicate with one another.
When you receive the message from Apptegy, please complete the setup process. If you do not receive a text or email, please update your contact information in Infinite Campus.
To get a head start, you may download the “Paintsville Independent Schools” app from the app store and enable all notifications. The app icon is shown in the photo.
The Paintsville Independent Schools app is powered by Apptegy and includes “Rooms,” a secure and trackable platform where teachers, students, and parents can communicate with one another.
When you receive the message from Apptegy, please complete the setup process. If you do not receive a text or email, please update your contact information in Infinite Campus.
To get a head start, you may download the “Paintsville Independent Schools” app from the app store and enable all notifications. The app icon is shown in the photo.
🌎 Earth Day — April 22, 2026 🌎
Fun on the farm at the Mountain HomePlace!
🌎 Earth Day — April 22, 2026 🌎
Earth Day is a global event dedicated to raising awareness about protecting our environment and encouraging actions that help keep our planet clean and healthy for future generations.
Today, students from Paintsville High School visited the Mountain HomePlace to give back to their community by volunteering their time. They worked hard cleaning up garbage, pulling weeds, and discussing the importance of leaving the environment better than they found it.
Thank you to these students for your dedication and hard work in making a positive impact!
Paintsville High School is proud to share that our Math and STEAM teacher, Mrs. Amanda Baker, was selected by KDE to serve on the Math Standards Review Team. This week, she worked alongside educators from across the state to help revise the Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics.
We are incredibly proud of Mrs. Baker’s leadership and dedication to advancing math education—not just for our students, but for students across Kentucky!
Pictured here is Mrs. Baker with the Middle School Advisory Panel.
Our June 4th Community Book Club Selection is "Bluegrass: A True Story of Murder in Kentucky!"
Request your FREE copy here and we will email when it is available for pickup: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfaMwyU_47JtdP8sDU4ITMrkA-pFtinCKpTrzvTjmo_mUJLuA/viewform?usp=dialog
A shocking investigation into a true crime that tore a town apart—the violent murder of a young coed in Kentucky, the innocent boy who was jailed for the crime, and a small Southern community filled with haunting, unforgettable characters.
Katie Autry was a foster child from a tiny village in Kentucky; a little awkward, but always with the biggest smile on her high school cheerleading squad. In September 2002, she matriculated as a freshman at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, majoring in the dental program. She worked days at the smoothie shop, nights at the local strip club, and fell in love with a football player who wouldn’t date her. On the morning of May 4, 2003, Katie Autry was raped, stabbed, sprayed with hairspray, and set on fire in her own dormitory room.
In telling the true story of this shocking crime, William Van Meter describes the devastation of not one but three families. Two young men are jailed for the crime: DNA evidence places Stephen Soules, an unemployed, mixed-race high school dropout, at the scene; and Lucas Goodrum, a twenty-one-year-old pot dealer with an ex-wife, a girlfriend still in high school, and a history of domestic abuse, is held by an ever-changing confession. The friends of the suspects and the foster and birth families of the victim form complex and warring social nets that are cast across town. And a small southern community, populated by eccentrics of every socioeconomic class, from dirt-poor to millionaire, responds to the horror.
With the keen eye of a talented young journalist returning to his southern roots, Van Meter paints a vivid portrait of the town, the characters who fill it, and the simmering class conflicts that made an injustice like this not only possible, but inevitable. Like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Bluegrass is redolent with atmosphere, dark tension, and lush landscapes.
Request your FREE copy here and we will email when it is available for pickup: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfaMwyU_47JtdP8sDU4ITMrkA-pFtinCKpTrzvTjmo_mUJLuA/viewform?usp=dialog
A shocking investigation into a true crime that tore a town apart—the violent murder of a young coed in Kentucky, the innocent boy who was jailed for the crime, and a small Southern community filled with haunting, unforgettable characters.
Katie Autry was a foster child from a tiny village in Kentucky; a little awkward, but always with the biggest smile on her high school cheerleading squad. In September 2002, she matriculated as a freshman at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, majoring in the dental program. She worked days at the smoothie shop, nights at the local strip club, and fell in love with a football player who wouldn’t date her. On the morning of May 4, 2003, Katie Autry was raped, stabbed, sprayed with hairspray, and set on fire in her own dormitory room.
In telling the true story of this shocking crime, William Van Meter describes the devastation of not one but three families. Two young men are jailed for the crime: DNA evidence places Stephen Soules, an unemployed, mixed-race high school dropout, at the scene; and Lucas Goodrum, a twenty-one-year-old pot dealer with an ex-wife, a girlfriend still in high school, and a history of domestic abuse, is held by an ever-changing confession. The friends of the suspects and the foster and birth families of the victim form complex and warring social nets that are cast across town. And a small southern community, populated by eccentrics of every socioeconomic class, from dirt-poor to millionaire, responds to the horror.
With the keen eye of a talented young journalist returning to his southern roots, Van Meter paints a vivid portrait of the town, the characters who fill it, and the simmering class conflicts that made an injustice like this not only possible, but inevitable. Like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Bluegrass is redolent with atmosphere, dark tension, and lush landscapes.
Adults of 8th graders through 11th graders, check out this opportunity for your child to attend Scrubs Camp:
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Students in Biomedical Science: Human Body Systems class (7th period) used EKG sensors to record their heart's electrical activity.
Students in Biomedical Science: Human Body Systems class (6th period) used EKG sensors to record their heart's electrical activity.
📚 Join Us for Community Book Club! 📚
We’re excited to invite everyone to our Community Book Club meeting tomorrow at 6:00 PM in the PHS Library!
This month’s selection, They All Fall the Same, will spark great conversation—and we’re taking it to the next level…
✨ We will have the incredible opportunity to meet the author, Wes Browne, in person! ✨
Come ready to discuss, ask questions, and enjoy an evening celebrating reading and community. We hope to see you there!
#CommunityBookClub #PHSReads #MeetTheAuthor
Because Paintsville High School uses Dave Ramsey’s Personal Finance curriculum for our students' financial literacy course, our school community has access to FREE live online financial courses!
Take advantage of this great opportunity to build your financial knowledge and skills.
👉 Click here to view this month’s course offerings and register:
https://events.zoom.us/ev/AiwVtJdhvPpcpGYJzGCnSYfFU6EVm9r1GkWhdYVlgbyWENAoKGg3~AsTVxipKKbNiyjBNhPkyR1PYt2oE9T9H4PcIZjtXSkp1jFrIevz11kJCOA
Feel free to share with family and friends!
Take advantage of this great opportunity to build your financial knowledge and skills.
👉 Click here to view this month’s course offerings and register:
https://events.zoom.us/ev/AiwVtJdhvPpcpGYJzGCnSYfFU6EVm9r1GkWhdYVlgbyWENAoKGg3~AsTVxipKKbNiyjBNhPkyR1PYt2oE9T9H4PcIZjtXSkp1jFrIevz11kJCOA
Feel free to share with family and friends!
April lunch menu!
Paintsville High School is proud to announce that sophomore Olivia Sorrell has been selected as a 2026 Rogers Scholar! 🎉 Olivia is among an elite group of students from across Eastern and Southern Kentucky chosen for the prestigious Rogers Scholars program through the Center for Rural Development. This highly competitive program is designed for outstanding sophomores who demonstrate strong leadership potential and a commitment to their communities. As a Rogers Scholar, Olivia will participate in an intensive, week-long summer experience focused on leadership development, teamwork, and career exploration in fields such as healthcare, engineering, and entrepreneurship.  In addition to gaining valuable real-world skills and connections, Rogers Scholars become eligible for exclusive college scholarship opportunities at participating universities—opening doors for future success.  We are incredibly proud of Olivia for this outstanding achievement and know she will represent Paintsville with excellence! #TigerPride #RogersScholars #FutureLeader
