Over the past few years, the Fort Thomas Independent School District has scored in the higher percentile when looking at test scores. According to LinkNKY, this year, Fort Thomas had the third-highest test
scores in the state, and the highest in NKY with an overall high school indicator rate of 92. Highlands High School scored a 94 in reading and math and a 63 in social studies.
Highlands High School counselor Ann Listerman said, “I’m proud of the students and I’m proud of how they were able to focus and score as well as they did.”
Other schools in the district scored high as well. Highlands Middle School had an overall indicator rate of 85. For math and reading scoring an 88, and for social studies, an 82. As well as all three elementary schools, Moyer, Johnson, and Woodfill scored an overall 84, math and reading 86, and social studies 82.
All of the Fort Thomas schools have similar and impressive scores, compared to other schools such as Beechwood, which falls slightly below Fort Thomas. In regards to the overall indicator rate, Fort Thomas scored 5 points higher than Beechwood.
Superintendent Brian Robinson said, “I feel really good about the progress our school district made and I feel really good about where we are in terms of school accountability. All three of our levels, elementary, middle, and high achieved the highest level of success we can find.”
The ACT scores saw a slight decrease While the 2022-23 score was 23.2, the 2023-24 score was 22.3, a point difference of -0.9. Even with the reduction in score, Fort Thomas is still first in Northern Kentucky.
As promised, the Highlands Class of 2026 has earned exemptions for their Math and English midterms due to scoring higher than the Class of 2025. However, this is only in contention for the students with 6 or fewer absences along with an 80% in both quarters.
Parker Greene (11) expressed her excitement, saying, “I believe that being able to skip a midterm is a great opportunity to encourage students to try harder, I know I did and I’m really happy that my grade was able to score high enough to be able to skip a midterm.”
