Elementary and Secondary Schools
Scholarship is highly regarded in this community and its three k-12 public school systems, Boyle County Schools, Danville Schools, andKentucky School for the Deaf (operated by the state). All are nationally recognized for their programs, attendance, student achievements, and test scores, which typically exceed national and state-wide norms. The schools also emphasize extra-curricular activities and rate highly in band competitions and sports. A new state-of-the-art performance hall at Danville high school shows a commitment to students who want to develop their talents. With strong athletic programs, both Danville and Boyle County High School football teams repeatedly display their power as division state champions.
For parents who want their children to experience a private school environment, options include Danville Montessori School and Danville Christian Academy.
Parents who provide their children a home school education will find support through parent groups, plus organized phys-ed activities available at The Salvation Army center in Danville and seasonal programs available through the Parks and Recreation Department.
Higher Education
Centre College
Founded in 1819, Centre is Kentucky's highest nationally ranked academic institution. Forbes magazine ranks Centre No. 13 among all U.S. colleges and universities, and U.S. News lists Centre as a top 50 national liberal arts institution. Consumers Digest rates Centre as the best value among all colleges. Centre promises its students personal education and extraordinary success and backs this pledge with a guarantee: intern, study abroad, and graduate in four years, or receive up to an additional year of study tuition free. The College's 150-acre campus is stunning, with 13 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places. Centre students (enrollment about 1,215) represent 36 states and 13 foreign countries. They regularly win the world's top academic awards-Rhodes, Fulbright, Goldwater, Rotary. And Centre's alumni are known as the nation's most loyal, leading the alumni of all other educational institutions over the last 25 years in the percentage who give annual financial support.
Bluegrass Community and Technical College
Bluegrass Community and Technical College (BCTC), Danville Campus is one of the fastest-growing two-year community and technical colleges in the state. Their mission, as a member of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, is to provide excellence in teaching and learning. Day and evening classes are held on campus in a variety of areas including two-year associate degrees(which transfer to virtually all of the 4-year colleges and universities in the state), certificates and diplomas in many technical program fields. In addition to on-campus instruction, on-line classes are also available.
EKU Danville
Eastern Kentucky University's Danville campus offers admission and financial aid counseling and required general education courses for both associate and baccaleaureate degrees. Day and evening classes are held at the facility. On-line classes are also available. The full or major portion of requirements for a degree in several majors can be completed at EKU Danville. It attracts traditional college-age students, as well as working professionals and senior citizens, for accredited and enrichment classes.
Other Campuses within Reach
The University of Kentucky in Lexington and EKU's main campus in Richmond (both of which offer postgraduate degrees), are within an hour’s drive of Boyle County. Other independent four-year liberal arts colleges within an hour’s drive are:
Asbury College
Berea College
Campbellsville University
Midway College
Transylvania University
Bluegrass Community and Technical College
Associate Degrees and Certified Training
Students pursuing a career-directed education have a wide range of choices in Danville and neighboring cities. Public, private, and technical school systems work closely with local industry leaders to provide students with educational experiences that will prepare them to fill types of jobs that are and will be needed.
Midway College Nursing Program
Through a unique arrangement with Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center, Midway College offers accelerated associate degree programs in registered nursing at the hospital's campus in Danville. The hospital's auxiliary organization sponsors fund-raising events to provide scholarships for derserving students who want to study nursing or allied health professions. General education courses and a degree-completion program in elementary education also are available at the Midway/EMRMC campus.
National College of Business and Technology
The Danville campus of this private, Virginia-based school offers associate degrees in business-related courses and medical assisting. Areas of study for diploma programs include: accounting, business and medical office specialist, office computing, and medical transcription, coding, transcription, and pharmacy technician.
Other Campuses within Reach
In addition to other campuses of the Bluegrass Community and Technical College System in the region, a small, private school near Springfield, St. Catharine College, offers associate degrees in arts, science, and applied science, as well as bachelor's degrees in management/supervision and in health sciences management.
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Life-Long Learning
Adult Enrichment
A multitude of classes are available at reasonable cost through a joint program of the public schools, Danville/Boyle/KSD Community Education. The classes are held at different locations in the schools, the Community Arts Center, and at private businesses. The subjects studied range from beginning and intermediate computers and using various software, accounting and bookkeeping, to auto maintenance, creative writing, visual and performing arts, and crafts, such as crochet, or pleasurable skills, such as contract bridge.
An array of enrichment classes is also available at the Danville campus of Eastern Kentucky University. Senior citizens may audit classes at Centre College for a reasonable fee.
Early Childhood Education
Young children in the community may participate in a preschool evaluation program for making sure their motor, cognitive, and language skills and behavioral development are sufficient for a classroom experience. State-certified public preschool is available for children aged three and four within local school systems on a tuition basis, with no cost to children from disadvantaged homes or who have special needs.
Danville Montessori School provides supportive, individualized instruction to encourage personal responsibility, self-control, and independent problem solving for young children, beginning at age three.
Even Start is a family literacy program which combines early childhood and adult education that serves parents of children from birth to age seven.
Wilderness Trace Child Development Center serves children ages birth through five with special needs. Services include developmental intervention, speech/language therapy, physical therapy, and occupational therapy in