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Actually Belfry may see a slight increase in enrollment due to the fact that some of these kids will have to travel an hour or so to get to the new school. There will be some kids/parents that have to decide if they want the long trip or a short trip across the river. IMO the hiring, or rehiring, of Kinder still leads to many athletes looking for greener grass on the kentucky side.

I don't think so. They have a school they can be proud of over there with facilities second to none. Add to that Belfry's ACT scores are near the bottom in KY (Pikeville's near the top BTW) and you really can't argue that the "grass is greener" across the river. Also false that it's an hour to Mingo Central from anywhere in Mingo Co., and anyone near the river can get to MCHS in a very short period of time...spin it how you want, WV students really don't have any reason to attend Belfry and Belfry will forever more get less football players from West Virginia...