[RunItUpTheGut]

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I think Corbin really depends on those out of district kids. Its why the whole reciprocal deal went to court. Knox County seen the money (and maybe talent) they were losing to every year and wanted those kids at KC and Lynn Camp.
Personally, Im not sure if a school like Corbin or Williamsburg could survive if it weren't for schools like Whitley whos willing to allow kids in the county to attend city schools and not fight it.

If Corbin would have never started annexing into the county, then the new school wouldn't even be in city limits I believe.
I don't know the exact numbers, but I would think Corbin is probably getting around 20% of the Oak Grove kids when its time for middle school. Oak Grove is probably Whitleys best academic elementary school, and parents do not mind sending there kids to there and once they get to middle school, parent would rather send there kids 10 minutes up the road to Corbin, than sending them 20-25 minutes to Whitleys middle school. If it were strict rules that you had to send a kid to the school district you live in, no questions asked, then I would imagine that Corbin would lose atleast 15% of its kids, maybe more. Corbin gets a lot of kids from the falls road area that's out of city limits and down 26 toward Woodbine.
As for Wburg, they are a very small school, but even they have a lot of kids from out of city limits. Its just the way it works.


I do agree with you though. When I was in school, I lived much closer to Corbin High School than I did Whitley, but I did not live inside city limits. It would have made more sense for me to go to Corbin proximity wise, but it just wasn't in the cards for me.

On a side note, look at Bacon Creek for example. Once you get past the nursing home, you are out of city limits. However, you are only a quarter of a mile from Exit 25, and only 5 miles from Corbin High School, but since its outside city limits, most of those kids go to Whitley, and they have to get on the interstate and drive about 15 miles all together to get to Whitley.