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List of schools moving from 4A to 5A

Highlands (454.75)
Nelson County (455.25)
Perry County Central (486.5)
Letcher County Central (492)
Covington Catholic (522.25)
Shelby County (508.25)

With these schools moving up to 5A (Covington and Highlands) some 3A schools like Bell, Central, and Lexington Cath (to name a few) will consider moving to 4A

The only one who may be able to make a legit argument would be Bell County.

Central and LexCath will both have plenty of teams close by from a travel standpoint.

Bell is the only team who has a travel hardship argument as their closest competition would be McCreary Central and Corbin... Bell is looking at a decent trip essentially for any playoff travel. Even then that is a stretch and would solely wreak of teams looking to avoid competition.

Truth be told the way 3A is currently aligned the only teams who would truly be in their best interest to move up to 4A would be Pendleton County and maybe Western Hills. Pendleton literally is an outlier geographically and Western Hills just would simply fit better geographically in another class.