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In addition, I have always heard that Corbin has excellent academics

Schools like Whitley have greatly closed the gap in the past decade but it's not because corbin is getting worse.
Corbin has pretty much always been a top 10-15 school district in the state. Most other schools in this area have been close to a state takeover at one point or another.

My sibling went to Corbin. We had to pay around 2000 back when we moved out of the city limits for tuition. That same year was my first year of school and my parents put me in Whitley to avoid a second kids tuition or I would have been a corbin alum as well.

Corbin has been and continues to be the standard for excellence in academics in SEKY.
Until recently no other school came close.