[fairplayer]

It's very difficult for Pikeville to recruit anybody unless they move to the city limits or live in a different county. There isn't much housing in the city either. The reason why is the county was losing too many students to Pikeville schools so they capped it. The only way you get in now is in kindergarden, and only depending on the amount of tuition students that have graduated. 10 graduate, 10 get in kindergarden and preference is shown to those who have siblings already in the city school system. This doesn't apply to say Floyd county, which the line is only about 5 miles down the road. You can live there, and pay tuition and go to Pikeville, they haven't capped it. Not yet anyway.