Warren County Public Schools students will start school Aug. 10 under a revised school calendar that the district’s Board of Education approved during a meeting Tuesday night. 

Under the change, the number of school days per year will also be reduced from 175 to 174. 

Superintendent Rob Clayton said the move would allow teachers and support staff to “come together and collaborate” for student success. 

“This will provide an opportunity within the school year for those staff members to come together and continue to work at best practices, curriculum, instruction and assessment,” he said.

What that means for students, he said, is that the end of the school year is moved up one day. The last day for students is May 23, barring any inclement weather school closures. 

Because of board approval on another matter, officials will ask the Kentucky Department of Education to reconvene the Local Planning Committee. The committee developed a plan for the district’s facility needs and placed a sixth-grade transition to middle school as a top funding priority. That has since been nixed because of cost concerns related to middle school renovations. 

The new plan is to make a new elementary school in the Warren Central High School area a top priority. Although Clayton said the sixth-grade move isn’t out of the question down the road, it’s “not likely to happen in the foreseeable future,” he said. 

— See today’s Daily News for more coverage on the meeting.