CCSD Receives $1.3 Million Grant for Literacy Resources

Calloway County Schools has received the 2025 Kentucky Comprehensive Literacy Grant award from the Kentucky Department of Education. The grant totals $1.3 million through 2028, with an initial award of $260,000 in June. 

"We are grateful and excited for this literacy grant," said Superintendent Tres Settle. "Literacy is our top academic priority and we have made incredible progress over the last few years recovering from the pandemic. This grant will allow us to continue improve our resources and strategies to ensure all students can achieve high levels of literacy success."

The grant funds are restricted and can only be used for purchasing high-quality instructional resources, job-embedded curriculum based professional learning, family engagement in literacy development, and other associated costs.

The grant funds must be allocated on all levels - early childhood, elementary, middle, and high. All Calloway County District schools will benefit from the grant. In addition, the grant includes local childcare partners Busy Bees, Under the Son, Milestones, and Lily Pad, in addition to Calloway County Preschool.

Thirty-nine of the state's 173 school districts were awarded in the competitive grant process.