Two Louisville schools are moving as a result of the KHSAA realignment; there could be more to come

LEXINGTON – Two Louisville high schools will be moving and there could be more juggling soon as a result of the state’s realignment Kentucky High School Athletic Association.

The The KHSAA Board of Trustees voted Thursday to relocate DuBois Academy and Portland Christian effective for the 2025-2026 school year.

DuBois Academy will spend the 2024-2025 school year in the 26^e District and seventh region before moving to the 24^e District and sixth region next year. Portland Christian remains in the seventh region and moves from the 25^e Neighborhood to the 28^e Neighborhood.

Athletic directors in the Louisville area wanted to address the realignment after a handful of schools changed addresses since the last major realignment took effect for the 2011-2012 school year. There is currently no plan for a statewide realignment of the affected sports: baseball, basketball, football, softball and volleyball.

The measures approved Thursday came at the recommendation of KHSAA Commissioner Julian Tackett after athletic directors in the Louisville region were unable to reach an agreement.

Manual athletics director David Zuberer, also a member of the KHSAA Board of Control, said ADs in the Louisville region met “at least four or five times” without agreeing on a realignment plan.

Zuberer said one proposal involved moving Male to the Sixth Region and Jeffersontown to the Seventh Region.

“We could all agree on which region everyone should be in,” Zuberer said. “But when it came to the division into districts, no one in that room agreed.”

The Board of Trustees agreed to consider more changes at its Jan. 16 meeting, saying it wanted to wait for more clarity on Evangel Christian’s move. The school, currently located on Taylorsville Road, plans to move to a new campus on Billtown Road next year.

The most likely proposal is that Evangeli Christian moves from the 23rd^rd up to 24^e District and Bullitt East move from the 24^e to the 23^rd.

That would put Bullitt East at 23^rd District that includes county rivals Bullitt Central and North Bullitt, along with Moore and Southern. Bullitt East athletic director Kenny Hughes confirmed that his school would prefer to be in the same district as Bullitt Central and North Bullitt.

New baseball/softball format approved for the Sixth Region

The Board of Supervisors approved a plan for the Sixth Region to adopt a “super-regional” format for its regional baseball and softball games beginning in the spring of 2025.

In a plan led by Fern Creek athletic director Troy Johnson, the super regional will eliminate district tournaments and place all participating teams in a regional tournament that will last two weeks.

In the proposal, Johnson noted that the plan will allow for the elimination of district tournaments “that lose money” and “allow for a more competitive regional tournament with better teams competing for a regional title.”

Seeding for the super regionals will be based on regular season district play. District champions and runners-up will still receive trophies based on regular season results.

Four of the past five Sixth Region softball tournaments have featured quarterfinal losses: Doss in 2019, Iroquois in 2021 and Western in 2023 and 2024.

Johnson said a super-regional format is not being considered for the basketball tournaments.

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Jason Frakes: 502-582-4046; [email protected]; Follow on X @kyhighs.

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This article originally appeared in the Louisville Courier Journal: KHSAA realignment: At least two Louisville schools are moving in 2025-2026