Sixty-two Kenton County School District teachers, administrators and staff have enrolled in Kentucky's Numeracy Counts Academy, more than any other district in the state.

Kelly Stone, executive director of the Kentucky Center for Mathematics (KCM), shared the milestone with the district. KCSD posted the announcement on X on Sept. 9, calling Stone's update good news for Kenton County schools. All 62 participants volunteered for the program.

For families with children in K-5 classrooms across the district, the enrollment means dozens of educators are deepening their math instruction skills through a structured, multi-year training. Participants work through modules of research-based math content aimed at strengthening how high-quality instructional resources are used in classrooms, building their own math knowledge and expanding how they teach it.

The Numeracy Counts Academy is a two-year hybrid program for K-5 educators. KCM developed it in partnership with the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE). The format blends in-person summer launch sessions with synchronous and asynchronous virtual learning spread across the school year, according to Kentucky Teacher.

Statewide, the academy can train up to 1,000 K-5 math teachers during its two-year program, Kentucky Teacher reported in March 2025. KCM launched its second cohort in summer 2026. The district's post did not specify whether its 62 participants belong to the first cohort, the second or both.

The academy grew out of House Bill 162, the Kentucky Numeracy Counts Act, which the legislature passed in 2024. The law established that math proficiency is essential for all Kentucky students and set a goal that children build from conceptual understanding to procedural fluency and real-world problem solving, according to KDE.

The two-year commitment means participants who started with the second cohort in summer 2026 would complete the program by summer 2028.