Government directory/Kentucky/Independent school district
U.S. Census government inventory · ID 210370

Fort Thomas Independent.

Independent school district in Kentucky · Census county area: Campbell.

Independent school districtSchool districtFunctioning
School system at a glance

Students, schools, and public money.

Election.org connected this entity to its fiscal year 2024 Census finance record by exact government ID and to its 2024–25 NCES district and school directory by exact agency ID.

3,167students in the finance record
5operating schools connected
$12,843current spending per pupil
Latest official Kentucky governance snapshot

5 district board members—and the school councils below them.

Kentucky’s 2024–25 School Report Card names the district board members and school-based decision-making council participants published for this system. Election.org joined the record by exact three-digit district ID—not by name.

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District board member · 2024–25 snapshot

Clem Fennell

Seat, officer role, term, and current-service status are not published in this file.

Annual source snapshot
District board member · 2024–25 snapshot

David Russell

Seat, officer role, term, and current-service status are not published in this file.

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District board member · 2024–25 snapshot

Jeff Beach

Seat, officer role, term, and current-service status are not published in this file.

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District board member · 2024–25 snapshot

Julie Kuhnhein

Seat, officer role, term, and current-service status are not published in this file.

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District board member · 2024–25 snapshot

Sarah Foster

Seat, officer role, term, and current-service status are not published in this file.

Annual source snapshot
School councils published5
Named council participants36
Source-marked vacancies0
Source-marked exempt schools0
School-level public governance

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The source calls every named participant a “School Based Decision Making Council Member.” It does not identify whether each person serves as a parent, teacher, principal, or another capacity, so Election.org does not infer one.

5 school-level governance records in the 2024–25 snapshot

State school ID 0191760106 published members

Highlands High School

  • Abbe Kuhn
  • David Russell
  • Jaime Richey
  • John Darnell
  • Katie Carelock
  • Matt Ewald
State school ID 0191760118 published members

Highlands Middle School

  • Adam Crozier
  • Amanda Zornada
  • Emily Kelly
  • Erika Volpenhein
  • Frank Twehues
  • Jason Harnish
  • Melissa Baer Stephenson
  • Reckers Lindsey
State school ID 0191760206 published members

Johnson Elementary School

  • Ashley Dikeos
  • Casey Gesenhues
  • Erin Staff
  • Katie Leftin
  • Megan Grainger
  • Sarah Adkins
State school ID 0191760308 published members

Moyer Elementary School

  • Claudia Hils
  • Jason Ayers
  • Jen Bodeker
  • Karin Thomas
  • Kelsey Hogberg
  • Lorita Nivanthi Mihindukulasooriya
  • Nikki Everett
  • Peter Winkler
State school ID 0191760408 published members

Woodfill Elementary School

  • Brittney Hurtt
  • Joanna Fraser
  • John Gesenhues
  • Julieanne Metheny
  • Krissy Richard
  • Natalie Heidrich
  • Shalyn Jones
  • Summer Arthur

Snapshot2024–25 school year

Source checked2026-08-30

Kentucky district ID176

Exact Election.org identity210370

This is an annual historical snapshot, not a claim that every named person remains in office today. The connected file does not establish seats, terms, election method, election results, officer roles, contacts, meeting votes, or exact seat boundaries. “Vacant,” “TBD,” and “Exempt” source values are statuses—not people.

Six years of enrollment and school finance

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Exact federal identifiers connect 6 annual Census records for this system. Source dollars stay visible, while spending changes are also converted to constant 2024 dollars.

Census annual tables ↗
Enrollment3,1671.2% higher than 2019
Current spending / pupil$12,8435.6% lower than 2019 after inflation · 15.8% higher than 2019 nominal
Total expenditure$50.1M26.3% higher than 2019 · nominal
Debt outstanding$32.3M58.1% lower than 2019 · nominal
Enrollment reported by Census
2019: 3,129; 2020: 3,177; 2021: 3,125; 2022: 3,114; 2023: 3,127; 2024: 3,1673,1863,1463,105201920202021202220232024
Current spending per pupil (2024 dollars)
2019: $13,602; 2020: $13,330; 2021: $13,462; 2022: $13,187; 2023: $13,358; 2024: $12,843$13,709$13,223$12,737201920202021202220232024
Funding mix over time

Federal, state, and local shares

20191.9% F51.1% S47.0% L
20201.6% F51.2% S47.2% L
20215.2% F52.8% S41.9% L
20222.2% F52.9% S44.9% L
20232.9% F51.2% S45.9% L
20242.3% F50.0% S47.7% L
View the 2019–2024 values as a table
YearEnrollmentSpending / pupilTotal revenueTotal expenditureDebt
20193,129$11,086$41,189,000$39,659,000$77,125,000
20203,177$10,998$42,838,000$47,172,000$72,498,000
20213,125$11,629$48,039,000$52,970,000$69,105,000
20223,114$12,303$50,290,000$44,595,000$39,653,000
20233,127$12,975$51,094,000$47,134,000$39,159,000
20243,167$12,843$53,649,000$50,109,000$32,331,000

Source-reported nominal dollars. Amount fields are converted from source thousands to dollars. No inflation adjustment is applied. An exact identifier links published source rows; it does not erase consolidations, closures, reorganizations, or other real institutional changes between years. Constant-dollar comparisons use BLS CPI-U series CUUR0000SA0, annual U.S. city average; this is not a local cost-of-living index. Joined by exact Census PID6 or NCES LEAID; names are never used.

Schools this system operates

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Where the money comes from

$53.6M in reported revenue.

Census finance source ↗
Federal2.3%$1.21M
State50.0%$26.8M
Local47.7%$25.6M
Total expenditures$50.1M
Current spending$40.7M
Instruction$24.9M
Support services$13.6M
Capital outlay$6.44M
Debt outstanding$32.3M

Fiscal year 2024. Census source amounts are published in thousands of dollars and converted here to dollars; per-pupil fields are published as dollar amounts. Revenue percentages are reproduced from the source.

District contact

Fort Thomas Independent

Regular public school district that is not a component of a supervisory union

GradesPK12
StatusOpen
Address28 N Ft Thomas Ave, Fort Thomas, KY, 41075
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Still needed for a complete civic record

The federal layer is useful—but it is not the whole school board.

  • Current-service confirmation, board officer roles, exact seats, terms, and present vacancies
  • Election method, next election, candidates, filing rules, and official result history
  • Exact attendance and board-seat boundaries for an address
  • Normalized meeting agendas, minutes, recorded votes, and decision history
  • School-level outcomes, audited contracts and vendors, and inflation-adjusted spending comparisons
The source record

A functioning Census entity.

The Census ACTIVE field is Y for this record.

Census ID
210370
Record type
Independent school district
Classification
School district
School level
Elementary and Secondary
Status
Functioning
Published contact fields

Contact and location

Mailing address28 N. FT. THOMAS AVENUE · FT THOMAS, KY · 41075
Census contact/title fieldSuperintendent
County areaCampbell
Reported websiteNot published

Websites are primarily self-reported and received only limited Census Bureau quality control. County area can mean the area most served or the headquarters county when boundaries cross counties.

Published context

Scale and parent relationship

Estimated enrollment3,1272023

Evidence boundary

What each source proves—and what it does not.

Established by the published records

  • The entity or system appears in the 2025 Census listing.
  • Its Census category, identifier, and functioning/dormant field.
  • Only the location, function, population, enrollment, and contact fields actually published.
  • The Kentucky Department of Education’s annual 2024–25 file reports the district-board names, school-council names, source-marked vacancies, and exempt school rows shown above.

Not established by these records

  • That every person named in the 2024–25 annual snapshot remains in office today, or that every authorized district-board or school-council seat appears.
  • Board officer roles, council participant capacities, election method, terms, exact seat boundaries, candidates, results, contacts, or meeting votes.
  • The exact geographic service boundary or that a reported website remains current.