• Sixth grade was discontinued in September 1952
• Seventh grade was discontinued in September 1958
• Eighth grade was discontinued in September 1962
• Seventh and eighth grades were reinstated in September 1970
  

After many hours of careful consideration and debate the decision has been reached that it will be to the best interests of the Kentucky Military Institute to operate as a four-year high school.  The Junior School, which now is made up of only eighth graders, will be eliminated beginning in September 1962.  This move will enable the entire corps to operate as one unit and will make it possible for all cadets to be a part of the R.O.T.C. program. (Cadets below the ninth grade are not eligible for membership in the R.O.T.C. courses.') It also permits a more specialized college preparatory program to meet the increasingly, demancling requirements of the colleges.  The vacancies created by the elimination of the eighth grade will be divided among the upper four grades so that the size of the student body will remain at 330 cadets.

The move toward operating only as a high school began when the sixth grade was discontinued in September 1952.  The seventh grade was maintained through the 1956-57 school year and was eliminated in September 1958.

(Source: Kentucadet - April 1962)

Seventh and eighth grades were reinstated in Sept. of 1970.

Mark Griffin collection          

DASPIT, Stanley  Terrance  "Chilibean"  '65
attended: 1960-1965