LEXINGTON — Two Louisville high schools will be on the move and more juggling could soon occur as a result of realignment by Kentucky High School Athletic Association.

The KHSAA Board of Control voted Thursday to move DuBois Academy and Portland Christian starting in the 2025-26 school year.

DuBois Academy will spend the 2024-25 school year in 26^th District and the seventh region before moving to the 24th^th District and sixth region next year. Portland Christian will remain in Region Seven, moving from 25^th District up to 28^th District.

Louisville-area athletic directors wanted to address the realignment after several schools changed addresses since the last major realignment that took effect for the 2011-12 school year. There is no current plan for a statewide realignment in the sports involved: baseball, basketball, football, softball and volleyball.

The moves approved Thursday came at the recommendation of KHSAA Commissioner Julian Tackett after Louisville-area athletic directors could not reach a consensus.

Director of Athletics David Zuberer, also a member of the KHSAA Board of Control, said Louisville-area ADs have met “at least four or five times” without agreeing on a realignment plan.

Zuberer said one proposal involves moving Male to the sixth region and Jeffersontown to the seventh region.

“We could all agree on what region everyone should be in,” Zuberer said. “But when it came to districting, no one in that room could agree.”

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

The most likely proposal has Evanghel Christian moving from 23^st at 24^th District and Bullitt East move from 24^th at 23^st.

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

New baseball/softball format approved for sixth region

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

In a plan spearheaded by Fern Creek athletic director Troy Johnson, the super regional will eliminate district tournaments and place all participating teams in a two-week regional tournament.

In the proposal, Johnson noted that the plan would eliminate “money-losing” district tournaments 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 last five Sixth Region softball tournaments have included 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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This article originally appeared on the Louisville Courier Journal: KHSAA Region: At least two Louisville schools are moving in 2025-26