Editing Paducah, Kentucky (section)

==Education==
[[Paducah Public Schools]] operates public schools serving most of the City of Paducah. Three K-5 elementary schools, Clark Elementary School, McNabb Elementary School and Morgan Elementary School, serve the city. All district residents are zoned to Paducah Middle School and [[Paducah Tilghman High School]].<ref>"[http://www.paducah.k12.ky.us/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27&Itemid=101 Our Schools] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721075742/http://www.paducah.k12.ky.us/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27&Itemid=101 |date=July 21, 2011 }}". [[Paducah Public Schools]]. Retrieved on October 17, 2010.</ref>

Parts of the city and surrounding county are instead served by the [[McCracken County Public Schools]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.revenue.ky.gov/NR/rdonlyres/487689F6-F1E9-4A96-BEF9-C0065AE96899/0/McCracken_Paducah_Ind.jpg |title=Paducah Public Schools Boundaries |work=Kentucky Department of Revenue |year=1996 |access-date=May 31, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003050240/http://www.revenue.ky.gov/NR/rdonlyres/487689F6-F1E9-4A96-BEF9-C0065AE96899/0/McCracken_Paducah_Ind.jpg |archive-date=October 3, 2011 |url-status=dead  }} Compare with the current city limits of Paducah, available in [http://transportation.ky.gov/Planning/SPRS%20Maps/Paducah_city.pdf this PDF map] from the [[Kentucky Transportation Cabinet]].</ref> Concord Elementary School and Reidland Elementary/Intermediate serve students through the 5th grade; Lone Oak Elementary School and Hendron–Lone Oak Elementary School end at the third grade, with 4th and 5th grade students in those schools' attendance zones attending Lone Oak Intermediate School. Middle school students in those areas may be zoned into Heath, Lone Oak, or Reidland Middle School. The county district began operating a single, consolidated [[McCracken County High School]] on August 9, 2013. The Paducah city district did not participate in this consolidation and Paducah Tilghman High School remains separate.

Paducah is also home to two private school systems, [[St. Mary High School (Paducah, Kentucky)|St. Mary High School]] and Community Christian Academy.

===Higher education===
[[West Kentucky Community and Technical College]] (WKCTC) is a member of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System and is a public, two-year, degree-granting institution serving the Western Region of Kentucky. There are approximately 6,200 students enrolled at the college.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://westkentucky.kctcs.edu/about/college-at-a-glance/|title=College at a Glance {{!}} WKCTC|website=westkentucky.kctcs.edu|access-date=May 14, 2019}}</ref> WKCTC was rated as one of the top 10 community colleges in the United States by the [[Aspen Institute]] for 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aspeninstitute.org/news/press-release/valencia-college-wins-aspen-prize/|title=Florida's Valencia College Named Top US Community College|website=The Aspen Institute|language=en-US|access-date=May 14, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://highered.aspeninstitute.org/aspen-prize-program/2017-aspen-prize-finalists-past-winners/|title=Past Winners and Finalists|website=The Aspen Institute's College Excellence Program|language=en-US|access-date=May 14, 2019}}</ref>

There is a Paducah campus of the [[University of Kentucky College of Engineering]] located on the WKCTC campus.

There is also a Paducah campus of [[Murray State University]], which offers approximately 20 bachelor's and master's degree programs. It has a {{convert|43000|sqft|sqm|adj=on}} facility located on a {{convert|23|acre|ha|adj=on}} campus adjacent to WKCTC that was opened in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thenews.org/2014/01/17/paducah-regional-campus-opens-lets-first-students-through-doors/|title=Paducah regional campus opens, lets first students through doors|last1=Jeseo|first1=Jared|website=TheNews.org|language=en-US|access-date=May 14, 2019}}</ref>

===Public library===
Paducah has a [[public library|lending library]], the McCracken County Public Library.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://kdla.ky.gov/librarians/pages/librarydirectory.aspx | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190111202017/https://kdla.ky.gov/librarians/pages/librarydirectory.aspx | url-status=dead | archive-date=January 11, 2019 | title=Kentucky Public Library Directory | publisher=Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives | access-date=June 7, 2019}}</ref>