Warren Central High School, 559 Morgantown Road: grades 9-12, 1,070 students in 2024-25, rated orange by Kentucky in 2025-26.

Last checked Oct. 16, 2026. Sources: the Warren Central High School website, Warren County Public Schools (www.warrencountyschools.org), the Kentucky Department of Education’s 2025-26 accountability datasets, the Kentucky School Report Card, the KHSAA’s 2025-26 football alignment and the federal NCES school directory.

Warren Central High School is a Warren County Public Schools high school serving ninth through 12th grade.

Who to call

Principal

Principal Colton Isaacs, according to the school’s website, where the principal’s message is signed.

Enrollment and teachers

The federal NCES directory counted 1,070 students at Warren Central in the 2024-25 school year, with 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 15.7 students per teacher. The state’s report card has the school’s own current enrollment and staffing figures.

State report card

Kentucky rated Warren Central High School orange for 2025-26, with an overall score of 59.7, in the Kentucky Department of Education’s 2025-26 accountability data, released Oct. 14, 2026. The state average for high schools was 67.5 (yellow), and WCPS’s high school level scored 73.9 (green).

Kentucky Summative Assessment results for 2025-26, share of all tested students scoring proficient or distinguished:

Subject Warren Central WCPS high school level Kentucky
Reading 38% 54% 49%
Math 23% 44% 39%
Science 13% 23% 23%

The four-year graduation rate was 96.4% and the five-year rate 96.1%, in the state’s 2025-26 graduation file, against 94.1% and 94.5% statewide.

The 2025-26 file also lists Warren Central for Targeted Support and Improvement (TSI), a federal classification, because of results for one student group: English learners, including students monitored after leaving English learner services.

Kentucky’s system scores six indicators, from reading and math test results to school climate and safety, plus postsecondary readiness and graduation for high schools. “Color ratings include five performance levels from highest to lowest, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange and Red,” the Department of Education says. The full report, with every student group, is on the Kentucky School Report Card for Warren Central High School.

Attendance zone and feeder schools

Warren County Public Schools serves the county outside the Bowling Green Independent district, including large parts of the city. Zones do not follow city limits.

Warren Central is the high school of the Warren Central area, according to the district’s Warren Central Area page. The area’s middle school is Henry F. Moss Middle School and its elementary schools are Jennings Creek Elementary, Lost River Elementary, Rockfield Elementary and Warren Elementary.

The area page links each school’s bus routes. To check one address, use the district’s School Attendance Area map, linked from its Bus Routes/School Attendance Area page. Some families in the Warren Central area live outside Bowling Green; inside the city, part of the area is in the Bowling Green Independent district instead, so check both.

Our neighborhood guides name Warren Central as a school for Delafield; the neighborhoods guide has the rest of the city.

Sports and activities

Warren Central plays football in Class 5A, District 2 for the 2025 and 2026 seasons, under the alignment the KHSAA Board of Control adopted May 9, 2024. The board adopted the February 2024 draft with moves that did not touch this district, which puts it with Barren County, Bowling Green, Grayson County, Greenwood and Ohio County.

The school’s WCHS Athletics site lists archery, baseball, bowling, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer, cheerleading, cross country, dance, esports, football, golf, softball, swimming, tennis, track, volleyball and wrestling.

Warren Central represented the 4th Region at the 2026 UK HealthCare Boys’ Sweet Sixteen, according to the KHSAA basketball page, and the school’s home page notes its 2022-23 boys’ Sweet Sixteen state championship.

Schedules and results: our Friday night football page and the scoreboard.

Calendar

Next dates from the district’s 2026-27 calendar:

  • Monday, Nov. 2: PLC day, no school for students
  • Tuesday, Nov. 3: Election Day, no school
  • Nov. 25-27: Thanksgiving break
  • Dec. 21 to Jan. 1: winter break
  • Monday, Jan. 4, 2027: PLC day, no school for students
  • April 5-9, 2027: spring break
  • Tuesday, May 25, 2027: last day for students

For start and dismissal times, call the front office at 270-842-7302.

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Warren Central serve?

Ninth through 12th grade. It is part of Warren County Public Schools.

How is Warren Central rated on the Kentucky School Report Card?

Orange, with an overall score of 59.7 in the state’s 2025-26 results. The state average for high schools was 67.5.

Which schools feed Warren Central?

Henry F. Moss Middle School and the elementary schools of the Warren Central area: Jennings Creek Elementary, Lost River Elementary, Rockfield Elementary, Warren Elementary.

Who is the principal of Warren Central?

Colton Isaacs, according to the school’s website on Oct. 16, 2026.