BULLITT COUNTY, Ky. — Shelby Hutchinson scored honor roll at Nichols Elementary her 5th-grade year. She wants her 1st-grade son to get the same chance.

"It's always been known to be a small school," Hutchinson said. "It's always been a subject, even since I was in school to close Nichols down."

That shutdown is now closer than ever, so Hutchinson organized a protest and joined a PTA meeting pushing to save the school.

In a week, the Bullitt County School Board votes on the district's realignment plan. It's meant to spread students out more evenly across the district, changing hundreds of student assignments. That includes closing Nichols Elementary in the Knob Creek hills west of Shepherdsville, sending those students 12 miles away to Brooks Elementary.

Credit: Jessica Farley, WHAS11

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