Kentucky K–6 academic standards
- Standards
- 2,045
- Subjects
- 11
- Source documents
- 7
- Sources last checked
- August 26, 2026
Core academics
English language arts
513 standardsKentucky Academic Standards Reading and Writing October 2025 · adopted 2025
Mathematics
278 standardsKentucky Academic Standards: Mathematics · adopted 2019
Science
92 standardsKentucky Academic Standards for Science · adopted 2022
Social studies
235 standardsKentucky Academic Standards: Social Studies · adopted 2022
The arts
Visual art
105 standardsKentucky Academic Standards for Visual and Performing Arts (2024) · adopted 2024
Music
136 standardsKentucky Academic Standards for Visual and Performing Arts (2024) · adopted 2024
Dance
140 standardsKentucky Academic Standards for Visual and Performing Arts (2024) · adopted 2024
Theatre
157 standardsKentucky Academic Standards for Visual and Performing Arts (2024) · adopted 2024
Media arts
119 standardsKentucky Academic Standards for Visual and Performing Arts (2024) · adopted 2024
Specials
Health
130 standardsKentucky Academic Standards Health Education June 2025 · adopted 2025
Technology
140 standardsKentucky Academic Standards for Technology (2020) · adopted 2020
Social-emotional learning
None publishedKentucky publishes no adopted K-6 social-emotional-learning academic standards.
Sources
Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) / Kentucky Board of Education. The Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) are adopted by administrative regulation in 704 KAR Chapter 8, one regulation per subject (8:020 Reading and Writing, 8:030 Health Education, 8:040 Mathematics, 8:060 Social Studies, 8:090 Technology, 8:120 Science, 8:130 Visual and Performing Arts). Standard text is stored verbatim. Math and Reading & Writing are Kentucky's own revisions of the Common Core State Standards (KY-prefixed and reworded); Science is Kentucky's adaptation of NGSS (grade-6 = the NGSS middle-school band, regraded, with a few KY edits); Social Studies is Kentucky's own inquiry/discipline standards; Health is organized under the eight NHES standards.
Standard text here is reproduced from those documents. We do not rewrite, renumber or reword a standard. Where a source is ambiguous or has been revised since we read it, the state’s document is the authority.