📱 New KCS App: Tips for Parents!

Our new KCS app makes staying connected with your child’s school easier than ever! Here are a few quick tips to get the most out of it:

1️⃣ Favorite Your Student’s School – Make sure your child’s school is marked as a favorite so you can access it quickly. You can favorite multiple schools so you can easily flip back and forth between multiple schools.

2️⃣ Set the Default School – Change your default school so when you open the app, your child’s school appears first instead of the district page.

3️⃣ Explore the Menu – Find important info like documents, lunch menus, the school calendar, and the online attendance excuse form—all in one place!

Check out the images below for step-by-step instructions. 👇
4 days ago, Kanawha County Schools
On the home screen of the KCS app you can change schools, favorite schools, change the default school, and find important documents.
You are able to favorite multiple schools in the app so you can move back and forth between schools easily.
to set your default organization in the app, click on the gear icon located on the top right of the menu page
to find the app menu, click on the blue box with three white lines in the top left corner of the screen.

Back to School!

12 days ago, Ben Franklin Career Center
Back to School
😎 Don't look now but high school administrators are meeting 🏫 for the first time in the 2025-2026 school year!

🗓️ 36 days and counting until a brand new school year full of opportunity begins!
about 1 month ago, Kanawha County Schools
ben franklin administrators going over information during a training meeting.
herbert hoover high school administrators going through information during a meeting.
capital and riverside high school administrators working together during a meeting.
🎉 Congratulations to two KCS students who have been awarded the 2025 Albert Yanni Scholarship from the West Virginia Department of Education! 🎓👏 🔹 Knowlen Baskin 🔹Natalie Nesselrotte Natalie and Knowlen are among 30 students across the state to receive this 💲2,000 scholarship, which supports education or training connected to their career goals. The award is open to West Virginia seniors in Career Technical Education (CTE) programs who maintain strong academics 📚 and attendance 📅. We’re proud of their hard work and wish them the best in their next steps! 🙌
3 months ago, Kanawha County Schools
graphic congratulating knowlen baskin and natalie nesselrotte for earning the albert yanni scholarship from the WVDE.
🎉 Shoutout to students at Ben Franklin Career Center! 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️ Medical students just wrapped up their externships with WVU Medicine and CAMC and got their certificates of completion this week! 🎓 — Many of them are now starting jobs at the hospitals where they trained! 🙌 🔧 Over in the 4T program, students finished their hands-on training at the Toyota Manufacturing Plant in Buffalo and also got their certificates! 🎉 Some are heading straight into jobs at Toyota, and one student is even continuing their education through a program and is being sponsored by Toyota! 👏📚 We’re so proud of all of you! Your hard work is taking you to amazing places — and this is just the beginning. 💪💙
4 months ago, Kanawha County Schools
two medical students taking a picture together after receiving their certificates.
medical student walking up to receiver her certificate from a representative of wvu medicine.
medical student taking a picture with his ben franklin teacher.
4T student receiving his certificate from representative of toyota.
ben franklin principal welcoming everyone to the ceremony.
medical student walking up to receiver her certificate from a representative of wvu medicine.
medical student walking up to receiver her certificate from a representative of wvu medicine.
4T student receiving his certificate from representative of toyota.
4T student receiving his certificate from representative of toyota.
4T student receiving her certificate from representative of toyota.