Shelby County High School’s latest athletic expansion moves practice under a roof, adding an indoor turf field and a separate baseball and softball building to a campus that has been improving its fields and broadening its sports offerings.
The district broke ground November 12 on the two facilities. Their designs bring together the space to train and the rooms that support it: locker rooms, restrooms and storage alongside the baseball and softball practice area, and an indoor playing surface in the multipurpose building.
The turf layout calls for a 45-by-50-yard football field with a standard 10-yard end zone, according to the district’s facilities plan. Restrooms accessible from outside would serve the existing tennis courts, extending the building’s usefulness beyond the activities taking place inside.
WLKY reports Shelby County High School’s $10 million project targets fall 2027, with Superintendent Josh Matthews anticipating seven-day use, including band and physical education.
That wider range of uses fits a school whose athletics program has been expanding. Its 2024–25 report to the Kentucky High School Athletic Association lists boys’ and girls’ lacrosse and boys’ volleyball among recently added offerings.
The indoor work also follows recent investment outdoors. The same school report says a new softball field was completed in February 2025. It outlines further improvements to locker rooms and the weight room. The new buildings would add covered training areas to that sequence of outdoor and support-space improvements.
The school board retained its 71.4-cent property-tax rate for 2026–27 in a unanimous September 3 vote, while projecting increased revenue. That districtwide decision does not identify how the athletic project will be financed. The project-specific funding breakdown and annual operating cost remain unverified.