For more than a century, Lexington Public Schools has viewed learning as a life-long process while providing numerous educational opportunities for all students. The district is constantly reviewing, studying, and implementing standards based material, and researched based instructional strategies in order to provide a balanced educational foundation for every student. Lexington Public Schools supports and instructs rigorous academic standards. Continuous Improvement Goals are based upon what data suggests are the students’ needs, thus staff development is focused on those needs. The schools as well as the community have gone through the process of rapid ethnic diversification and are the recipients of the rich cultural benefits.