The educational commitment by the school system doesn't begin with kindergarten or end with senior high school commencement. Students at the Paris Independent School System's three facilities are equally well served. The total enrollment at Paris Elementary School, Paris Middle School, and Paris High School is about 900 and Superintendent Ron Hickey feels that this gives the system an academy-like setting. Both local school systems have embraced the newest technological advances in teaching students. Teacher and staff from all three city schools have recently attended training sessions to help them use the newest technology more effectively, using a grant from the Central Kentucky Education Cooperative.
Private education is also available in Bourbon County.
Two century-old institutions still going strong are St. Mary's School and Millersburg Military Institute. St. Mary's is a parochial elementary school serving grades one through six. The school has been in continuous operation since 1886 and currently serves 77 students in the school building located on Main Street Paris. Millersburg Military Institute is a co-educational day and boarding school for grades six through twelve, located in Millersburg. Since the school opened in 1893, it has provided an environment in which students are challenged to reach the limits of their intellectual abilities in a highly structured setting.