Education
Students who live in Wilmore could attend one of the following schools. Asbury University and Asbury Theological Seminary have called Wilmore home since 1890 and 1923 respectively.
K - 12
Jessamine County Schools -
Main Site
Jessamine Early Learning Village
Wilmore Elementary - Wilmore
West Jessamine Middle School
- Nicholasville
West Jessamine High School
The Providence School
Higher Education
Asbury University
With a commitment to academic excellence and spiritual vitality, Asbury University encourages more than 1,300 students to study, worship and serve together on a campus located 20 minutes southwest of Lexington in Wilmore, Kentucky. Primarily a four-year, multi-denominational institution, the University has been at the heart of spiritual movements throughout its history. Students come from 44 states and 14 foreign nations, and more than 80 percent of the University’s students live on campus. Classes are taught by experienced scholars, 75 percent of whom hold terminal degrees in their field of study. Asbury University’s 14 academic departments offer more than 40 majors. The University also offers several master's degrees in education, including alternative certification programs. The University also has an adult degree completion program called ACHIEVE. The University provides many opportunities for student involvement both on and off campus. Internships, exchange programs, missions and community service opportunities are also available and are part of the curriculum in nearly every major. More than 20,000 living alumni of the University surround the globe, leading and serving in all 50 states and at least 80 nations.
Asbury Seminary was founded in 1923 “to prepare and send forth a well-trained, sanctified, Spirit-filled, evangelistic ministry” to spread scriptural holiness around the world. Over eighty years later, Asbury has continued to hold to our intended goal upon which we were founded and provide holistic ministerial preparation as an interdenominational institution.
Committed to a vital evangelical Christian faith, Asbury Seminary is rooted in the Wesleyan-Arminian theological tradition which stresses the free grace of God in two ways: First, the grace of God is free in all - not dependent on merit nor on works. Second, the grace of God is free for all - all may be saved. Christ died for the whole world. People are lost, then, not because they cannot be saved, but because they will not be saved.
The Christian faith rests on the personal self-revelation of God in Jesus Christ. Therefore, the Asbury Seminary philosophy of education begins with the Christian faith which centers in God, as revealed inthe person of the Lord Jesus Christ and as witnessed in the Holy Scriptures by the Holy Spirit.
In general, a theological seminary is an institution of higher learning composed of scholarly teachers,leaders and students dedicated to the truth. In the search for truth, Asbury Seminary faculty affirms: Scripture, reason, experience and tradition. While Asbury Seminary stands within the Wesleyan tradition and holds to a clearly defined statement of faith, the faculty commits to academic freedom. Central to all academic work are two commitments: the first to Jesus Christ as Sovereign Lord and the second to the pursuit of truth as a corporate and personal vocation.