School Year 2023-2024

Poplar Bluff High School is one of five schools in Missouri to receive a national award for cultivating a climate where students with and without intellectual disabilities feel welcomed, both in

The HVAC-R program of the Poplar Bluff Technical Career Center has secured its second five-figure competitive grant in recent months in a continued effort to align the training facility with modern

Parker Hicks earns prestigious 2024 Missouri Citizenship Award Poplar Bluff High School senior Parker Hicks was selected among 15 students across the state to receive the Award for Outstanding

Poplar Bluff High School has been introducing lamb meat to family and consumer sciences students with the aid of a $400 grant secured earlier this academic year through the Missouri Sheep

The Poplar Bluff R-I Transportation Department recognized its driver of the year during a special luncheon provided for bus drivers to coincide with National School Bus Driver Appreciation Day. “As

Eugene Field hosted its 11th annual Leadership Day on Friday, April 19, themed “in our leadership era,” a nod to pop icon Taylor Swift’s ‘eras tour,’ before a full house of community leaders and

Poplar Bluff High School has been awarded $50,000 to help establish three new pathways in lucrative career fields under Project Lead the Way, bridging ancillary programming already in place across

Oak Grove Elementary School hosted its annual Famous Missourians Living Museum on Thursday, March 28 – the culmination of several weeks of preparation and the first major research project for the

Poplar Bluff High School will host the Missouri Association of Student Councils State Convention next year, a three-day workshop projected to bring to the community 1,000 students and 100

Vintage PBHS postcard forwarded to superintendent by California elder A 95-year-old man from California mailed the district a postcard of a historic Poplar Bluff school building as part of his

Lake Road Elementary was able to pay for its yearbooks with kindness this school year. The student yearbook club revived a former school tradition, after looking through old yearbooks, and held a

An Oak Grove student ended up facing off against a schoolmate in the final round of the 12th annual Spelling Bee for third graders, sponsored by the Butler County Community Resource Council. Clara

The Poplar Bluff Technical Career Center incorporated a six-axis robotic arm into its computer integrated manufacturing class with a $27,000 Delta Workforce grant awarded at the end of last school

Elementary students across the district enjoyed sampling fruit smoothies, many for the first time, but had to burn some calories beforehand in order to help mix the refreshment. Chartwells

Educators say a new elective revolving around growing plants is breaking down barriers between regular and special education at Poplar Bluff Junior High. Plantastic is demonstrating something that

Nortek has donated seven packaged heating and cooling systems, valued at $35,000, to the Poplar Bluff Technical Career Center in what company officials say is the start of a long-term partnership

The R-I Athletic Department is selling 11x14 prints of an acrylic painting of a Mules helmet commissioned to the Poplar Bluff school system last month as a fundraiser by a local Renaissance

Ribbon cutting held for locally-built Junior High Activity Center A few dozen school supporters and those instrumental in the project helped celebrate the ribbon cutting for the 8,700-square-foot

Poplar Bluff High School hosted its inaugural health fair on Friday, Jan. 26, as the first step of a grant-funded initiative designed to expose students to lucrative careers in the health care

The Child Concern of Butler County donated $5,000 to Poplar Bluff Schools from revenue of its recent building sale in an effort to stock ‘giving closets’ across the district prior to the holiday

At least one R-I teacher has been named a McDonald’s Outstanding Educator annually since the advent of the regional recognition program four years ago. Poplar Bluff native Crystal Huddleston, a

Oak Grove’s ‘Jingle Jog’ continues to grow Vehicles ranged from a Lamborghini to a Trident spray rig in the ceremony that served to kick off Oak Grove’s 19th annual Jingle Jog, featuring 36 parade

It wasn’t quite “Supermarket Sweep,” but it felt like the home improvement version of the game show last week at the Poplar Bluff Technical Career Center. TCC instructors picked up approximately

The Poplar Bluff School Foundation unanimously approved $3,000 outside of classroom budgets, the majority of teacher grants submitted, in its annual Innovative Educational Project program during a

A Lake Road Elementary student won the Math Counts championship last week, advancing among hundreds of fourth graders across the district. Chance Goins answered 59 of 60 possible multiplication