The Center Education Foundation recognizes alumni with outstanding accomplishments in their career and/or community service with the Distinguished Alumni Award. Past recipients include Missouri Appeals Court Judge Lisa Hardwick, VML CEO Jon Cook, and renowned actor Gary Neal Johnson. Click the link below to nominate your favorite alumnus! Deadline is February 7th.
https://5il.co/2drjm
Center School is restarting our Center Friends Mentoring Program. This is an opportunity to change the life of a Center student by providing a mentoring relationship with an adult from the community. If you are interested in learning more about how you can participate, click the link below for more information.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScXwWvjQfoseb4xHR9uYmgbfA6z2-KZMPgG_3dmQv7wA4BUNA/viewform
Please join our Center Middle School PTO at a Pancake Breakfast this Saturday to raise funds to support our CMS kids! Good eats, good cause, good friends.
9am - 11am at the Elk's Lodge on 99th Street.
Congratulations on our Center High School SGA completing the 2024 Polar Plunge. While the air temperature wasn't horrible, the water was FRIGID! Note the fire & rescue team standing on ICE at the lake! Our crew braved the elements and raised nearly $3,000 for Special Olympics.
Please join us as we honor the 2024 inductees to the Center High School National Honor Society. The induction will start at 7pm on Wednesday, January 31st in the cafeteria at Center High School. The public is welcome.
The State of Missouri will celebrate reading on the annual Read-In Day on Friday, March 8 th. Here's how it works. Each of our elementary classes have signed up to have readers at specified times during the day on March 8th. We ask parents, community members, and Center staff to sign up to read. At the specified times, readers will go to the classrooms and read a book aloud for the class. We have created a google form for families, community members and staff to sign up to read to a classroom. Once all the slots are filled for a grade level at a particular school, they will no longer show up on the list. This is open for ANY community member to sign up, so please share with friends and family. We want to have a reader for every class in the district! Click below to sign up.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdM_9wx9oaHKOwN5iqKYQqyqYl1eMJgBY2zK9i_Tq4NrnPjkg/viewform
Center High School is hosting a parlimentary debate tournament on Wednesday, February 7th. This is rescheduled due to a weather cancellation last week. We are looking for community volunteers to serve as judges (yes, you can do it even if you have never been to a debate tournament!). Here is the schedule:
3:30 pm arrival and check in
3:45 pm first round topic announced
4:00 pm first round begins
5:00(ish) second round topic announced
5:15 (or 15 minutes after topic announcement) second round begins
6:30 awards
A light supper will be available in the hospitality room 106.
Email Mrs. Bates at kbates@center.k12.mo.us if you can judge and which rounds you will be available.
It's a lot of fun and a great way to support our students!
Announcing an exciting partnership with Children's Mercy and Blue KC to support improved mental health for students in the Center School District. Sharing the news with the media, including HiveTV. More to come.
Due to road conditions, the Center Board of Education meeting this evening will NOT be held in person. It will be a virtual only meeting. Click the link below to see the agenda and instructions on how to view the meeting onlline.
https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/SB_Meetings/ViewMeeting.aspx?S=229&MID=14508
Due to icy road conditions, Center Schools are closed for in-person learning today, Monday January 22. Today will be a virtual learning or AMI day. Students will NOT report to school but will learn at home. Click below for details on Virtual Learning procedures. ALL staff will work remotely today.
https://www.center.k12.mo.us/o/csd/page/inclement-weather-updates#inclementweatherplan
Please stay safe today.
Wednesday, January 31st will be a special night for the Center School District. Both Boys and Girls basketball teams will take on the Grandview Bulldogs. Girls Varsity starts at 5:30pm and Boys Varsity begins at 7:00pm. We will also feature a very special performance by all three of our cheerleading groups - the elementary "mini-cheerleaders" along with the squads from Center Middle and Center High Schools. It's a night not to be missed!!
The Alan Isom Invitational, in its 27th year, is being held at Center High School today. Wrestlers from 15 schools are here for a day of hard work and great competition.
The Center Board of Education will meet in regular session on Monday, January 22nd at 7:00pm. The meeting will be held at Indian Creek Elementary at 9801 Grand Ave and can also be viewed virtually.
Click below to see the agenda as well as the link to view the meeting virtually.
https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/SB_Meetings/ViewMeeting.aspx?S=229&MID=14508
It was a great night in the gym at Center High School last night. There were four basketball games vs. Odessa (girls & boys) and a wonderful performance by our Center Mini-Cheerleaders! The cheerleaders are all students at the four elementary schools in Center. They learned their cheers during a clinic hosted by the Center High School Cheerleading squad under the direction of Ms. Bilie Potts and Ms. Jackie McCree. Lots of parents, grandparents and other family members in attendance cheering them on.
The Yellowjacket Ambassadors, our wonderful group of parents learning how to better support our kids, will be meeting on January 25th at Center Middle School and all families of Center students are invited! Dinner at 5:30 with program at 6pm.
Free dinner, childcare, and a great program to help you support your student's academic growth. Click the link below to register.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSecLbSRgMEXJRdTDL8y_Paq8srrBOd3bqImZsp1kegJFipR6A/viewform
The Center High School class of 2026 (sophomores this year) is hosting a fundraiser at Torchy's Tacos at Ward Parkway Shopping Center on January 23rd. Support our kids and have some amazing tacos!! Hours are 10am to 9pm. 15% of all sales are donated to the class.
Center School is restarting our Center Friends Mentoring Program. This is an opportunity to change the life of a Center student by providing a mentoring relationship with an adult from the community.
If you are interested in learning more about how you can participate, click the link below for more information.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScXwWvjQfoseb4xHR9uYmgbfA6z2-KZMPgG_3dmQv7wA4BUNA/viewform
It's almost Polar Plunge time again! The Center Student Government Association will make their annual trek to Longview Lake to plunge into freezing waters on Saturday, January 27th. It's all to raise money for Special Olympics and our kids (and some staff members) LOVE it! You can help (without getting wet) by sponsoring our team. Here's the link - https://support.somo.org/team/535051
Once we get an exact time, we'll share it so you can come out and cheer them on! Let's go Yellowjackets - getting wet and frozen for a great cause!
The Center High School National Honor Society induction, which was cancelled last week due to weather issues, has been rescheduled for Wednesday, January 31st at 7pm at Center High School. Please join us as we recognize an outstanding group of student leaders.
You are invited to join Center Superintendent, Dr. Yolanda Cargile, for a virtual Coffee Chat this Friday at 7:30am. No specific agenda. This is your opportunity to ask questions and share your thoughts with Dr. Cargile.
If you would like to receive a link to join the meeting, please send an email to Stephanie Archie at sarchie@center.k12.mo.us.
We look forward to seeing you!
