Annual health and wellness forum set for Jan. 13

The Ballard County Board of Education set the annual Health and Wellness public forum for Jan. 13 at 5:45 p.m., immediately prior to the next regular board meeting.

Tue Dec 17 01:57 PM

Applicants sought for District 3 position on Ballard Board of Education

The Ballard County Board of Education is seeking applications for appointment to represent District 3. The vacancy was created upon the resignation of eight-year board member Brandon Birney at the group’s Nov. 18 regular monthly meeting. Applicants must reside in BOE/Ballard Magisterial District 3 and be registered to vote there. For complete qualifications and copy of the application, please click to see story. Applications must be received no later than Dec. 13 at 4 p.m. at the BOE office at 11 Vocational School Road, Barlow.

Fri Nov 22 02:28 PM

Family Focus, Teen Focus, announce Christmas assistance program guidelines

Family Focus and Teen Focus have been helping families with Christmas expenses for several years. We want to continue helping families in our community. The process has some changes this year…please read below for the guidelines for this holiday season:

Tue Oct 29 02:48 PM

BCMS, BMHS earn Green overall rating in third year of state accountability system; BCES earns Yellow

Ballard County Middle School’s overall score increased over 10 percent in in the state’s school accountability system this year, earning a 73.7. Ballard Memorial High School’s score fell slightly to a 74.3; Ballard County Elementary also fell slightly to a 61.5. Kevin Estes, chief academic officer for the district, said “Every year our students and teachers get one shot to show what they have accomplished and learned over the school year on the KSA assessment. We know our kids are learning more and at a higher level than some of this data shows. Our schools utilize I-Ready assessments three times a year to monitor the growth and development of all our students. Even though KSA is what is reported to show how our students and schools are performing, we will continue to value the data from our progress monitoring tools and assessments in I-Ready as the true indicators of our students’ learning and growth to be on-grade level or above.

Fri Oct 04 11:00 AM

BCMS student reports threats to administrators, accused student to be charged

A middle school student reported inappropriate threatening statements by another middle school student to administrators earlier today. Administrators moved immediately to locate the accused student. An investigation was conducted by the school resource officer, and the SRO is recommending charges of terroristic threatening against the accused student. Per the district Code of Behavior, the student was suspended from school, pending administrator decisions on other appropriate disciplinary action. All students are safe. No weapons were found, and no lockdown was initiated. Today’s incident is unrelated to law enforcement presence in the district on Monday.

Tue Sep 17 03:30 PM

Bomber Bash is Saturday

Everyone please join us for Bomber Bash! UPDATED location for health fair - in BMHS hallways, not gym.

Tue Jul 23 08:40 AM