School Year 2021-2022

The Poplar Bluff Middle School has opened up its new playground to provide students with more recreational options, about a year after installing a pavilion. To the west of the school on what was

The Kinders put on a children's Christmas concert for students of both the Poplar Bluff Kindergarten and Early Childhood Center in the first combined school assembly at the Camp Road campus. Brian

Student’s independent artwork to be displayed in building entrance ​ The Poplar Bluff Middle School has plans to permanently display the artwork of a student who has taught himself to create highly

Students display patriotism during Veterans Day Parade The Poplar Bluff Middle School campus was lined with more than 1,000 cheering students holding small flags and homemade signs as 25-30

Approximately 850 people were served during the Community Thanksgiving held Friday, Nov. 12, at Poplar Bluff High School. A longstanding partnership between Chartwells and the R-I school district,

A Mark Twain School sophomore was a guest of honor at the Governor’s Mansion on Tuesday, Nov. 9, in Jefferson City, along with approximately 65 students across Missouri. Jude Stewart was selected

Each of Poplar Bluff’s lower elementary buildings have been named ‘Best Elementary Schools’ by U.S. News & World Report, with three R-I campuses placing among the top 15 schools in Missouri. Out of

Lake Road recently received the first round of free books to enhance the home libraries of students as part of an exclusive program designed to promote literacy among Title 1 schools across the

A new partnership between Mark Twain and the Poplar Bluff Early Childhood Center is not only proving to be beneficial for the students at both age levels, but for the teachers facilitating. “Part

The Three Rivers College Educational Talent Search program has donated a stockpile of gently used STEM kits to the Poplar Bluff Middle School for its hands-on elective. The recent donation included

About 100 students signed up for the opening day of Chess Club at the Poplar Bluff Middle School, immediately placing the after-school group next to Junior Beta as the upper elementary’s most

A Poplar Bluff Middle School teacher was among a shortlist of area educators out of 724 total nominations to be selected in the second annual McDonald’s Outstanding Educator program. Aleanna Moore,

An alumna returned to Poplar Bluff Schools, not long after she graduated at the top of her class, to speak with the Junior High design and modeling class about her experiences thus far studying

A Eugene Field teacher has received a dozen STEM kits with hands-on building manipulatives for students to ‘go beyond the basic skills’ in the subject areas through a new grant program rolled out by

Mark Twain School students are gaining perhaps just as much as they give while helping to address the food insecurity in the community, organizers say. Since the beginning of the calendar year,

A Georgia-based philanthropy group has donated more than $5,000 to a popular elective class at Poplar Bluff High School to purchase several robotics kits so more students can practice

Sparklight recently donated 50 Google Chromebooks to Lake Road Elementary to be used to teach coding during latchkey as the school works toward its goal of incorporating STEM into its

A Poplar Bluff Junior High faculty member has been awarded a $500 grant from the Missouri Retired Teachers Foundation to create a puppet theater and purchase a digital camera for her drama

In an effort to increase retention among faculty, a job-embedded training program created by a state-wide education mogul has been relinquished to the Poplar Bluff school system so new teachers can

Mark Twain School will add staff and expand to include Middle School aged students for the 2021/22 school year, after experiencing initial success despite scaling back the scope of the operation

An internal applicant has begun her new career leading the nursing department of Poplar Bluff Schools during a global pandemic – a story, no doubt, to tell future grandchildren. Kimberly Foster was

Poplar Bluff Junior High has been awarded a matching grant to offer three new semester-long courses in high-demand fields through Project Lead the Way. The classes reportedly filled up quickly, as

Poplar Bluff Schools acquires century-old building downtown Over the decades Poplar Bluff High School has moved northward, beginning where Junior High is now located, to Victory Lane, to its