Portrait of a Learner Winner | Productivity & Accountability | Kayla Bousum Kayla Bousum, JHS Business Teacher, was nominated by her peers as an educator who fulfills the Productivity & Accountability aspect of our Portrait of a Learner...
JHs junior Addie May has been named the JHS Financial Literacy Student of the Year by JHS business teacher Kayla Bousum. Mrs. Bousum was granted $500 by Next Gen Personal Finance, a curriculum company that is committed to...
Beaver Creek Elementary has been awarded the Honor level of recognition from the Iowa PBIS State Leadership Team for the 2017-18 school year. They are one of 23 schools to receive the honor this year. The Positive Behavioral...
Today, National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) announced this year’s National Merit $2500 Scholarship winners. The 2,500 Merit Scholar designees were chosen from a talent pool of more than 15,000 outstanding Finalists in the 2019 National Merit Scholarship Program....
(Submitted by Emily Slattery Phillips, JHS Art Teacher) Congratulations to the following students for being selected to exhibit work in the Burbs Art Show today at the Drake University Harmon Fine Arts Center, and to all of those...
Ten Johnston High School seniors were honored at the fourth annual Stepping Towards Success banquet on April 30, 2019. This banquet is held to recognize students who were nominated by a faculty member for improving or maintaining excellence...
The 2019 U.S. News and World Report Best High School rankings have been released and Johnston High School has been named ninth in the state and 1,810th in the nation. The high school earned a “Best” ranking, a...
Johnston Odyssey of the Mind sent six teams to compete at the state tournament on Saturday, April 6. Four teams were selected to compete at the world tournament May 22-26 at Michigan State University. Johnston Odyssey of the...
Jessica Dowell, a world studies/history teacher at Johnston High School, has been named the 2019 recipient of the James Madison Foundation Fellowship. This fellowship is awarded to one teacher per state per year, and covers the full cost...
The Johnston Community School District finance department has once again earned the Association of School Business Officials (ASBO) International Certificate of Excellence in Financial Reporting. The district has long been a recipient of the ASBO International Certificate of...