Clint Evans, Deb Davis and Derek Tidball were sworn in Nov. 22 as new members of the Johnston Board of Education. The board then elected Katie Fiala as board president and Alicia Clevenger as vice president. The district...
The Iowa Girls’ High School Athletic Union & The Iowa High School Athletic Association recognizes those teams and cheerleading squads which collectively have excelled in the classroom. Each student-athlete on the team will receive a certificate for their...
Congratulations! On Friday, December 3, 2021 the Iowa State Dance & Drill Team Association hosted the Iowa State Dance Championships, at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, IA. Johnston Varsity Dance received 5th place in the lyrical category,...
Administrators within the Johnston Community School District have recently witnessed a number of viral “challenges” taking place in our schools. Social media outlets, such as TikTok, post challenges out to their worldwide networks and people respond by completing...
Johnston High School Principal Ryan Woods announced today that JHS seniors Anthea Cheng, Matthew He, and Jenna Woodsmall have been named Commended Students in the 2022 National Merit Scholarship Program. A Letter of Commendation from the school and...
On Tuesday, Sept. 21, the Johnston Board of Education held a special board meeting to vote on the implementation of a PreK-12 mask mandate indoors, during instructional hours, for students, staff and visitors. The vote passed and masks...
At the beginning of the 2021-22 school year, there had been conflicting state and federal guidance on how the CDC mask order applied to school buses. With a federal judge’s ruling in a larger case on Sept. 13,...
On Wednesday, Sept. 15, the Johnston Board of Education held a special meeting with the purpose to vote on the required use of masks as an additional mitigation effort for all PreK-12 students and staff when indoors. The...
(Evanston, Illinois) Today, officials of National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) announced the names of approximately 16,000 Semifinalists in the 67th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the...
As the nation approaches the 20-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States, students throughout the district are learning about the impact of the day’s events and how it changed the course of American history going...