JOHNSTON, Ia. (May 17, 2023) — Johnston High School art teacher Tyler Kirkholm was today awarded $1,000 as the winner of this year’s Daniel Weiss “Get Your Good Out” Memorial Award during a JHS staff meeting. The award by...
JOHNSTON, IA (May 17, 2023) — The Johnston Board of Education has named Dr. Nikki Roorda as Interim Superintendent of the Johnston Community School District for the 2023-2024 school year. Since July 2021, Dr. Roorda has served as...
JOHNSTON, Ia. (May 12, 2023) — Johnston High School students Piper Stansbury and Advija Jusufovic today became the inaugural recipients of the Ken and Rosie Jarvis Scholarship. In a surprise presentation, the two students were each presented with...
JOHNSTON, Ia. (May 11, 2023) — The Johnston High School Drama Department’s spring 2023 production of Disney’s Frozen: The Broadway Musical has received the Outstanding Musical Production Award, the state’s highest honor in high school musical theater. In...
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...
JOHNSTON, Ia. (May 10, 2023) — JHS senior Eshaan S. Chandani is one of four Iowa high school students named to the 59th class of U.S. Presidential Scholars, one of the nation’s highest honors for high school students. The program...
JOHNSTON, Ia. (May 8, 2023) — The Johnston Community School District is replacing all 8,350 iPads in the district with new ones. The change affects all schools because Johnston is a 1:1 district where each student and teacher has...
GRIMES, Ia. (April 28, 2023) — JHS senior Hannah Paustian thought she was just going out to get pizza with her boyfriend Friday night. But instead, she opened the front door of her house to find a whole...
April 24-28: Check out the Senior Announcements and the “Seniors Come Home” event that the students previous elementary schools put on, also check out our upcoming events in the building and the amazing things JHS students are doing…...
JOHNSTON, Ia. (April 11, 2023) — Cole Van Vark is slated to become the first assistant principal at Johnston High School, pending board approval April 24. Van Vark is currently an associate principal at Lincoln High School in...