While most Huntsville School District students enjoyed a summer off, some enjoyed extended learning through the summer as part of the summer garden club. 

The latest test scores for the Huntsville School District are somewhat of a mixed bag, the Huntsville School Board learned during its August 15 meeting. 

Car-rider drop-off and pick-up procedures and traffic flow for Watson Primary and Huntsville Intermediate schools will be different this year, said Huntsville Police Chief Todd Thomas.

Superintendents of Huntsville and Jasper public schools say they are looking forward to the start of the new scholastic year.

The final First Friday of 2023 will be held on Aug. 4 on Polk Square in downtown Huntsville. The theme for Friday’s event will be Hometown Proud/Back to School.

July and August are usually big months for school enrollment, Huntsville School officials recently agreed. Superintendent Jonathan Warren reported on the end-of-year enrollment numbers during the May Huntsville School Board meeting.

Back-to-school shoppers will be on the hunt for savings this weekend during the state's tax-free holiday, which will permit consumers to purchase certain goods free of sales or use taxes.

The Jasper School Board did an about-face Monday night, rescinding a contract offer to a former St. Paul basketball coach for a coaching position at Oark School. It also accepted the resignation of Oark Principal Kenena Pelfrey, who recommended hiring him. 

Every spring, students across Arkansas (and most other states) take standardized tests designed to gauge not only how well each student learned during the school year, but how well the schools overall did teaching.

Two positions that have been in the spotlight lately were discussed, and somewhat resolved, during Monday’s regular Huntsville School Board meeting. 

The Huntsville School District has been in negotiations with the Huntsville Police Department and the City of Huntsville about school resource officers at local schools, after Madison County Sheriff Ronnie Boyd said his department would no longer provide the officers.

The Madison County Sheriff’s Office will no longer provide deputies as School Resource Officers to the Huntsville School District, according to Sheriff Ronnie Boyd.

The Huntsville School Board approved several recommended policies from the Arkansas School Board Association except for a few, including one that would have kept members from going on their own to visit individual school buildings. 

It’s a tale of two yearbooks.  The Huntsville Middle School yearbook was recognized as the best yearbook in the nation for the second consecutive year.

The Huntsville School Board members should always be the last stop not the first stop, said Attorney Marshall Ney of Friday, Eldredge & Clark of Rogers, on Monday night at a board working session. 

Thanks to the advocacy of Huntsville School Board member Bobby Ray Gulledge, St. Paul schools are seeing improvements around their campuses, including the addition of a restroom in the library. 

Watson Primary School second-grader Taywin Berry raised and sold pepper plants.

The Huntsville School District could save nearly $75,000 annually in energy-related costs, the Huntsville School Board learned Monday during the board’s May meeting.   In November …

Early voting for the May 9 special school board election began this week at the Madison County Courthouse.

Audra Kimball, former Huntsville School District superintendent and current personnel and program compliance director, and former junior high school basketball coach Kaleb Houston have been summoned to appear for charges of failure to notify by mandated reporters in the first degree, according to Fourth Judicial Prosecuting Attorney Matt Durrett.