Several weeks ago, more than 2,200 people signed up to add texting to the way that Monroe Public Schools can contact them for various items of interest in the district. However, some people did not sign up with the initial offering but have since decided that they wanted to sign up to receive text message from MPS. Parents and sta...
The Monroe County Health Department will hold an immunization clinic for children who are newly enrolled in their school district, kindergartners or seventh grade students who need to be vaccinated. The clinic is scheduled for 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., Thursday, December 3, at the health department office at 2352 S. Custer Rd. at Herr Rd., which is t...
Students will have a half-day of classes on Wednesday, Nov. 25, and no school on Thursday and Friday. The early-release times for all of our students are 10 minutes earlier now than they have been. The new release times are listed below. Just a reminder, too, that our Riverside and Custer Kids’ Clubs will be open their regular hours this Wednesday. Monroe...
Congratulations to the Waterloo STEAM Elementary’s robotics team which this past weekend qualified as one of only seven teams to advance to the First Lego League State Tournament to be held December 12 at Jefferson High School. The team competed last Saturday (Nov. 21) in the FLL Regional Qualifying Meet at Monroe High School. . &n...
During the recently completed College Application Week, seniors at Monroe High School submitted 615 college applications, 532 of which were to in-state institutions. In all, 343 members of the senior class submitted at least one college application and 226 seniors submitted their first college application ever during College Application Week. &nbs...
Monroe High School is one of only 100 high schools across Michigan selected by the Michigan College Access Network (MCAN) to receive a $5,000 grant to boost efforts to help students to pursue education beyond high school. “This grant assists us in focusing on the college portion of post-secondary planning,” said Mrs. Sa...
This is a paper that Monroe Middle School 8th grader Jayme Laney wrote in honor of Veterans Day. It is being entered into a patriotic writing contest. Given the events in France on Friday, its words take on a far more important, urgent tone. Thank you, Jayme, for sharing your thoughts. Freedom. The choice everyone wants to have. The most priceless thing in the ...
More than 300 third- through eighth-graders are expected to complete in the First Lego League meet on Saturday, November 21, at Monroe High School. Competition starts at 9 a.m. The event is expected to draw 31 teams with 20 of them representing Monroe County schools. Teams are comprised of up to 10 students in grades three through eight. Seven of t...
The Monroe Composite Squadron, Civil Air Patrol has awarded Waterloo Elementary School a grant totaling nearly $4,600 to help support the schools’ STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) program, the only program of its kind in a Monroe County elementary school. “We are extremely pleased to present this...