Each month Falls City Middle School students and staff nominate students for engaging in acts of kindness throughout the school day.  Students and staff nominate students during the month.  One student from each grade is then selected by the students using a secret ballot at the end of each month. This vote determines the AOK of the month winner and the school buys lunch for the winners from the restaurant of their choice.  Our January 2023 winners are pictured from left to right:

8th Grade:  Paxton Armbruster

7th Grade:  Levi Lendermon

6th Grade:  Kaytlin Rhodd

Maggi Emert, Holton MS 7th Grader, (L) won the Jackson County Spelling Bee. She is pictured here with Maggie Turner, HHS Freshman, who won last year

Congratulations to the Atchison HS Scholars Bowl Team for placing 2nd in the super tough 27 team tournament in Fort Scott! #WeAre409

Addy Kopp of Hiawatha HS WON the Northeast District Employability Skills CDE held at Marysville last week!!!! Placing 1st, Receiving a GOLD medal for high individual and earning her way to the State LDE later this spring!

The staff and administration of Falls City High School have
announced the selections for December High School
Students of the Month. The honors go to the following
students:
Upperclassmen- Jaxtyn Harvey, a senior, whose guardians
are Mark and Meridee Ansel, Hannah Collier, a senior, is the
daughter of Kristin McNett and Aaron Collier.
Underclassmen- Caleb Zimmerman, a sophomore, is the
son of Kim Zimmerman. Ruby Nguyen, a sophomore, is the
daughter of Zee Nguyen.
The students were nominated by high school staff and are
being recognized for being innovative, responsible, resilient,
and resourceful. Each of the students was praised in
nomination comments for “academic excellence, going
above and beyond what was asked of them, their
helpfulness, and their leadership, and serving as excellent
role models for their peers,” according to high school
principal Gale Dunkhas.
Pictured L to R
Jaxtyn Harvey, Hannah Collier, Ruby Nguyen, Caleb Zimmerman

Congrats to Alex Erbes on reading 100 books! Way to go!

Bear Halbrook is an awesome Kindergarten because he read 100 books!!!

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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE USD 430 HHS HONOR ROLL STUDENTS! 

EMS Students of the Month!

EMS Staff Member of the Month! Congratulations, Mrs. Speer!

What an amazing group of former HHS graduates! These young adults returned to Everest Middle School today to share their education pathways with our 5th and 6th grade students. Topics discussed included the soft skills learned during their time at EMS. The soft skills included time management, organization, responsibility and discipline. Educational topics revolved around jobs, colleges and careers.

107Brandi Tawzer, Lori Torkelson Campbell and 105 others

Congratulations to Miss. Grissom on being selected as the HES Staff Member of the Week! Miss. Grissom takes such pride in helping her students! Thanks for all you do!!

USD 430 hosted a visitor from Kansas State University the week of Jan 9-13. Sydney Smith, a freshman Music Education major, completed her Early Field Experience course by job shadowing Mr. Vittetoe and Ms. McManus. She observed classes, asked questions, sorted, copied, and distributed music, taught small groups, conducted a few ensembles, attended the home basketball game, as well as many other duties to get a taste of what being a music teacher, and more specifically and band director, is like. She did a great job and we wish her the best in her continued studies.

18Michele Crouse, Jeremy N Mindi Forkenbrock and 16 others

USD 415 HHS Gave out the pep club spirit stick last night. Congratulations Lucas. Congratulations Kacer for getting the team spirit stick. Go REDHAWKS

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Congratulations to Atchison Master Patrol Officer Alex Moore for being honored as Officer of the Year. The award was presented by VFW Post #1175. We are very proud of you Officer Moore.

Pictured with Officer Moore is Junior-Vice Commander Fred Gage and Chief Mike Wilson.

Clayton Blankers at Jefferson County North created this masterpiece using nothing but Sharpie pens. The detail is immaculate! Mrs. Pursel, our amazing art teacher, framed this work of art for Clayton to take home and keep forever! #JCNExcellence

Atchison County Community Junior Senior High School congratulates the 2023 King and Queen of Mats and their court, who were crowned prior to the home wrestling match Thursday, January 12, 2023. Aiden Lott was crowned King of Mats and Lainey Pantle was crowned Queen of Mats. Rounding out the royal court were candidates Conner Lierz, Brodie McAlexander, Addison Schletzbaum, and Conner Simmers. Assisting with the crowning were representatives of the ACCHS Student Council, Dance Team and Cheerleaders, and announcer, Junior Class President Taylor Keimig.

Three times a year Falls City Public Schools completes standardized testing to measure student progress.   FCMS utilizes the NSCAS state test for Math and English Language Arts, while continuing to utilize the MAP test for Science.  Falls City Middle School would like to recognize the NSCAS Champs and MAP Champs for our Winter testing period.  At FCMS we recognize the highest scoring students in Math, English Language Arts and Science by grade level.  We also recognize the students who realized the biggest growth in scores from Fall of 2022 to Winter of 2022.  Today we are proud to announce our 7th grade NSCAS and MAP champs for Winter of 2022. 

Pictured from Left to Right

Kaden Dougherty:  Kaden is our Science Growth Champion.  He grew 11 points from fall to winter. 

Kadeyn Fiscus:  Kadeyn is our ELA Growth Champion.  Kadeyn improved his ELA score by 181 points.    

Layne Sailors:  Layne is our Math Growth Champion.  Layne improved his Math score by 79 points.

Camden Jean:  Camden had the highest Science score in the 7th grade.    

Burke Wissman:   Burke had the highest English Language Arts score in the 7th grade.

Carter Rumbaugh:  Carter had the highest Math Score in the 7th grade. 

ACCHS has nominated candidates for this year's King & Queen of Mats. They are: Conner Simmers, Addison Schletzbaum, Aiden Lott, Lainey Pantle, Conner Lierz and Brodie McAlexander.

Three times a year Falls City Public Schools completes standardized testing to measure student progress.   FCMS utilizes the NSCAS state test for Math and English Language Arts, while continuing to utilize the MAP test for Science.  Falls City Middle School would like to recognize the NSCAS Champs and MAP Champs for our Winter testing period.  At FCMS we recognize the highest scoring students in Math, English Language Arts and Science by grade level.  We also recognize the students who realized the biggest growth in scores from Fall of 2022 to Winter of 2022.  Today we are proud to announce our 8th grade NSCAS and MAP champs for Winter of 2022. 

Pictured from Left to Right

Jacoby Bangert:  Jacoby is our Science Growth Champion.  He improved his score by 10 points.

Gabi Young:  Gabi is our ELA Growth Champion.  She improved her score by 145 points. 

Thomas Godemann:  Thomas is our Math Growth Champion.  He improved his score by 80 points.

Dayton Snethen:  Dayton had the highest Science and the highest Math score in the 8th grade.    

Miyuna Kong:   Miyuna had the highest English Language Arts score in the 8th grade.

Atchison County Community Junior Senior High School is pleased to announce the candidates for 2023 King and Queen of Mats. Queen candidates are Brodie McAlexander, daughter of Justin and Jennifer McAlexander; Lainey Pantle, daughter of Connie Ellerman; and Addison Schletzbaum, daughter of Jason and Shannon Schletzbaum. King candidates are Conner Lierz, son of Sean and Crystal Mahoney; Aiden Lott, son of Luke and Ashley Lott; and Conner Simmers, son of Simmers and Christina Graf. The crowning ceremony will take place Thursday, January 12, 2023, in the ACCJSHS Gym, at 5:20 p.m., prior to the home wrestling dual.

Three times a year Falls City Public Schools completes standardized testing to measure student progress.   FCMS utilizes the NSCAS state test for Math and English Language Arts, while continuing to utilize the MAP test for Science.  Falls City Middle School would like to recognize the NSCAS Champs and MAP Champs for our Winter testing period.  At FCMS we recognize the highest scoring students in Math, English Language Arts and Science by grade level.  We also recognize the students who realized the biggest growth in scores from Fall of 2022 to Winter of 2022.  Today we are proud to announce our 6th grade NSCAS and MAP champs for Winter of 2022. 

Pictured from Left to Right

Knox Davis:  Knox is our ELA Growth Champion.  He improved his score from fall to winter by 120 points.

Tristan Randall:  Tristan is our Science Growth Champion.  He improved his score from fall to winter by 25 points.  

Karson Simpson:  Karson is our Math Growth Champion.  Karson improved his score from fall to winter by 96 points.

Elijah Diltz:  Elijah had the highest score in the 6th grade on both the Math and Science tests.    

Caroline Powell:   Caroline had the highest score in the 6th grade on the ELA test.

Each month Falls City Middle School students and staff nominate students for engaging in acts of kindness throughout the school day.  Students and staff nominate students during the month.  One student from each grade is then selected by the students using a secret ballot at the end of each month. This vote determines the AOK of the month winner and the school buys lunch for the winners from the restaurant of their choice.  Our December 2022 winners are pictured from left to right:

8th Grade:  Evan Ogden

7th Grade:  Brayden Nichols

6th Grade:  Josslyn Bangert

Congratulations to our winners and thank you for being excellent examples of kindness for our students and community!