Recent News

Luke Williams Receives the 2018 Bill Burch Humanitarian Award Luke can be described as compassionate, friendly, and respectful. He is an ambitious, thoughtful, and humble student who has worked hard to demonstrate leadership in the classroom, the...

The Southeast Polk Robotic team heads to Cedar Falls March 22 – 24 to compete at the Iowa Regional Competition for First Robotics.  The season kicked off in January and the team had 6 weeks to build...

The Southeast Polk High School Jazz Band, under the direction of Jayson Gerth, will be participating in class 4A at the 43rd Annual Iowa Jazz Championships on Thursday, April 5th, 2018  at Iowa State University in Ames,...

Southeast Polk Grading and Reporting Teaching and learning at Southeast Polk is based on identified standards. Rather than a reflection of student behavior, how much work is turned in, or unrelated task completion, grades are a reflection of...

Three Buildings Named as Distinguished School for STEM and Career Learning Program Pleasant Hill, Iowa – Four Mile Elementary, Junior High, and High School announced today that it has been recognized as a Project Lead The Way (PLTW)...

Errthum Named National Merit Finalist Southeast Polk High School senior, Travis Errthum, was named a National Merit Finalist. On September 13th, officials of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) named approximately 16,000 Semifinalists.   In early February, of the 16,000...

(SYBAC) STUDENTS MEET WITH STATE LAWMAKERS ICN provides students with the opportunity to discuss broadband and technology with state leaders. Des Moines (02/16/18) – High school students from across Iowa experienced the opportunity on Tuesday to meet...

Monday, February 19, 2018, was an exciting afternoon at Clay Elementary.  Special Education Teacher Stacey Cochran received The Golden Apple Award at an all-school assembly. This is a very special recognition given to one special teacher each...

Centennial 4th grade students have been studying Newton’s three laws of motion. They had a great time learning about inertia, momentum, acceleration, forces and collisions. In the egg drop experiment, students had to construct a device that...

The National High School Athletic Coaches Association announced the advancement of Jason Christenson from Southeast Polk Community School District as one of eight finalists for the National High School Athletic Coaches Association national coach of the year...

National School Counseling Week – February 5-9 Lori Rhodes has spent 34 years in education, 24 of those years have been spent as a school counselor at Southeast Polk.  Rhodes is the school counselor at Delaware Elementary...

Southeast Polk School Board Member Adam Krell and Superintendent Dr. Dirk Halupnik attended the Iowa Association of School Board’s (IASB) annual Day on the Hill on Jan. 30, 2018. This is the first year that IASB has...