Recent News

The Southeast Polk Community school district will receive $49,900 from Facebook as part of their Community Action Grants Program for 2018.   Over the past three years, Facebook has awarded more than $300,000 in grants. The recipients have...

Southeast Polk’s competitive junior high show choir took 1st place in daytime rounds and won the award of “Grand Champion” in finals in the middle school division at Dallas Center-Grimes High School’s “Take Two” show choir competition...

In order to prepare students for college and career opportunities, math teachers incorporate various problem-solving tasks.  No longer is math just a series of formulas to be memorized.  It is an engaging process that encourages students to...

Teachers are gathered today in the Centennial library to learn more about Project Lead the Way and how they are going to roll it out to our kids. Project Lead the Way is a STEM (Science, Technology,...

Before the girl’s basketball game on January 2, 2018, the Southeast Polk Pep Band was the recipient of a generous gift from the family of Merlin Gamble.   Merlin passed away on Saturday, July 29, 2017. He...

In an effort to help our families understand a little bit more about the school-wide programs we use at Four Mile Elementary, we will be sharing monthly updates about the RAMS Way and the Olweus program. Here...

Fifth-Grader Brenda Lachino Trujillo’s design of “U-Nique-Corn” Wins! Iowa State Education Association (ISEA) members use student-designed stickers to motivate their students and celebrate a job well-done.  The Design-A-Decal program recognizes young artists from across the state.  Students...

New ELA Materials are in Full Swing this Year At the beginning of this school year, Southeast Polk adopted new language arts materials.  The last language arts adoption was over 10 years ago.  The new literacy materials...

The Southeast Polk Education foundation has completed their fall grant cycle.  Eight recipients within the Southeast Polk School District have received grants totaling $29,025.  The Education Foundation was fortunate to receive an outpouring of support throughout the...

In Ms. Aldrich’s  4th grade class, students made a model of the brain out of clay. They also had to identify each region of the brain and include it’s function. The students noticed that the surface of...

Southeast Polk High School Student Jackson Birdwell Achieves Perfect ACT Score Jackson Birdwell, a Junior at Southeast Polk High School has earned the highest possible ACT composite score of 36.  On average, only around one-tenth of 1...

High School instructors, Andrea McGee and Jenny Crawford, took students from their High School Computer Science classes to the new HyVee Tech Building in Grimes on Dec 7th. While there, students toured the new facility to get...