Centennial Elementary

Thank you families for the great support this first full week of school! Students have come to school ready to learn and are so excited to be back! What a great start to the school year!

Centennial Elementary students are gearing up to raise money for a new playground at the school’s second annual Walkathon Friday, May 11. Organizers have set a fundraising goal of $50,000 for this year’s walkathon. The inaugural walkathon,...

Congratulations to Centennial School Counselor Kara Buerger Wins Iowa PBIS Person of the Year! Kara Buerger, a counselor at Centennial Elementary School has been named Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) Person of the Year! Mrs. Buerger...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...