High School

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...

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...

Outstanding CASE Model School Serves as an Inspiration to Enhance STEM in Agriculture Matthew Eddy, an agriculture instructor, represented Southeast Polk High School of Iowa, in receiving the inaugural CASE Model School Award. The CASE Model School...

Southeast Polk Jazz Bands in Full Swing at District Jazz Festival The Southeast Polk High School Jazz Ensembles performed at South Central Iowa Bandmasters Association’s District Jazz Festival on Saturday, December 9. Waukee High School annually hosts...

Southeast Polk Represents at Des Moines Optimist Club On the 14th of November 2017, Lauren Creger and Mitchell Rice represented Southeast Polk High School as they were recognized by the Optimists Club at a luncheon at the...

The agriculture classroom at Southeast Polk High School provides an exemplary learning environment for students to grow and produce fish for the High School cafeteria.  The system is an 1100 gallon aquaponic grow system that was modeled...

At Southeast Polk learning doesn’t always take place in your typical classroom, at a desk or behind a computer.  Southeast Polk’s, Industrial Technology Teacher, Ryan Andersen and his Construction Technology class are getting hands on experience by...

October 21, 2017 was a great day for the Southeast Polk High School Music Department at the Iowa All State Band, Choir, and Orchestra Auditions held at Indianola High School. Nine instrumentalists and five vocalists from Southeast...

Southeast Polk High School’s class of 2017 exceeded the state averages on ACT Scores in English, Mathematics, Reading, and Science.  Southeast Polk students’ composite score of 23 compares favorably to the State of Iowa composite of 21.9....

Southeast Polk High School Senior, Heather Baier, has been named a commended student in the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program.  A Letter of Commendation from the school and National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), which conducts the program,...

On Tuesday, October 3, 60 Southeast Polk High School students spent the day with Rassmussen Group at various sites learning about careers in the construction industry.  This day was planned by the efforts of Amy Steenhoek, DMACC, and Kyle...