Marion County Schools

We aren't LION! 🦁Monongah Elementary School students are growing in reading and writing and math as well as their school-wide support of an exploration of plants and gardening through these core subjects today and every day. ❤️

Jayenne is Blue Ribbon quality today with Flat Stanley traveling to states all over the country, including Roll Tide Country, addressing envelopes, creating ponds for 🦩s in art, and all kinds of Whacky Wednesday fun to promote the love of reading for March 2 Dr. Seuss's Day.

Marion County Schools registration for Summer SOLE opens March 4 through April 22, 2024. SOLE for students in grades K-12 will be July 9-July 30. Registration of your child helps us prepare staffing, meals, and transportation at sites. See https://forms.office.com/r/PxfqdNHLVh.

The school counselors of Marion County met today to get updates on current topics, including a book study opportunity, in collaboration with Communities of Shalom, Marion County's Prevention Coalition, on The Neuro Whereabouts Guide.

Round 2 of Quiz Bowl at White Hall Elementary, led by teachers Ms. Tracy Rogers and Ms. Jessica Ford, tonight!

Magical music put to the 7 days of the week at Fairview Elementary today.

School-wide Positive Behavior Intervention and Support teams from throughout Marion County Schools met tonight to discuss successes and next steps with their schools on positive behavior intervention and supports.

The catch watched around the nation is now forever immortalized in the halls of North Marion High School as Landon Frey received a handmade frame from Terry Brewer and Andy Price of the MCS Maintenance Department at a special ceremony. Humble Frye thank his quarterback and team.

"Experience excellence" greets students at entrance of White Hall. They can explore a Lego set up, the vocabulary term "droop" as they read literature about sunflowers, explore art connections, showcase animal habitats, and GROW through teachers, staff, and student interns.

Inequal numbers and number lines, helping and linking verbs, and careers in farming are topics discussed if you pop into some of the classrooms today at Mannington Middle School. The gators are on the move! 💚🐊

April is Month of the Military Child. Join us in saluting our special signing days at our high schools: 🇺🇸NMHS - Thursday, April 18th 12:00 - 1:00 🇺🇸EFHS - Tuesday, April 23rd 1:30-2:30 🇺🇸FSHS - Thursday, April 25th 8:00 - 9:00

Seeking applications for Governor's Schools of West Virginia! Submission Deadlines for Marion County: Governor’s Schools for Middle School Students   • Governor's School of Literacy through the Arts, Culture, and History (GSLACH (https://wvde.us/gov-schools/arts-culture-and-history/)) – current 8th grade students (application deadline for counties is March 22, 2024) • Governor's STEM Institute (GSI (https://wvde.us/gov-schools/stem-institute/)) (WVU) – current 7th grade students (application deadline for counties is April 5, 2024) • Governor's STEM Institute (GSI (https://wvde.us/gov-schools/stem-institute/)) (Green Bank) – current 8th grade students (application deadline for counties is April 5, 2024)   Governor’s Schools for High School Students   • Governor's Computer Science Institute (GCSI (https://wvde.us/gov-schools/computer-science-institute/)) – current 9th and 10th grade students (application deadline for students is April 5, 2024) • Governor's Honors Academy (GHA (https://wvde.us/gov-schools/honors-academy/)) – current 11th grade students (application deadline for counties is March 22, 2024) • Governor's School for Entrepreneurship (GSE (https://wvde.us/gov-schools/school-of-entrepreneurship/)) – current 9th, 10th, and 11th grade students (application deadline for students is M arch 15, 2024 ) • Governor's School for the Arts ( GSA (https://wvde.us/gov-schools/arts/) ) – current 10 th  grade students (application deadline for students is March 15, 2024 ) Please submit all applications to your school no later than the date listed beside each Academy or Institute.

Help us take a bite out of the apple. Support the Marion County Schools Bond at the polls on May 14, 2024. See what we have planned for Watson Elementary: https://fb.watch/qsWKqXkDVc/ Learn more about the bond: https://www.marionboe.com/page/bond

Congratulations to the Marion County Schools Social Studies Fair winners who will advance to regional competition at Glenville State University in March. Division I (Grades 3-5) - Individual Milly Mayer (East Dale Elementary) - Sociology Piper Bobi (Pleasant Valley Elementary) - US History Ella Moore (Rivesville Elementary) - World History Laney Moore (East Dale Elementary) - Geography Taylor Eakle (East Fairmont Middle ) - Economics Thatcher Poling (Watson Elementary) - Anthropology Maci Biggie (Pleasant Valley) - Political Science William Ford (East Fairmont Middle) - State & Local Hope Harris (East Dale Elementary) - Psychology Division I (Grades 3-5) - Group Eli Hamrick/Colton Riggs (Pleasant Valley) - Anthropology Jake Cutlip/Finn Harris/Shep Wise (Pleasant Valley) - US History Tayah Berg/Aubrey Hoffman (Pleasant Valley) - Geography Lauren Lodge/Emme Wilson (Plesant Valley) - Psychology Reese Claybrook/Leona Brammer/Jeanette McCulley (Watson Elementary) - State & Local Hayden Heston/Nova Jenkins (Pleasant Valley) - World History Division II (Grades 6-8) - Individual Kyle Brown (East Fairmont Middle School) - Anthropology Brooklyn Myers (East Fairmont Middle School) US History Division II (Grades 6-8) - Group Ella Bledsoe/Alyza Lake (East Fairmont Middle School) - Sociology Jenna Conaway/Sloan Nichols/Aubrey Stevenski ( East Fairmont Middle School) - US History Division III (Grades 9-12) - Individual Jaden Dawson (EFHS) - World History Division III (Grades 9-12) - Group Ayla Webster/Rockett Nichols (EFHS) - Geography Jessie Wiseman/Kendall Grace (EFHS) - Anthropology Jenna Wilson/Bella Hicks (EFHS) - Political Science Cam Brunett/River McClain (EFHS) - Sate & Local Jon Jett/Adrian Fleming (EFHS) - Psychology Rae Silvis/Brayden Christopher (EFHS) - Sociology

Exposing Students to the Arts: The Atlas String Quartet performed at North Marion High School today. 🎶

"Take a Bite Out of the Apple for Kids" and learn more about the 2024 Bond Proposal and an equal distribution of funds across the 3 Marion County Schools feeder areas with elementary and high school projects at https://www.marionboe.com/page/bond. This is a 5-year bond as part of a "first bite" in a longer 15-year plan to address facilities needs across the district. Information will be added to this page in coming months prior to the May 14, 2024 vote.

Spring is coming! Gardners of Marion County and Barnes Learning Center students worked together to plant seedlings for the Farms to School Program today.

Marion County Schools coaches gathered today to kick off the spring sports season, hosted by North Marion High School.

Support the students of MCTC FFA.

What a great evening to celebrate the students of Marion County Schools and their studies at the Social Studies Fair. You all make your schools and our county so proud! From Taylor Swift to Rubik's Cube to Genghis Khan to the Monongah Mine Disaster to New River Gorge to crochet.