Blue Devil Athletic Passes

(Call Coach Dauksch at 870 735 1915 ext 18032)

Big savings for the Sports Fan:

       Student All Sports Pass—only $20 (good for all regular season home events)

            Adult All Sports Pass—only $50 (good for all regular season home events)

Football Only:

       Senior High Football Season Ticket-- $20

            Football Season Ticket--$25 (good for all Junior & Senior High home games)

            Reserved Seat-- $10 (your own reserved seat in the middle section)

Booster Club Membership 

(call Carolyn at 870 733 4259)

            Family--$25

            Individual--$20

            Also business opportunities—several packages that include season tickets,

                        Reserved seats and advertizing at home games

           

IMMUNIZATIONS available at Health Dept. Open Late on 8/18/2016

Crittenden County Health Department

Late Immunization Clinic

Thursday, August 18, 2016

4:30-6:30pm

901 N. 7th Street

West Memphis, AR 72301

870-735-4334

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NEW Construction - NOTES

A great deal of change is happening at West Memphis School District.  Six of the twelve student campuses are under construction for renovation or new builds.  A new Bragg Elementary campus is being built behind the current facility (opens August 2017).   Electrical upgrades will be complete by 8/15/2016 at Faulk, Maddux, Richland, and Weaver elementary campuses, as well as, the Academies of West Memphis High School.  Maddux Elementary and the Academies of West Memphis have had additional interior renovations that will also be complete before students return August 15, 2016.

Improving learning environments is great news for our students, staff, and community  With change, we must adapt.  Therefore, WMSD would like you to be on the lookout for upcoming posts about vehicle and pedestrian traffic flow for certain campuses.  For 2016-2017 school year, changes in dropoff/pickup and entry/exit routes should only affect Bragg, Faulk, Richland, and Weaver elementary.

Go Blue Devils !!!

Back to School - 2016-2017 Registration Information

STUDENTS return to school Monday August 15, 2016.

Elementary (K-6th) REGISTRATION INFO 2016-2017

Junior High (7th-9th)REGISTRATION INFO 2016-2017

Senior High (10th-12th) REGISTRATION INFO 2016-2017

Board Meeting 7/19/2016 @ 5pm

School Board meeting on Tuesday July 19th, 2016 will begin at 5pm at the West Memphis School District board room located at 301 South Avalon in West Memphis, Arkansas.

NEW wmsd.net

The look of www.wmsd.net (West Memphis School District) has changed!   If any trouble locating items, use Search box on top right or Sitemap on bottom of left link bar.  Staff can find their links, such as Email, on Staff page.  GO BLUE DEVILS!!!

 

No Cost Health Services Clinic @ Lehr Arena of West Memphis High School

The Delta Regional Authority is hosting a NO COST Health Services clinic from June 6th to June 25th, 2016.
The free health services will be provided at the Academies of West Memphis High School Basketball Arena every Monday-Saturday from 8am to 5pm.

• No Insurance Required
• First come; first served
• All welcome ages 2 and older

Health Services are being rendered by U.S. Military Service Members.
Services include:

• Medical Health Screenings
• Eye Exams and Single pane Eyeglasses; (*does not include BiFocals).
• Dental cleanings and extractions
• Behavioral health services consisting of Counseling, as well as, referrals to other local providers

More details at
www.facebook.com/GreyhoundCares

SCHOOL IS OUT !

Summer 2016 is here!  Everyone be safe and have great break!

Headed for Governor's School

Academies of West Memphis students who were selected to attend Governor's School this summer are (from left) Michael Hinson, Joshua Dantzler, Allison Nanney, Riley Young and Mason Arnett. The foursome will head to Governor's School June 12 - July 23, 2016 at Hendrix College in Conway.

AWM trio make the grade

Three Academies of West Memphis students recently competed in the World Language competition at Harding University in Searcy. They are students in Brent Butler's (left) Spanish I class at AWM. From Butler's left, Dawson Mathis scored advanced, Jason Scott won first place in Spanish I and poetry recitation and also fourth in vocabulary and Claudia Brown scored advanced in her areas.

Bragg Elementary groundbreaking

Principal Terri McCann began the reverse countdown from five with the rest of her students, and with that the first shovels of dirt moved for the construction of the new $14 million Bragg Elementary.

Under picture-perfect powder-blue skies, it couldn't have been a better day for the event.
"The weather is beautiful today because I ordered it," quipped West Memphis mayor Bill Johnson at the Tuesday morning event.

The oldest elementary school in West Memphis isn't getting a facelift.
It's getting a brand new building. And suffice it to say, it'll be a huge upgrade.

"Well, for one we won't have to have our teacher's lounge in the boiler room,"  McCann said with a straight face.
 The one-liners were many on Tuesday, and for good reason, from the  dignitaries which included Johnson, superintendent Jon Collins, state senator  Keith Ingram and state reps Deborah Ferguson and Milton Nicks.
 

Both Collins and Ladd Garey of the architectural firm of ETFC/Garey, are  Bragg alums and, as you might expect, the occasion took on special  meaning.
 

"It's one of the most exciting projects I've ever done," said Garey. "It kept me  up at night quite a bit. And working with Jon, who I went to high school with, it  makes it that much more special."
 

The one-level school will be over 72,000 square feet and the feature  component may be the gymnasium, something the current 64-year-old building doesn't have.
"It's just going to be beautiful," added McCann, who in her 11th year at the helm is only the fourth-ever principal for the school.

"Working with what we have now in the 11 years I've been here we've grown from 350 kids to over 500 now. I think the community deserves the new school. There's a long history of great education here."
Garey said the completion date for the project is set for July of 2017 in time for the administration and faculty to get moved in for the start of the fall semester that year.

The site of the new construction will be directly behind the current Bragg building in the space currently used for the school's recess and the practice field for the West Junior High football team.
The last time West Memphis built a new school from the ground up it took an historical tornado, which swept through the east end of town the night of December 14, 1987.

The most significant damage was the destruction of Maddux Elementary.

Before that, the last building project was in 1977 when Faulk Elementary was built.
"A lot of variables have to take place to get to this point when you're planning a building project," said Collins. "A lot of stars have to line up for school districts to do something like this."

One of the biggest variables was the fiscal prowess of former superintendent Bill Kessinger, who had enough money in reserve to fund most of the Bragg project. Collins said $6 million of the project will come from state funds, with the rest coming from in house.

"Living smack dab in the middle of the Mississippi River Delta, we have the next-to-lowest millage rate in the state, so our taxpayers are not overburdened, Collins added. "Yet we have the fourth-highest starting teacher salary in the state behind Rogers, Springdale and Bentonville."

By Billy Woods
WM School District

The first dirt shoveled for the new Bragg Elementary was moved by (from left) school board members Randy Sullivan and Randy Catt, mayor Bill Johnson, state senator Keith Ingram, superintendent Jon Collins, board member D'James Rodgers, state reps Deborah Ferguson and Milton Nicks and board member Gary Masner.

Graduation

Graduation is just around the corner!  Congratulations to all Academies of West Memphis graduates. 

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