November 1, 2021, Fort Dodge, IA- Five students, two from Fort Dodge Senior High and three from Fort Dodge Middle School, were selected to this year’s OPUS Honor Choir. OPUS is an honor choir opportunity for students in grades 5-9, sponsored by the Iowa Choral Directors Association. Over 2,200 students...
November 2, 2021, Fort Dodge, IA- The Fort Dodge Community School District is pleased to announce its students and employee of the month for November. This program recognizes one elementary, one middle school and one high school student, as well as one staff member monthly for exceeding expectations. Aryan Keck...
October 26, 2021, Fort Dodge, IA- Eleven students from Fort Dodge Senior High recently auditioned for the 2021 Iowa High School Music Association’s All-State Music Festival. The students selected for the All-State Music Festival represent the top one percent of high school musicians in the state. Selection to the All-State...
October 25, 2021, Fort Dodge, IA- The Fort Dodge Senior High drama department will present While the Lights Were Out by Jack Sharkey, with permission from Concord Theatricals, on November 5 at 7 p.m. and November 6 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. in the Gail Niceswanger Little Theater at...
October 22, 2021, Fort Dodge, IA- Fort Dodge Community School District third graders know the importance of reading. They read in school every day. They recently learned that they are lucky because not all students get to read in school every day. During their language arts lessons, the third grade...
The Fort Dodge Community School District is one of just three districts in the state meeting both measures of financial health, Director of Financial Services Brandon Hansel told the School Board last Monday. After completing the financial snapshot at the close of fiscal year 2021, which runs from July 1,...
Bev Axness says her favorite thing to bake is chocolate chip cookies or peanut butter bars. Not because she likes them, but because the students at Fort Dodge Senior High School do. Axness has worked full time in school kitchens since 1986. She started working at the elementary school in...
Students from area schools competed in Special Olympics Bowling on Thursday. Family Bowling Center welcomed students from Fort Dodge Schools, Eagle Grove, Humboldt and Clarion-Goldfield-Dows. Cheers erupted as bowlers knocked down the pins at the end of the lanes. Bowler Mason Doughty, from Cooper Elementary School, likes watching the pins...
Almost every student who has passed through the lunch line at Butler Elementary School for the past three decades has a cherished memory from an encounter with a pair of longtime food service staff members. Juanita Rydberg and Linda Redman have been serving students at Butler for more than 30...
Without proper nutrition and meals to keep their bellies full and their brains energized, students have a hard time succeeding in the classroom. That's where the 55 food service employees at the Fort Dodge Community School District come in - making sure each student has access to a healthy and...
