The Fort Dodge Community School District Board of Education approved the district's new emergency operations plan during its meeting Monday night. The EOP is part of a new state requirement signed into law by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds in April 2018. It requires school boards and authorities in charge of...
Fort Dodge Community: I love the first day of school! As a superintendent, this is by far my favorite day. Everyone is happy. Parents are happy, teachers and staff are happy, and even students (though they will not admit it) are happy. There is something undeniably special about the start...
August 19, 2019, Fort Dodge, IA- Elementary students throughout the Fort Dodge Community School District will experience a renewed focus on literacy and math instruction this year. Recently, the Iowa Department of Education changed the literacy and math standards for elementary schools. To meet these new requirements, elementary students receive...
August 19, 2019, Fort Dodge, IA- The new school year is just around the corner with classes beginning on August 27. To assist students in starting the new year, open houses, orientations and welcome conferences have been scheduled throughout the Fort Dodge Community School District. A preschool open house will...
August 8, 2019, Fort Dodge, IA- The Fort Dodge Community School District invites the community to a Fall Sports Pep Rally August 22nd at Dodger Stadium. Admission is a bottle of sports drink per person. Members of the FDSH football, volleyball, cross country, boys golf, girls swimming, and dance teams...
The medley the Fort Dodge Senior High marching band will be playing and marching to this year should have a familiar ring for the older members in the audience. Some of the students playing it, maybe not so much. "It's all Elvis," Band Director Al Paulson said Wednesday while the...
July 15, 2019, Fort Dodge, IA- The Fort Dodge Community School District will host a Paraeducator Hiring Fair from 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. on Monday, July 29, at the Central Administration Building, 104 South 17th Street. Onsite interviews will be held for paraeducators at the high school, middle school,...
June 27, 2019, Fort Dodge, IA- Forty-two eighth graders from Fort Dodge Middle School received the Presidential Academic Excellence Award for outstanding academic achievement this spring. This is the 26th year Fort Dodge Middle School students have been recognized with this honor. The Presidential Academic Excellence Award is a national...
June 21, 2019, Fort Dodge, IA- ​Dodger Academy, the Fort Dodge Community School District’s after school program, is expanding to include 5th grade this fall. Dodger Academy is a comprehensive academic enrichment program that serves TK-5th grade students from around the district at Butler Elementary after the regular school day....
Many students at Feelhaver Elementary School showed dramatic improvements in their reading comprehension during the 2018-19 school year, according to Jen Cordle, kindergarten through fourth grade Title 1 reading instructor. At the beginning of the year, 44 percent of students were reading at grade level and 3 percent were above...
