(As posted by the Iowa High School Athletic Association on April 29, 2020) Iowa’s top academic students have been chosen for the 2020 Governor’s Scholar Program. The Governor’s Office, the Iowa High School Athletic Association, and its title...
Matthew Ding, a senior at Johnston High School, has been named a finalist in the prestigious U.S. Presidential Scholars program. He is one of 620 students nationwide to advance from the semifinalist round. The program starts with a...
Congratulations to ten Johnston students who qualified and competed in the online State Math Championship on Saturday, April 25, 2020. Mathleague.org hosted this annual event through a massive Zoom meeting. Each student had a chaperone to proctor the...
The 2020 U.S. News and World Report Best High School rankings have been released and Johnston High School has been named third among Des Moines metro-area high schools, ninth in the state, and 1,949th in the nation. The...
DES MOINES – Gov. Kim Reynolds released the following statement after new figures released by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics show Iowa’s 2019 high school graduation rate has reached a record high of 91.6...
With school buildings now closed for the remainder of the 2019-20 school year, we’d like to inform families of what will happen with their lunch account balances. Non-graduating student The account balance will remain in the student lunch...
(From the Iowa Department of Education 04-17-2020) Schools will continue voluntary and required continuous learning plans while school buildings are closed DES MOINES – Gov. Kim Reynolds and the Iowa Department of Education announced today that all school...
(As posted by the Iowa Department of Education) The state of Iowa has seven semifinalists for the prestigious 2020 U.S. Presidential Scholars program, including one student from Johnston High School. They are: Matthew Ding, Johnston High School, Johnston...
Congratulations to all Johnston students who participated in the Virtual Merle Hay District Contest for Iowa History Day. Students spent many months outside of school researching about topics that met the theme of “Breaking Barriers in History,” and...
(This information was messaged to parents and staff on April 09, 2020) Johnston Fulfills State Requirements to Provide Voluntary Online Learning Through April 30, 2020 During the week of March 30, the district assembled a Continuous Learning Task...