JOHNSTON, Ia. (Dec. 2, 2022) — Johnston’s Team Dragon is the 2022 Iowa Middle School Mock Trial State Champions! Johnston beat Regis Middle School of Cedar Rapids in the final round at the state mock trial tournament today,...
AMES, Ia. (Nov. 17, 2022) — Fifteen Summit and Johnston Middle School students are participating in the 36th annual OPUS Honor Choir Festival, being held at 4 p.m. today at C.Y. Stephens Auditorium in the Iowa State Center...
JOHNSTON, Ia. (Oct. 26, 2022) — The Johnston Community School District applauds all of the students who tried out for All-State Choir or Band, and the more than two dozen accepted this year. Students will perform at the...
JOHNSTON, Ia. (Oct. 18, 2022) — Johnston is playing a leadership role in an upcoming national conference on student wellness. Illuminate: Student Summit on Wellness will convene school teams across the country to advance groundbreaking, student-led ideas for...
JOHNSTON, Ia. (Oct 10, 2022) — The Johnston Community School District tonight inducted its first group of 37 students into iJAG, Iowa Jobs for America’s Graduates, as the program begins its inaugural year at Johnston High School. Iowa...
JOHNSTON, Ia. (Sept. 28, 2022) — Siddarth Rajkumar, a junior at JHS, recently earned a perfect score on the ACT — the standardized test used for college admissions. This is rare. Less than one half of...
JOHNSTON, Ia. (Sept. 22, 2022) — Seventeen Johnston paraeducators are participating in Iowa’s first-in-the-nation Teacher and Paraeducator Registered Apprenticeship Grant Program. The program, just launched in the 2022-23 school year, is a new model of teacher preparation. It...
JOHNSTON, Ia. (Sept. 15, 2022) — Yami Dik today became the first graduate this year of Johnston’s new Drop-In School! The program, which began in the spring, promotes student success by re-engaging students in school with a safe,...
JOHNSTON, Ia. (Sept. 14, 2022) — Five Johnston High School students were today named among 16,000 semifinalists in the 68th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The Johnston semifinalists are Eshaan Chandani, Anita Dinakar, Aarushi Gupta, Jackson Liu and...
DALLAS, Texas — Johnston High School senior Esha Bolar has been elected president of the Technology Student Association (TSA), a national organization of students engaged in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). She will serve as president in...