Johnston, IA – October 11, 2021 – Ryan Eidahl has been hired as the district’s Chief Financial Officer, assuming the position after Jan Miller-Hook retires to become Iowa School Finance Director for IASB at the end of the...
Administrators within the Johnston Community School District have recently witnessed a number of viral “challenges” taking place in our schools. Social media outlets, such as TikTok, post challenges out to their worldwide networks and people respond by completing...
Johnston High School Principal Ryan Woods announced today that JHS seniors Anthea Cheng, Matthew He, and Jenna Woodsmall have been named Commended Students in the 2022 National Merit Scholarship Program. A Letter of Commendation from the school and...
On Tuesday, Sept. 21, the Johnston Board of Education held a special board meeting to vote on the implementation of a PreK-12 mask mandate indoors, during instructional hours, for students, staff and visitors. The vote passed and masks...
At the beginning of the 2021-22 school year, there had been conflicting state and federal guidance on how the CDC mask order applied to school buses. With a federal judge’s ruling in a larger case on Sept. 13,...
On Wednesday, Sept. 15, the Johnston Board of Education held a special meeting with the purpose to vote on the required use of masks as an additional mitigation effort for all PreK-12 students and staff when indoors. The...
(Evanston, Illinois) Today, officials of National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) announced the names of approximately 16,000 Semifinalists in the 67th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the...
As the nation approaches the 20-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States, students throughout the district are learning about the impact of the day’s events and how it changed the course of American history going...
Johnston, IA – September 09, 2021 – Eight schools in the Johnston Community School District have been recognized as Apple Distinguished Schools for 2021-2024 for their integration of 1:1 iPad learning devices across PreK-12 classroom learning environments. Schools...
Posted on behalf of the Dragon Scholarship Fund The Dragon Scholarship Fund is looking for parents of students in the Johnston Community School district to join our board! Our Mission The Dragon Scholarship Fund (DSF) goal is to...