The Lady Tigers basketball team finished the regular season Tuesday with senior night, honoring senior Kayla Brown. The Lady Tigers will play their first playoff game vs. Lufkin at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb 11th in Wagstaff Gym at Tyler Junior College. Gametime could shift to 6:00 p.m. pending scheduling with TJC so get there [...]
As we all know, it is flu season. This number of reported cases is rising quickly. The flu, or influenza, is an infection of the nose, throat, and lungs. The flu virus is very contagious and can be spread from person to person by breathing in droplets from a cough, sneeze or runny nose that [...]
The Mount Pleasant High School Speech and Debate Team went to the District 15-AAAAA UIL Cross Examination Debate Tournament on Tuesday, January 29th with one purpose in mind – to qualify for the State Meet. All 3 MPHS teams medaled in the top 6. The duo of freshman Connelly Cowan and sophomore Taryn Thurman took [...]
Rep. John Ratcliffe’s Congressional Student Leadership Program (CSLP) kicked off on January 16th for high school sophomores and juniors across Texas’ 4th District for the 2018-2019 school year. This marks the third year of the program, which has expanded to include four physical meeting locations in Rockwall, Mount Pleasant, Texarkana and Sherman. Students selected to [...]
P.E. Wallace Middle School will present Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins Jr. on Friday, January 25 at 7:00 p.m. and on Saturday, January 26 at 1:00 p.m. in the P.E. Wallace gym. Admission is free, but the students are accepting canned good/non-perishable pantry items that will be donated to Titus County Cares. Based on [...]
The Mount Pleasant High School UIL Academic team continued its season on Friday and Saturday, January 11th and 12th at the North Lamar Invitational in Paris. Overall, the team took first place at the meet. In Speech and Debate, the team placed first with more than double the points of the second place team. In [...]
The Mount Pleasant High School Congressional Debate Team competed in the UIL Congress State Meet at The University of Texas at Austin on January 8. Sophomore Ryan Sharp and junior Caroline Rose represented Mount Pleasant High School and Region 8 and competed against 49 other students from 5A school districts across the state. At the [...]
MPISD school board members are committed to public education and the continuing success of our students and schools. Take time in January to thank them for being champions for our kids!
Four Mount Pleasant High School Choir students attended Pre-Area auditions on November 27 in Gilmer. Seniors Alyssa Reynolds and Colton Craft, and sophomore Migel Guerrero, have advanced to Area auditions. Freshman Abril Ramirez was named an alternate to Area. “I am proud of the tenacity these young musicians have exhibited as they have worked diligently [...]
Twenty-two senior members of the Mount Pleasant High School Goin’ Gold Band were awarded scholarships totaling $526,800 to The University of Arkansas at Monticello. All twenty-two students received a Band Scholarship, eighteen received an additional Jazz Band Scholarship, and eighteen received an additional Achievement Scholarship. Those receiving scholarships include Madia Arredondo, Irene Barboza, Genesis Barrientos, [...]
