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MPHS Academic UIL Team Wins Big at North Lamar

For the second time this year, the Mount Pleasant High School Academic UIL team brought home the first-place trophy. This time it was from the North Lamar Meet where the MPHS team beat 21 teams. They earned 355 points, 116 more than the second-place team from Princeton High School. Mt. Pleasant took first place in [...]

2017-01-26T14:59:08-06:00

Thirty-nine MPHS FBLA Students Advance to State Competition

Future Business Leaders of America students competed in the Area VI FBLA Leadership Conference Wednesday at Region 8 and had a very successful day with 39 students advancing to state! They will compete at the FBLA State Leadership Conference in San Antonio on March 23-25. Taking first place was Harper Davis in Advertising, the team [...]

2017-01-26T14:02:56-06:00

School Board Recognition

January is School Board Recognition Month in Texas. During the January 17th School Board meeting MPISD Board members were presented with gifts from District campuses and certificates thanking them for their service to the District’s students and staff. Students from our campuses were enlisted to help hand out the certificates. Presenting the certificate to Board [...]

2017-01-25T14:25:34-06:00

MPHS Debate Coach Earns National Honor

Cody Morris, Mt. Pleasant High School Speech and Debate coach, has been awarded the National Speech and Debate Association’s Distinguished Service Key. Morris earned the Key because of his 20 citations reflecting, according to the Association’s Executive Director J. Scott Wunn,  “an outstanding commitment to the service of others” and the betterment of the Speech [...]

2017-01-24T12:17:41-06:00

MPHS Cheerleaders Compete at UIL Spirit Championship

The Mount Pleasant High School Cheerleaders went to their first UIL Spirit Championship competition in Fort Worth Wednesday and Thursday and came back home ranked 12th out of the 112 5A teams in the state of Texas they competed against. “I am so proud of them,” said Cheer Coach Jaton Broach.  “It was stiff competition [...]

2017-01-12T13:44:48-06:00

Electrical Trades Scholarship Winners

Recipients of the 2016-2017 Mt. Pleasant Electrical Trade Scholarship are Mt. Pleasant High School 2015 graduates Andy Sermeno and Isidoro Hernandez. Sermeno is currently attending Tyler Junior College and plans to major in Power Plant Technology. Hernandez is attending Northeast Texas Community College and plans to major in Engineering. Both Sermeno and Hernandez went through [...]

2017-01-05T16:39:48-06:00

MPHS UIL Academic Team Takes 1st Place at Sulphur Springs Meet

The Mt. Pleasant High School UIL Academic team brought home gold from the Sulphur Springs UIL Academic Meet this past weekend. That gold? First Place and Sweepstakes! “The students we took to the Sulphur Springs UIL Academic Meet this past weekend spent hours preparing for the contest and it sure paid off,” said UIL Sponsor [...]

2016-12-08T13:03:48-06:00

MPISD Bands Present Christmas Concert

The Mount Pleasant ISD Bands will present their annual Christmas Concert Tuesday, December 13 at 7 p.m. in the MPHS Auditorium. The MPJHS Varsity  Band, MPHS Jazz Band, MPJHS Honor Band and Symphonic Bands will perform. Cost is $2 with children under 5 free. For more information on the concert, contact Mt. Pleasant High School [...]

2016-12-13T10:02:25-06:00