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MPHS Senior Earns Academic All-American Award

Mount Pleasant High School senior, Anthony Orellana, has earned the National Speech and Debate Association’s Academic All-American award. Of the more than 141,000 student members of the Association, fewer than 1,000 students earn the Academic All-American Award every year. To date, only eleven team members from MPHS have ever earned this prestigious honor. The Academic [...]

2022-09-08T08:50:26-05:00

MPHS Cosmetology Program Elects Officers

The Mount Pleasant High School Cosmetology program has chosen its officers for the 2022-2023 school year. Leading the group are Senior President Juanita Gutierrez, Senior Vice President Wendy Carrillo, Junior President McKinsee Oviedo, and Junior Vice President Laiklyn Epps. MPHS Cosmetology is a highly selective, two-year, state licensed 1000-hour program involving the study of hair, [...]

2022-09-08T08:44:27-05:00

Mount Pleasant High School Students Earn AP Scholar Awards

Ten Mount Pleasant High School students have earned AP Scholar awards from the College Board for demonstrating outstanding college-level achievement through their performance on multiple Advanced Placement (AP) Exams. MPHS senior, Natalie Crockett, earned the AP Scholar designation by receiving scores of 3 or higher on three or more AP Exams. Nine members of the [...]

2022-09-07T14:08:54-05:00

Lady Tiger Volleyball Ends Five-Year Tourney Drought

It has been a long time coming for the Lady Tiger volleyball program as they brought home their first tournament hardware in half a decade this past weekend. Mount Pleasant won 10 games to only two losses to take the Mt Vernon tournament championship knocking off five teams along the way. In the opening round, [...]

2022-08-31T21:02:52-05:00

Tiger Tennis Sweeps Marshall to Open Season

The Mount Pleasant Tiger tennis team had an encouraging start to their year as they began their fall season on Thursday at Marshall.  The first semester season consists of team tennis which has each player competing in a singles and doubles match.  Mount Pleasant went a perfect 12-0 winning every match they played against the [...]

2022-08-31T21:38:29-05:00

MPHS Theatre Announces First Production of the 2022-2023 Season

The MPHS Rough Theatre Company presents Kim Merrill’s Finding Claire September 8, 13, and 15 in the Studio Theatre in the Mount Pleasant High School Performing Arts Center. The play begins at 6:30 p.m. and features Ashanti Presley as Rachel, Nayeli Rivera as Clair, Dani Palomo as Bridget, and Sadera Lampard as Lilly. The play [...]

2022-09-07T14:05:48-05:00

Attention Juniors & Seniors: Sign Up for Balfour Reminders

Juniors and Seniors go to heygrad.net to sign up with Balfour for reminders about Cap, Gown and Tassel, graduation rings and letter jacket orders.  Scan the QR code that will take you to heygrad.net. Balfour hopes to place the first order sometime in September.  Each month a reminder with a deadline will be texted to [...]

2022-08-29T22:27:55-05:00