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Parent Night for 8th grade students will be held on Tuesday, February 13 at 5:30pm in the MPJH Gym.  The High School Counselors will be present to speak with parents about high school schedules and degree plans.  Pizza will be provided by CIS.

Mount Pleasant Junior High School took forty-five 7th and 8th graders to the recent District 16-5A Middle School UIL Academic Meet in Hallsville and brought home multiple medals and ribbons. The 7th graders placed in seven events while the 8th graders placed in ten. The 7th grade Chess Puzzle Solving Team of Justin Baxter, Ky [...]

Congratulations to our own Coach Van Bowen who was recently awarded Citizen of the Year! We are so proud of you Coach Bowen! Thank you for all you have done and continue to do for the students of MPISD.

January is School Board Recognition Month in Texas. During the January 22nd 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 [...]

The Mt. Pleasant Junior High 7th grade boys and girls basketball teams both brought home 1st place trophies from their tournaments this weekend! The girls won the North Lamar Stone Middle School Tournament.  They played Paris (32-18), Pittsburg (33-7) and finally North Lamar for the championship game and won (33-8). The boys won the Idabel [...]

Mount Pleasant Junior High School Debate Team members Connelly Cowan and Ava Bliss participated in the Sachse High School Debate Tournament.  They went 4-1 for the day and placed 2nd in the Novice Category.  Cowan was named Top Speaker. Connelly, the daughter of Collin and Kelly Cowan, is an 8th grader. Ava, the daughter of Thomas [...]

Over 100 Mount Pleasant Junior High School seventh and eighth grade students are now members of the National Junior Honor Society (NJHS) following the official induction ceremony Tuesday night (January 9). Fifty-nine 7th graders and fifty 8th graders became members of the Magna Cum chapter of the NJHS. They join the thirty-four returning eighth grade [...]

Dr. Jeff Turner has been named the new Principal at Mount Pleasant Junior High School. Dr. Turner joined Mt. Pleasant ISD in 1990 as a paraprofessional, working in the business office doing Risk Management and coaching at Mt. Pleasant High School (MPHS). In 2001 he moved to MPHS full-time as a business teacher in the [...]