Mount Pleasant Junior High School 7th and 8th graders competed in the annual Middle School District UIL Academic Meet on Saturday, February 1 at Hallsville Junior High. MPJH had a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place team and brought home multiple individual medals. 7th grade results: Chess Puzzle Solving (1st place team) Yaden Villanueva 1st, Macon [...]
Five MPISD robotics teams representing P.E. Wallace Middle School and Mount Pleasant Junior High competed in the Texas Youth Robotics Alliance (TYRA) VEX IQ competition on Saturday, February 8 at Sulphur Springs Middle School. The competition featured 49 teams from the surrounding area. At the end of six qualification matches, the top 20 teams advanced [...]
The Mount Pleasant Junior High 8th grade girl’s basketball team won the district championship on Monday, February 3rd, going 7-0 in district play and 13-1 overall. Team members include Alahandra Craddock, Maliyah Fisher, Ruby Hulen, Madison McCoo, Samauria Shine, Katie Snyder, Dream Veasley, Karry-Ann Versailles, Elyn Villa, and A’leejiah Washington with managers Kiara Bishop, Aubree [...]
The Mount Pleasant Junior High School Cheerleaders participated in their final competition of the year at NCA Nationals in Dallas on January 24-26. MPJH Cheer competed in the Game Day Junior High/Middle School – Large division. They scored an 87.85 earning them 5th place in their division, just .3167 behind 4th place and .65 behind [...]
The Mount Pleasant High School and Mount Pleasant Junior High Cheerleaders closed out the fall competition at the NCA State of Texas Championship in Dallas on Saturday, December 14 with both teams placing in the top five in their divisions. MPJH competed in the Large Junior High/Middle School Game Day division with 5 other squads [...]
The Mount Pleasant Junior High Theatre department competed in the District 15-5A UIL One Act play competition on Saturday, December 15 at the Hallsville High School Performance Center. The cast and crew placed 3rd with three members receiving individual accolades. Eighth grader, Calvin Lee, received an All-Star Cast award for his performance as The Giver [...]
The Mount Pleasant Junior High cheerleaders competed in an NCA Virtual competition in November with the goal of qualifying for Nationals. NCA virtual competitions allow programs to submit recordings of their routines to be scored by an NCA trained judging panel. MPJH filmed their competition routines on Thursday, November 14 in the old gym at [...]
Seventy Mount Pleasant Junior High School students are now members of the National Junior Honor Society (NJHS) following the official induction ceremony on Tuesday, December 3 in the Mount Pleasant Junior High School gym. The new members join the 38 returning eighth-grade members bringing the total membership to 108. The new NJHS officers discussed the [...]
Fourteen Mount Pleasant Junior High School choir students were selected for places in the UIL Junior High All-Region Choir, with three more chosen as alternates. To earn a place in the choir, each singer had to learn three selections and sing parts of each in a blind audition. Those selected for the Region 4 TMEA/UIL [...]
Mount Pleasant Junior High School band students traveled to Pine Tree High School on Saturday, November 9 to audition for the TMEA Region IV MS/JH All-Region Band. Eight were selected for the All-Region Band, three in the Symphonic Band and five in the Concert Band. And for one student, Joshua Pantoja, this would be the [...]
