The Mount Pleasant Independent School District Board of Trustees adopted the 2017-2018 school calendar at the March 27 meeting. Classes on MPISD classes will start Monday, August 21, 2017. Teachers will return on Monday, August 7 for two weeks of Staff Development and a Workday. Thanksgiving Break will be from Monday, November 20 through Friday, [...]
On Friday, March 3rd, twenty-eight members of the National Junior Honor Society (NJHS) at Mt. Pleasant Junior High School (MPJHS) traveled to Winfield ISD to read to their Kindergarten through 3rd grade students. What did they read? Well, since the day was celebrating the March 2nd birthday (a day [...]
Monday night (March 27th) at MPJHS there will be a meeting held for all 8th grade parents in the MPJHS gym. This event will go over course selections for the 2017–2018 9th grade school year. Meeting will start at 6:00pm!
Our Scholastic Book Fair will be here soon. This is a reading event that brings to school the books kids want to read by offering a wonderful selection of engaging and affordable books. Please make plans to visit our Book Fair March 3rd through March 10th and be involved in shaping your child’s reading habits. [...]
Four Mount Pleasant Junior High School students, one 7th grader and three 8th graders participated in the recent Region 8 Education Service Center Science Fair. Seventh grader Mackenzie Lide won 2nd place for her project on Metamerism, a perceived matching of the colors that, based on differences in spectral power distribution, do not actually match. [...]
Mount Pleasant Junior High School took 60 7th and 8th graders to the recent District 16-5A Middle School UIL Academic Meet and brought home multiple medals and ribbons. The 7th graders placed in 10 events while the 8th graders placed in 11. The 7th grade Art Team of Krystelle Alipao, Brian Bush and Adrian Garcia [...]
The Mount Pleasant High School Wildlife and the Mt. Pleasant Junior High School Outdoor Adventure classes got together to learn how to build emergency lean-to’s in the woods between the two campuses. “This is part of our survival unit,” said Van Bowen, who teaches both classes. “It’s goal is to teach our students what to [...]
We will be having a parent meeting at 6:00pm on February 27, 2017 in the MPJH gym. This meeting is for any student who is interested in either cheerleading or being a mascot for next year's team. A parent or guardian must be present at this meeting in order for the student to try-out. We [...]
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 [...]
Seventy 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 10). Forty-five 7th graders and twenty-five 8th graders became members of the Magna Cum chapter of the NJHS. They join the forty-one returning eighth grade members. [...]
