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These 8th graders participated in the Region VIII ESC Science Fair.  These students should be commended for all of their hard work! Picture:  Laura Sanchez, Conner Nelson, Khalil Lacy-Rhymes, Brian Ramirez

Mount Pleasant Junior High School Choir students attended the Junior High Solo and Ensemble Contest at Greenville Middle School Saturday, January 30.  Three of the students earned Division 1’s, the top score a student can receive, while one earned a Division 2. Eighth graders Rachell Moreno and Karrigan Brown and 7th grader Breanna Daffern earned [...]

One hundred and four 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 Monday night (January 26). Forty-five 7th graders and fifty-nine 8th graders became members of the Magna Cum chapter of the NJHS. They join the sixteen returning [...]

The Mount Pleasant Junior High Outdoor Adventure class is the recipient of a composite wildlife feeder donated by The Hunters Seminar Committee and Boss Buck Wildlife Company. “The Hunter Seminar Committee and the Boss Buck Wildlife Company were happy to get involved in this program to help young people become aware of wildlife and the [...]

January is School Board Recognition Month in Texas. During the January 19th 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 Ezeal [...]

Father and son trappers Travis and Bart Covin from Diana, Texas spent one morning recently talking to students in Van Bowen’s Outdoor Adventure Class at Mount Pleasant Junior High School. The team brought along a collection of different types of traps and explained their uses. They also talked about the need for the use of [...]

The Mount Pleasant High School and Mount Pleasant Junior High School Choirs will present a free Christmas concert in the MPHS Cafeteria Thursday, December 3 at 7 p.m. Dessert and coffee will be served and donations will be accepted to benefit local charities. The concert will involve the High School and Junior High choirs singing [...]

Twenty-two Mt. Pleasant Junior High School band students have qualified for the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) Region IV Middle School All-Region Band. Thirteen students qualified for the Concert Band and nine qualified for the Symphonic Band. “I am so proud of all the MPJH students who auditioned for the All-Region band,” said MPJHS Band [...]

Congratulations to Mrs. Brown's class for winning the canned food drive!

The Andy Morris Gymnasium at Mount Pleasant Junior High School has new scoreboards thanks to two local businesses. 271 Express/Arby’s of Mount Pleasant and Sandlin Motors, Inc. each donated a scoreboard to the District to update the MPJHS facilities which are used for volleyball, boys and girls basketball, and physical education classes at the school. [...]