Join us for Pound the Ground for the Kids 5K Sunday, February 21 inside the caves in the Space Center Executive Park. Money raised goes directly to the ISD PTA of your choice.
Bingham Middle School music teacher Philip Enloe won a Grammy Award at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards.
Van Horn’s JROTC cadets, the ‘Freezing Falcon’ team, along with several hundred others, took a dip in icy Longview Lake as part of the annual Polar Bear Plunge, a fundraiser for Special Olympics Missouri.
The ISD celebrated kindness week with students showing many ways to be kind. William Southern Elementary students decorated 500 paper bags and gave them to Hy-Vee (40 Highway and Noland) to give to customers to raise awareness about kindness week.
Thank you parents and students who joined us for Academy Jamboree! This was a wonderful opportunity for staff and business partners to share the exciting additions to our Career Academies for the 2016-2017 school year.
Independence Health Department (IHD) clinicians will come to the middle and high schools to administer Tdap and MCV immunizations in February.
Kody Broyles, Truman High School senior offensive lineman, was one of just 52 players nationwide selected to play against Canada in the 2016 International Bowl January 31.
For the first time in nearly 10 years, the Van Horn Falcon Mock Trial Team competed in a Kansas City district mock trial event.
William Chrisman High School senior Jaleea West won the John Olivarez Scholarship essay contest and Bingham Middle School eighth-grader Grace Bell won the middle school essay contest at the City of Independence Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration January 18.
Nearly 60 ISD eighth-grade girls got a glimpse into their potential future during the district’s annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Night inside Truman High School.
Holiday cheer came in the form of ‘goodie bags’ for staff and students of Fairmount Elementary, courtesy of the Liberty Ladies League.
Independence Academy’s senior class heard their teacher Alison Saunders talk about her love of sewing and quilting and decided to use those skills to make the holidays special for the staff, students and one very special organization.
This year, Thanksgiving was even more special for Angie Acevedo, nutrition center manager at Luff Elementary School.
The Bridger Choir, Band and Orchestra enjoyed sharing the sounds of the season at their Holiday Concerts.
Fairmount Elementary’s Third Graders did an amazing job performing “The Nutcracker”.
Thanks to an amazing staff, wonderful PTA and the generous help of LINC and our partnership with Title I, more than 300 people spent an evening this week at Randall Elementary to celebrate the holiday season.
The ISD has purchased the old YMCA building, just off Noland Rd. near Truman High School. The ISD plans to turn the facility into its facilities and nutrition services central warehouse.
In the true spirit of the season, ISD schools and employees raised nearly $19,000 during the Holiday Helpers Change Challenge.
Students in the Northwest Missouri State University- Kansas City’s newly-created Elementary Education Completion Program brought an early holiday gift to Fairmount Elementary.
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Pioneer Ridge Middle School student Levi Bartley has a knack for fixing things, especially bicycles. So Bartley, an eighth-grader, put those skills to work to make the holidays a little brighter for children in need.
Christian Ott Elementary and William Chrisman High School have been named National Schools of Character.
William Chrisman High School’s SkillsUSA members topped off a successful two week donation drive for the Independence SPCA by working with Westlake Ace Hardware at the Chrisman Plaza location November 21.
The ISD is one of seven Kansas City, Mo. area school districts receiving a KC HealthTracks grant to increase the number of low income and minority students entering post-high school health care training programs.
Truman High School’s Mauricio Martinez was named a Champion of Character award winner by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.
