Schools

Sauk Prairie High School administrators are looking to change the way students are academically assessed. Sauk Prairie High School Principal Chad Harnisch proposed the laude system for assessing students at the Nov. 11 school board meeting.

Students from Sauk Prairie High School were inducted into membership of the Jacob Barth Chapter of the National Honor Society at an evening candle lighting ceremony at 6:00 p.m. in the River Arts Center on Monday, October 21st.

Bray Architects updated the Wisconsin Heights School Board on a potential single campus layout at the Nov. 11 meeting. The District is very early in the stages of examining potential solutions.

The Wisconsin Heights School District approved the 2019-20 budget at the annual meeting on Oct. 28. Taxpayers will see the District portion of their tax bill drop from $11.16 per $100,000 of equalized value to $10.84, a 2.8 percent drop.

The 2019 Sauk Prairie High School Homecoming Court was: Back row: Brooks Leister, Colby Elsing, Garrett Hertzfeldt, Parker Breunig, Dayton Goette, Riley Jelinek, Thomas Jaedike, missing Abrahan Castro. Front row: Aimee Maasch, Hannah Kruckman, Cassi Miller, Kelsey Selden, Haley Greenheck, Macy Breunig, Leah Weigel, and Savannah Brickman.

Amy Brehm, principal at Merrimac Charter School started off the Sauk Prairie school board meeting by sharing highlights from the school. “Just to remind everyone we are a project based, multi-age, agriculture school so you will see those themes in action,” said Brehm.

A group of over 30 Sauk Prairie High School students braved the cold and blustery winds for several hours on Wednesday October 16th to help collect native prairie seeds from the restored Kindschi Prairie along Highway 12 north of Sauk City.

The September Above The Line theme at Grand Avenue School was “Caring.” The students listed below received awards on Friday, September 27, from their classroom teacher who felt that they are a caring individual. Congratulations to these students! Left to right:

Graduating Wisconsin Heights area high school seniors who enlist in any branch of the military are now eligible receive financial benefits from the Ben Jackson Foundation – a local area non-profit in New Glarus.

Wisconsin Heights held its homecoming last weekend, featuring dress-up week and a parade. Pictured above is the 2019 Homecoming Court on Cowboy Day. Back Row: Dylan Gee, Jack Fields, Ozur Kepler, William Hanson, Tanner Gee, Alex Levoy. Front Row: Abby Wolfe, Liz Strait, Sydney Bonilla, Natalie Hering, Yovana Sveum-Mondragon, Katie Vosburg.