Elm Creek Public School District

This kid keeps raising the bar! Ethan improved from a 33 to a 34 on the ACT! I have had the privilege of working with this amazing young man since Kindergarten! Ethan has put in countless UNSEEN hours to reach his goals. He was in the gym a little before 6 a.m. getting extra shots up and preparing for basketball season. Ethan has always understood that achieving goals requires a process, hard work, and a willingness to embrace challenges. Those efforts have led to some amazing accomplishments! Keep pushing, Ethan! Love Blue, Live Gold!!

Elm Creek Public Schools
Regular Board of Education Meeting

Monday, November 9, 2026
6:00 p.m.
Room #801 – South Side Door #2

t's time for our annual "Give Where You Live" Elm Creek Foundation for Success Change Wars!

We will have change jugs set up by the main entrance for the next couple of weeks.

Here's how it works:

Add COINS to your jug to increase your total!

Add PAPER BILLS to your competitors' jugs to bring their totals down. All paper bills placed in a jug will count against the coins collected in that jug!

The goal is to get your jug's total as HIGH as possible using coins while trying to bring down the competition with paper bills!

Good luck, and may the best jug win!

GO BUFFS!!

Join us in our challenge to donate towards the purchase of gifts for the Community Elves Christmas tree project. The Intro to Business class is challenging Kindergarten - 6th grade with the most donations to a Root Beer Float party. As a bonus, the class is playing fun games and activities with each class throughout the promotion. Donations are accepted through November 13th and may be turned in to the classroom teacher.

Student of the Month is Mark Redwine! Mark helped a teacher with the trash, picked up after another student, and was extremely polite to one of his classmates. Mark is always willing to lend a helping hand whenever it is needed! Congrats, Mark! Love Blue, Live Gold!!!

The seventh graders did a great job decorating the music/band room door!

Student's in Mrs. Killions PE classes Friday had fun playing Ghostbusters. Student's each had a ghost they had to protect if the ghost got knocked down the student had an exercise to do before standing their ghost back up. They did great and had so much fun.

Halloween fun in PE Friday with Mrs. Killion playing Ghostbusters. They had so much fun and did great.

Little "Thriller" action with a guest appearance from the King of Pop! EC is ready to Trick or Treat!!!!!!

THE 2026 HALLOWEEN DOOR DECORATING RESULTS ARE IN!!!! 🎃👻 The winners are.... Elementary- Mrs. Holland and Duke High School- Mr. High

🎃 Trunk or Treat Tonight! 👻

Reminder: Trunk or Treat is tonight in the school parking lot from 5:00–6:30 PM! Please make sure all parked cars are moved out of the parking lot by 4:00 PM so our trucks can get set up.

Thanks for helping us make this a fun evening for Buffalo Nation! 💙💛🦬

📢 Absentee Alert System Notice

We are currently experiencing issues with our absentee alert system. Normally, if your child is marked absent and we have not received a call from you explaining their absence, you would receive a phone call from the school.

Unfortunately, that system is temporarily not working. We are working to resolve the issue and apologize for any confusion or inconvenience this may cause.

Thank you for your patience and understanding!

The FFA Labor Auction is about to start. Thanks to everyone that is here to help out our FFA!

🎉 A HUGE shoutout to Elm Creek senior Courtney Jensen for scoring an impressive 32 on the ACT in October! Courtney’s outstanding achievement earns her a spot on the 30+ Record Board and the ACT Wall of Fame (32+)! Way to go, Courtney! We are so proud of you! 💙💛🦬

Tonight is the night, we can't wait to see everyone this evening for our FFA Labor Auction. Thank you for supporting our FFA members!

Today Mrs. Schopke's 3rd graders played a few rounds of musical chairs, which included practicing their spelling words! We all enjoyed getting in some extra movements/music and the extra spelling practice!

Look what's happening at the greenhouse. A big THANK YOU to Bauer Underground for doing the boring work and getting our gas line installed and hooked up! This will expand learning opportunities for our students in the cold months!🙌🪴🦬

Elm Creek FFA will be hosting our labor auction on Thursday evening at 6:30pm. Please join us in the vintage gym for a soup supper followed by the auction. We are auctioning off 4 hours of each members time, which can be redeemed by the buyer at any time over the next year. All proceeds go to funding our FFA chapter for the year and help us cover expenses such as room/board at State and National Convention, entry fees for contests, meals, and awards at our end of the year banquet. We will also have 30 mums for sale that were grown by our plant science class. The Labor Auction and Plant Sales will serve as our only fundraisers for the 26-27 school year. We look forward to seeing everyone and can’t wait to help you “Buy a Buff”!