Gentry (sr) and Kale (fr) Hartman exhibited their cattle. Gentry’s steer was selected as the Grand Champion Market Steer, and her heifer was selected as the Grand Champion Heifer. Kale’s steer was selected as the Reserve Champion Market Steer. Congratulations on their success! #Celebrate379
USD 379 2026-2027 Enrollment is Now Open!
Enrollment for the 2026-2027 school year is now open!
Returning Students: Please use the Snapcode that was emailed to you to finish enrollment. If you did not get your Snapcode, please contact your child's school building starting July 22 for help.
New Students to USD 379: Please complete the New Student Enrollment form. A Snapcode is not needed for new student enrollment. Head to our enrollment page to enroll.
Visit www.usd379.org/enroll for everything you need to get ready for the new school year, including:
Enrollment information
School supply lists
Physical forms
Free and Reduced-Price Meal applications
After-school program registration
And much more!
District staff will be available on August 4-5 to help families with enrollment questions and offer in-person enrollment support.
Be sure to follow our social media pages! We will keep sharing important updates, reminders, and back-to-school information all summer until the first day of school. We can't wait to see you!
As part of her departure from teaching, 45-year veteran teacher and coach Laura Pollman did not want celebrations. Like Douglas MacArthur, she preferred to fade away. Instead, she has paraphrased ideas from General Douglas MacArthur, which reflects the goals she had as a teacher.
Help me raise a person who is strong enough to see when they’re struggling and brave enough to face their fears; someone who can be proud in defeat and kind in victory.
Create a person whose actions match their wishes; someone who understands that knowing themselves is the key to true understanding.
Guide them not just to easy paths but through challenges that help them grow. Let them learn to be strong in tough times and to have compassion for those who are struggling.
Help them have a good heart and high goals, someone who controls themselves before trying to lead others, one who looks to the future but remembers the past.
And when they have all these qualities, give them a sense of humor, so they can be serious but not take themselves too seriously. Help them stay humble, so they remember what true greatness, wisdom, and strength really mean.
Then I, their guide, will feel proud and say, “I have not lived in vain.”
USD 379 Families,
Last night’s rain has compromised the basement area at Garfield Elementary, which is also a shelter in the event of inclement weather. We don’t normally close school based on forecasts, as we feel our students and staff are very safe in all of our buildings. However, in this case, we would need to transport students to other buildings, which is impractical and unsafe. We also utilize the same buses within multiple buildings for after-school transportation, which makes dismissing just Garfield impractical.
Because of this, USD 379 will have a 1 pm dismissal today.
Lunch will be served as usual. All after-school sports practices and evening activities, including Project LEAD, have also been canceled. No afternoon preschool. Please call the school with any changes to your child’s after-school schedule.
Mr. Pfizenmaier and Mrs. Schooley are looking forward to having more students complete this certificate next year! #Celebrate379
Thanks to the CCCHS Student Council, select Garfield students who met their independent reading goals got to compete in a basketball game against StuCo members today! This game had it all: Intense fans, outgoing cheerleaders, demanding coaches, and even some technical fouls against the seniors! #Celebrate379