ELWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOLS

by Kass Salisbury The Elwood Pirate Speech Team has been successful so far this year. The season is coming to an end and members are gearing up for districts. This is Nicole Sal...

by Aubrey Vacura Preschool students are developing important early literacy skills, such as identifying letters, matching letters to sounds, and writing their full names with the...

by Gavin Tilson Jaci Muegerl is a senior who plans to further her education at the University of Nebraska-Kearney, majoring in business administration with a minor in accounting....

by Zack Christner Quentin Loontjer has had a good time coaching JH Quiz Bowl thus far this year. He said he believes that this year will be a good year for the activity as th...

by Paisley Nieman The eager-to-learn first graders are staying busy, and here is what’s going on in the first grade classroom right now! They are currently working on plac...

On February 24, 2025, Kara Brockman, Noelle Rand, and Kass Salisbury attended the Peer Education Conference in Kearney Nebraska. At this conference, students have the opportunity...

by Steven Duran Alex White has been attending Elwood Public Schools since Kindergarten. Now he is a senior and is looking forward to attending Northeast Community College in ...

by Bree Corey The Elwood High School Quiz Bowl Team is having a great year so far! Ben Edgecombe, the Quiz Bowl coach, explained how the team’s practices are important to the...

by Noah Rand Senior Jeremiah Nun is getting ready for graduation. Nun has competed on the esports team for Elwood. Looking back he said really enjoyed guitar class and got q...

by Kassandra Salisbury Beth Fisher is Elwood’s Family and Consumer Sciences teacher, as well as the FCCLA Chapter Advisor; this is her third year being the FCCLA advisor. Ther...

by Zack Christner Elwood Senior Kory Hort participated in many different sports while in high school. He was on the football team, basketball team, FFA team, trap team, and g...

by Paisley Nieman As the 6th graders stay busy here are a few updates on what’s going on in their classroom! Some skills in language arts that they are working on are understan...

by Gavin Tilson Steven Duran is one of the students graduating from Elwood High School at the end of this school year. He has aspirations to go into radiologic technology after ...

by Aubrey Vacura Brooke Gegenbach’s second-grade students are currently working on several key skills across different subjects. In math, they are focusing on adding three-digi...

By Noah Rand Elwood senior Kassandra Salisbury has been in several extracurricular activities throughout her high school career. She was involved in FCCLA, speech team, one act ...

By Aubrey Vacura Mrs. Nickell, Elwood’s music teacher, and her students worked hard over the last couple months to prepare for this year’s Christmas program. Nickell shared some...

by Gavin Tilson Zack Christner has attended Elwood Public Schools since grade 3. As a senior, he is now looking back on his time at Elwood, while looking forward to obtaining a ...

By Paisley Nieman Cheyenne Fitzgerald and her kindergarten students are always having fun! The students are currently learning about high frequency words, long vowel sounds, a...

By Bree Corey With graduation just down the road a bit, Elwood senior Kaylin Hafner is making graduation preparations. As she reflected on her twelve years at Elwood Public Sch...

By Kassandra Salisbury The 9th grade English class is doing speech class curriculum during the first semester of the year, focusing on many communication and organization skill...