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Broadcast partnership brings school events to your living room With rain falling steadily under the bright Friday night lights, the Battle Ground High School football team is closing out its season in front of a raucous Homecoming crowd. The football team is doing its part to keep Read more →
Pleasant Valley Primary 3rd graders help endangered butterflies Armed with little more than pencils, clipboards, and their own ingenuity, the third graders in teacher Talea Jones’ class at Pleasant Valley Primary School are working to solve quite the complex problem: how can they, acting as ecologists and Read more →
Two Battle Ground educational leaders recognized as ‘Real Heroes’ Lydia Sanders, Battle Ground Public Schools’ coordinator of the Family and Community Resource Center, and Colleen O’Neal, president of the Battle Ground Education Foundation, were both recognized last week as “Learn Here Real Heroes” at the fourth annual Read more →
Battle Ground High School Drama presents ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ Battle Ground High School Drama presents “The Diary of Anne Frank” beginning Nov. 8. An impassioned drama about the lives of eight people hiding from the Nazis in a concealed storage attic, this important and thought-provoking Read more →
Members of the STRIPES program were acknowledged by the Battle Ground City Council in honor of the program's longevity and positive impact in the community. BGHS STRIPES program keeps freshmen on path to success For some students, the transition from middle to high school is an intimidating Read more →
Prairie High School Drama presents 'Chicago' Prairie High School Drama presents “Chicago” beginning Oct. 26. Set in the “Windy City” during the Roaring Twenties, chorus girl Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband, Amos, to take the rap. That is, until Amos finds Read more →
Sept. 18, 2018 Dear Battle Ground Public Schools staff, families, and community, The last three weeks have been difficult for our school district. Everyone—our students and families, teachers and classified staff and community members—has been impacted in some way by negotiations. The difficulty was not ours alone. Read more →
Welcome to the 2019-20 school year! The beginning of school is always an exciting time of year, and we are eagerly awaiting the return of our nearly 13,000 students next week! We all hope that our students and their families were able to take full advantage of Read more →
Access to technology shapes learning for Battle Ground students When students take their seats in Pleasant Valley Middle School teacher Tyler Tugaw’s class, the first thing they do is open their computers and begin typing. A casual observer might assume that this class is focused on technology Read more →
Battle Ground students receive Chromebooks through pilot technology program Battle Ground Public Schools is launching a 1:1 (one-to-one) computing initiative that will put a Chromebook into the hands of every student in grades 3-12 for use at school and at home. Seventh grade students at three middle Read more →