Monticello Live

American Legion Commander Randy Gavin and Commander Glen Kellebrew presented a check for $200 to Travarus Shead.

The American Legion sponsors one student to attend Boys State and this year Shead is the recipient.

Travarus is in the 11th grade at Drew Central High School.  Commanders Gavin and Kellebrew, as well as all members, are proud to wish him all the best.

Looking forward to a busy year for the 2019-2020 school year are the Drew Central Jr. High Cheerleaders.

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Drew Central Superintendent Kim Barnes describes her feelings as, “Thankful and blessed,”  as she described on this morning’s phone call that a Drew Central School bus had been in a wreck. (more…)

Introducing your 2019-2020 Drew Central Junior High Cheerleaders (more…)

Left to Right: DC Gearheads: Jacob Hall, Lane Berryman, Hunter Rhodes, Paden Defir, Jeremy Smith, Anna Coleman and Parker Duncan

On Saturday, March 9, 2019, the DC Gearheads competed at the STATE Vex Robotics Championships. They did well in the morning qualification rounds by going 6-1 for the day. (more…)

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Each year Drew Central Elementary and the Middle School students help SEARK Reading Council collect money for the Heifer Project. (more…)

Drew Central’s Gifted and Talented Program is excited to share their latest project.  They have started recycling at the Middle School. The GT students noticed how many students and faculty drink from a plastic bottle every day.  They decided to start recycling plastic bottles. (more…)

After the unexpected passing of Drew Central superintendent Billy Williams, last September, the board named assistant superintendent Kim Barnes as interim.
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Thanks to an invention called “snow at home,” even though Mother Nature did not provide snow across Southeast Arkansas, it was still available at Drew Central Elementary, yesterday morning.

DC elementary school was so excited to have Craig O’Neill from THV11 to come to our school, recently.

He read to a Kindergarten class and all of the second grade classes!

Click Here For Drew Central 2nd Nine Weeks Academic Achievement Awards

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Drew Central fourth graders, parents, and teachers met for a DC Family Movie day on Sunday, November 4th.  The movie was The Nutcracker and the Four Realms based on the story by E.T.A. Hoffmann.  The music in the movie,Tchaikovsky’s score, has become one of the most famous compositions.

Drew Central High School Honor Roll

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Drew Central High Schools FBLA was honored Wednesday, Oct. 3, at the District III Fall Leadership Conference in Pine Bluff for outstanding service to the Monticello area food pantry, Salvation Army Ringing of the Bell, Angel Tree Project, and Adopt a Family Christmas offering. Also, there was a special recognition for their Bucket Challenge for Healthy Babies project for March of Dimes.

Proud Pirates we are!!!!!

Drew Central fourth graders invited their grandparents to join them for lunch in honor of National Grandparents’ Day.  Students were treated to a Coretta Scott King Honor book read aloud titled When I Am Old with You authored by Angela Johnson.  The bond between grandparent and grandchild  transcends time, and sometimes transcends an adult’s sense of logic, reaching a deeper level of truth.

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