
October 29, 2021
DTSOI PAC Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
Dedication of the Pat Ellison Performing Arts Center The Pat Ellison Performing Arts Center is named after Patricia A. "Pat" Ellison. M...

October 26, 2021
Springdale EAST Students and Shelly Poage Present
Shelly Poage, principal of John Tyson Elementary School, and two Springdale EAST students presented before an internation...

October 22, 2021
This November, Megan Brazle, Springdale High German Teacher, will be honored with the 2021 Checkpoint Charlie Foundation Award at the national conference of the American Associati...

October 20, 2021
Jennier Raabe has been named assistant principal at J.O. Kelly Middle School.
"I am super excited to return to the school where I began my teaching career. I am extremely grate...

March 3, 2021
KELLY BOORTZ – PRINCIPAL, DON TYSON SCHOOL OF INNOVATION Kelly Boortz has roots in Georgia but quickly grew connected to the Springdale School District. When J.B. Hunt Transport ...

March 1, 2021
Dr. Coby Davis literally gave blood to get a job in the Springdale School District. Scheduled to be interviewed for a teaching job at Sonora Middle School, Davis accidentally cut...

February 26, 2021
Paul Griep’s parents never went to college but his mother wanted him to. It was a high school Spanish teacher who took enough interest in Griep to convince him to pursue higher ed...

February 24, 2021
Springdale High School principal Jason Jones has no idea where he would be if he had neverknown Kevin Brown. Living in a travel trailer in a junkyard, Jones struggled until he swi...

February 9, 2021
DEREK RATCHFORD SELECTED AS GROSVENOR TEACHER FELLOW Sonora Middle School EAST instructor Derek Ratchford is only the second teacher from Arkansas ever selected as a Grosvenor Te...

January 13, 2021
SHAY HOPPER LOVES CHOICE Shay Hopper loves choice. She always has. That’s why she loves the choices the Springdale Public School District offers its students. In her role as assis...

December 2, 2020
Chelsea Jennings of Lakeside Junior High has been named Arkansas Secondary School Assistant Principal of the Year by the Arkansas Association of Educational Administrators.
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October 26, 2020
DTSOI INDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE DEDICATION
“The state needs to have a thousand facilities like this one,” said Arkansas Lieutenant Governor Tim Griffin at the dedication...

October 14, 2020
Bernice Young Elementary School has been named a 2020 Exemplary High Performing National Blue Ribbon School by the United States Department of Education. “I commend you for stri...

September 22, 2020
Jennifer Taunton, a gifted and talented teacher at Linda Childers Knapp Elementary School and Jennifer Malugen, a GT instructor at Monitor Elementary, are among the five teachers ...

September 9, 2020
Steven Silvey moved from Oklahoma to Springdale as he was set to begin the third grade. He didn’t know anyone and he was quiet and shy. His teacher, Cindy Paxson, made the transit...
August 26, 2020
Forbes Magazine has ranked Springdale Public Schools number four on its Best-in-America Employers list for Arkansas. Of entities based in Arkansas, only Arc Best in Fort Smith (nu...

August 17, 2020
Shelly Porter, who just joined the Westwood Elementary staff as Library Media Specialist, is one of only 98 teachers in the U.S. to have participated in the National History Day s...


August 7, 2020
Here is the schedule for Students taking classes virtually or blended to pick up Chromebooks at the Don Tyson School of Innovation.