Rockwood News

Rockwood South Middle language arts teacher Kristen Engle has been named the 2024 Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE) Educator of the Year.

To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, Spanish teacher Jennifer Porter and librarian Melanie Barrett collaborated to hold a kickoff event that featured students' work on book trailers highlighting works by Hispanic authors and presentations in Spanish to fellow Wildwood students.

This school year marks the 25th anniversary of Blevins Elementary, and the school celebrated with a time capsule opening assembly and a community event. 

Marquette High has been named a Special Olympics National Banner Unified Champion School for its demonstrated commitment to inclusion.

Rockwood will conduct a test of its emergency notification system on the evening of Thursday, Sept. 12.

A total of seven student-athletes from five different sports and representing three Rockwood School District high schools were recognized in fall sports season preview articles by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Sept. 9-13 is National Arts in Education Week, a nationwide celebration of the transformative power of the arts in education. In the Rockwood School District, we are fortunate to enjoy the talent and dedication of fine arts educators like Rockwood Summit's Jeremy Loui, who encourage our students to create, perform/present, interpret, respond and connect with the arts!

Eureka High student Stephen Shaji and Marquette High’s Aryan Valsa Pradeep will get the chance to present research this fall that they performed during separate internships at Saint Louis University through the Partners in Education Summer Internship program.

"Forever Rockwood" is a series in which the Rockwood School District features alumni from Eureka, Lafayette, Marquette and Rockwood Summit high schools who make a lasting impact on their communities.

This week, Sept. 2-6, 2024, is National Payroll Week, an opportunity for Rockwood schools and offices to acknowledge and recognize the impactful work of our payroll and finance professionals.

Representatives from more than 90 institutions of higher learning, branches of the military and trade schools will be in attendance at this year’s Rockwood/Parkway Regional College Fair, which takes place from 6-7:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 9, at the Greensfelder Rec Complex at Queeny Park (550 Weidman Rd, Ballwin).

Edrance Emmanuel Jr. is the first teacher to return to the district after going through the Welcome Home Rockwood program, which supports Rockwood students and alumni who are inspired to become future educators in Rockwood schools.

All four high schools in Rockwood School District are ranked among the top 21 in Missouri and the top 12 percent of all public high schools in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report's "2024 Best U.S. High Schools" list.

Three recent Rockwood School District graduates earned hands-on field experience in ecology this summer through the Washington University in St. Louis Tyson Research Center in Eureka.

The wind ensembles from Eureka and Rockwood Summit high schools have been chosen to perform at the 2025 Missouri Music Educators Association (MMEA) In-Service Workshop and Conference, which will be held Jan. 28-Feb. 1 in Osage Beach.

Rockwood South Middle teachers participated in a back-to-school, Amazing Race-style activity on Aug. 13 as a fun, get-to-know-you game where 15 groups crisscrossed the building in small teams doing essential tasks to prepare for the school year.

In preparation for the 2024-2025 school year and in anticipation of Proposition 3 funds being available later this fall, the Rockwood Technology Department oversaw a massive tech refresh of Chromebooks and iPads this summer.

Monday, Aug. 19, is the first day of the 2024-2025 school year in the Rockwood School District, and students, staff and families celebrated in style! 

Step into any Rockwood classroom and you will likely find teachers organizing their spaces and finalizing lesson plans for their students. The first day of school is just around the corner, and Lafayette High guitar and music production teacher Traci Bolton is one of many district educators looking forward to welcoming students to a new school year on Aug. 19.

It was during the second semester of her senior year in high school when Lafayette High’s Teri Klein decided she wanted to go into teaching. After completing college education courses, she spent 16 weeks doing student teaching at a neighboring high school. Now, Klein is excited to join the Rockwood family.

Alice Liu, a 2024 Marquette High graduate, was one of four high school students from around the country to represent Team USA at the International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) this summer in Riyadh, Saudia Arabia. Here are some of her reflections from that experience.