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A total of seven Marquette High students earned top-six finishes at the 2025 Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) National Leadership Conference, including one team that won a national championship.
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Recent Rockwood School District graduates Maleah Eggers, Caleb Mitchell, James Tse and Nolan Zink of Marquette High and Mary Jenna Hails and Charlie Heppe of Lafayette High are among the first round of this year’s College-Sponsored National Merit Scholarship winners.
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Rockwood School District celebrated our more than 1,600 graduates in the Class of 2025 at commencement ceremonies on May 10 and 12 at the Family Arena in St. Charles.
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Deleena Mehrotra, a rising Marquette High sophomore, has earned the Congressional Award Bronze Medal, recognizing initiative, service and achievement.
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A total of seven students from five Rockwood School District schools earned recognition in this year's Missouri regional round of the national Scholastic Writing Awards contest.
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Greta Clark, a 2024 Eureka High graduate, was crowned Miss Missouri's Teen in June and will compete in the Miss America's Teen competition in September in Orlando, Florida.
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Lily Benz, a rising freshman at Eureka High, earned first in Missouri in the middle school division of the Spring 2025 InvestWrite essay competition, the nation's premier youth financial writing contest.
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Rising senior Pushpa Voleti reflects on her time participating in this year's Missouri Girls State program at Lindenwood University.
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Nearly 40 Rockwood School District students participated in a hands-on, weeklong experience of leadership, citizenship and democracy at the Missouri Boys State and Missouri Girls State programs.
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A total of 31 Rockwood School District spring sports student-athletes representing all four high schools earned All-Metro recognition from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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The Rockwood School District announced its revised free and reduced price policy for the 2025-2026 school year for students unable to pay the full price of meals served in schools under the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program.
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Lafayette High student Mahi Chechani is further exploring her interest in women's health, biology and genetics during her PIE summer internship at Missouri Baptist Medical Center.
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Crestview Middle eighth-grade history teacher Meghan Menchella is one of six teachers from around the country who earned a fellowship to the Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes in Fort Scott, Kansas.
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The Marquette High team of Amanda Moi, Dhruv Chakravarthula, Siddharth Sawant and Yvette Yaroshenko earned fourth place in Senior Group Documentary at the national level of the National History Day competition, the highest level a Rockwood entry has ever achieved.
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A total of 12 Rockwood School District students participated in a unique summer learning and personal development experience at the annual Missouri Scholars Academy.
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Recent Lafayette High graduate Abby Carr earned the 2024-2025 Gatorade Missouri Softball Player of the Year award, celebrating her as the top state athlete in her sport for excellence on the field, in the classroom and in the community.
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When Ben Haugen qualifed for the national geography and history bee championships, his family made a vacation out of it and signed up his father, Brett, to compete in the "Parents' Bee."
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Rising Marquette High senior Dhruv Bhosekar is getting the opportunity to learn from 2018 Marquette graduates Akash Sarkar, Vinai Kumar and Neel Bute as a Partners in Education intern at Ad Astra Autism Centers this summer.
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Students and recent graduates representing the Lafayette High and Marquette High chapters of the HOSA - Future Health Professionals club earned accolades at the HOSA International Leadership Conference, which was held June 18-21 in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Rockwood Summit High hosted educators from eight states at a Geometry in Construction (GIC) training session during the week of June 16.
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A total of 36 spring sports student-athletes -- 21 girls and 15 boys -- representing all four Rockwood School District high schools earned All-District, All-State or All-America recognition in baseball, lacrosse, soccer, volleyball and water polo.
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"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.
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Eighth-graders at LaSalle Springs Middle played key roles in designing and building two new lecterns for use at Rockwood School District graduation ceremonies as part of the Need Squad wood shop AcLab group.
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Rockwood School District Coordinator of Social Studies 6-12 Dr. Jordan McGaughey and Crestview Middle eighth-grade history teacher Meghan Menchella played key roles in developing and presenting an awards program and professional learning opportunity for new state educators.
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The Rockwood Board of Education has approved the hiring of Adam Ball as an interim assistant principal at Eureka High, effective July 1.
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