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Members of the Rockwood Strategic Plan Steering Committee interact at their first meeting.

The Rockwood School District Strategic Plan Steering Committee held its first meeting at the Administrative Annex on Sept. 10, embarking of the yearlong process of helping prepare for a new district strategic plan for 2025-2030.

  • Community
  • Early Childhood
  • Elementary
  • Gifted Education
  • High
  • Leadership
  • Learning
  • Middle
  • Pathways
  • Strategic Plan
  • Superintendent
  • Teamwork
Rockwood AFJROTC students present the colors at a school Patriot Day ceremony.

Sept. 11 marked the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and communities in the Rockwood School District marked the occasion by holding events to recognize and thank servicemembers and first responders.

  • Character
  • Community
  • Lafayette
  • Safety and Security
  • Teamwork
  • Woerther
Rockwood students learn in five separate pictures labeled Art, Blocks, Discovery, Library and Pretend, along with the Rockwood Early Childhood Education logo.

Rockwood half-day preschool provides a comprehensive, three-hour program that develops an increased understanding of the world by involving children in a variety of rich academic and social experiences, all within a warm welcoming environment. Get to know our half-day program by exploring our classroom learning centers!

  • Character
  • Community
  • Early Childhood
  • Learning
  • Preschool
  • Rockwood Early Childhood
  • Teamwork
A Rockwood band director smiles during marching band practice.

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!

  • Band
  • Fine Arts
  • Learning
  • Rockwood Summit
  • Teamwork
Rockwood students who participated in summer research internships smile in two separate pictures.

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.

  • College and Career
  • Community
  • Eureka High
  • Learning
  • Marquette
  • PIE Summer Internship Program
  • Partners in Education
  • Science
Rockwood alumnae who are now district educators smile in eight separate pictures, along with the "Forever Rockwood" logo.

"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.

  • Alumni
  • Blevins
  • Bowles
  • Community
  • Eureka Elementary
  • Eureka High
  • Forever Rockwood
  • Kehrs Mill
  • LaSalle Springs
  • Physical Education
  • Pond
  • Ridge Meadows
  • Special Education
  • Teamwork
  • Wildwood
  • Woerther
A Rockwood family meets with an admissions representative at a college fair.

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).

  • College and Career
  • High
  • Learning
  • Pathways
  • School Counseling
  • Teamwork
A Rockwood alumnus, now a district teacher, smiles in front of a Rockwood backdrop.

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.

  • Alumni
  • Diversity
  • Fine Arts
  • Green Pines
  • Human Resources
  • Music
  • Teamwork
  • Unity
  • Welcome Home Rockwood
Five Rockwood students smile outside a school on the first day of school.

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! 

  • Back to School
  • Character
  • Community
  • Early Childhood
  • Elementary
  • First Day of School
  • Gifted Education
  • High
  • Leadership
  • Learning
  • Middle
  • Partner
  • Pathways
  • Plan
  • Promise
  • Teamwork
Lafayette High teacher Traci Bolton tunes an acoustic guitar.

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.

  • 2024-2025 School Year
  • Crestview Middle
  • First Day of School
  • Lafayette High
Rockwood's newest educators smile in a group picture with Superintendent Dr. Curtis Cain.

Rockwood School District welcomed nearly 150 new educators, including Special School District instructors, during New Teacher Orientation at Rockwood Summit High from Aug. 7-9.

  • Back to School
  • Early Childhood
  • Elementary
  • High
  • Leadership
  • Learning
  • Middle
  • Teamwork
A Rockwood educator reads to a room full of students, along with a graphic reading "Back to School 2024-2025 Back-to-School Guide"

The first bell of the 2024-2025 school year in the Rockwood School District rings on Monday, Aug. 19! Check out our Back-to-School Guide to help get prepared for the year ahead.

  • Back to School
  • Community
  • Early Childhood
  • Elementary
  • Gifted Education
  • High
  • Leadership
  • Learning
  • Middle
  • Parent University
  • Partner
  • Pathways
  • Plan
  • Promise
  • Teamwork

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