Maquoketa Families,
Buses will be on hard surface roads only tomorrow, January 11th. If you are a family who cannot get to the hard surface road, please contact Transportation Director Hansen in the morning and he will work to arrange alternate transportation for your student.
Maquoketa Families,
Due to the weather forecast of large snowfall amounts and increasing winds, school will be cancelled for Tuesday, January 9th.
Be Safe,
Tara Notz
Superintendent
Maquoketa CSD
Students in Ms. Glick's and Mrs. Reuter's classes worked together to build gingerbread houses to celebrate winter break!
Congratulations to the boys and girls bowling team on some great wins against Marion!
Students in 7th grade Health worked their skills in the kitchen today making bread dough tacos!
Middle School Modified PE students challenged one another to some " Pin the nose on..." and wrapped our classmates up like snowmen!
Some 6th Graders in Forensic science class took a pause in between units and had STEM Choice Friday!
6th grade had fun dressing up for Winter Wonderland dress up day!
Please read our posted news article for an update about student, Ty Hinz, and a thank you to all of those who supported and cared for him during last night's basketball game. Ty’s family would like to share that he is at home recovering and at this time is doing well.
We have several teaching and para educator positions open at Maquoketa CSD. In interested please apply at iowaworks.gov or contact building administrators for detailed information about each position.
Text invitations for Rooms! Parents, many of you have created a Rooms account and are using this new tool to communicate with Maquoketa staff. A new round of text invitations was recently sent to those who have not yet logged into Rooms. If you received this text today, the document below provides helpful instructions for next steps!
Way to go Middle School Mock Trial teams! ALL 3 teams won both of their rounds. To accomplish this is unheard of! Thank you to Mrs. Wold, Josh Reicks and Sara Davenport for supporting our students. Teams finished
1st place - MT3 (State bound)
5th place - MT2
6th place - MT1
Following the play performance, Middle School students held a rock, paper scissors tournament. The kids had a blast cheering for each other. The grand champion was Mrs. Lanham with student, Iris Wagner being a very gracious runner up.
Maquoketa CSD is excited to announce the launch of our new website. The goal of the site is to provide timely, professional and systematic communication that celebrates our students, staff and families. Families will receive information on social media and via email by Friday, November 10th about how they can access our new district app and "Rooms", our two way communication platform between families and teachers.
Thank You to our staff and families for attending the Middle School Family Fun night last night! It was great to see so many students enjoying each other and the event.
Congratulations to MS student, Kaylin Novak who qualified as an Invitee to the Hooey Patriot rodeo in Las Vegas for barrel racing. This sport takes a lot of dedication, time, and commitment. We are proud of your accomplishments and good luck at your upcoming events.
