Due to an increase of Covid-19 cases, high absenteeism, and staff shortages, USD 288 will not be in session on Friday, 1/14, Monday, 1/17, and Tuesday, 1/18. School will resume on Wednesday, 1/19.

We will hold a special board meeting tonight, January 12th at 6:30 to fill the board vacancy.
Congratulations to these middle school scholars! The CHMS Spelling Bee will be this Thursday, January 13, at 1:00pm.

Elementary Spelling Bee is this Friday, January 14, 2022! Congratulations to all of the participants. We wish you the best of luck on Friday!

Baseball PARENTS!!
Our annual baseball dinner is 1/25. We ask that each family provide some type of dessert for the meal. Brownies, pies, cookies, cupcakes, cakes, etc. We are also looking for parent volunteers to help serve that night. (I am sure your sons have already let you know this!!😉😉)
If you have any questions contact Coach Brown!
H.S. Basketball Tonight! (Girls only) The JV game starts at 5:30 p.m. followed by the varsity game. Go Vikings!

CHMS boys lose in the first round d of the FHJL tournament to Council Grove.
CHMS girls lose in the first round of the FHJL tournament to Osage City.
Anyone else love books? Look at these smiling faces on library checkout day!



Mrs. Smith’s group of readers using “buzzers” for reading fluency! All scores went up in one week! Great job!

We hosted our Jv/C team boys basketball tournament today. The A team in the 7th grade division went 2-0! The B team played well and went 1-1! The team in the 8th grade division went 1-1! It was a great day to be a Viking!!
Photos of wrestling action at Burlington



Please help us in congratulating Mellisa Wilson! We are so thankful to have you at Central Heights!

Here is the brackets for the boys and girls FHJL tournament next week at West Franklin.


Jv girls and varsity girls middle school basketball lose their games to Council rove tonight at home.
Come support our middle school basketball players tonight!

We can’t forget Gizmo!!

2 more of our classroom pets, society finches!

3 more of our middle school classroom pets! They are even school colors!!!


The winter band concert is tonight! Come on out and support these amazing musicians!

