Thank you to the First United Methodist Church of Mena for supplying the books 📚 for our book buffet during Read Across America week!!

Students and adults had a good time at the Mena Middle School Library Cookies and Canvas event on Monday.

Celebrating BIG Reading Milestones! ✨📚
We are so proud of our Preschool readers who have reached amazing goals — 100, 500, and even 1,000 books before Kindergarten! 🎉 What an incredible accomplishment!

Mena High School Theatre II students performed "The Eight Best/Worst Things about High School" for 6th grade literacy classes on Friday.

Congratulations to Holly Harshman Elementary 4th Grader Raelynn Surber on being named the "Youth Citizen of the Year" at the recent Mena/Polk County Chamber of Commerce Banquet! Raelynn sets a great example for all students in the Mena Public Schools and we are very proud of her.

Post Season Honors have been released for the Mena Ladycat Basketball Team.

All State
Chloe Hooper

All Conference
Chloe Hooper
Makenley Sullivan
Mollee Sharp

Post Season Honors have been released for the Mena Bearcat Basketball Team.

All State Honorable Mention



JoJo Hernandez







All Conference



Daeton Miller



JoJo Hernandez 



Brody McCauley







All Conference Honorable Mention



Madox Plunkett 



Jackson Thompson



Owen Simpson

Kaydence made it to the 200 point Accelerated Reading 📖 tier!! She got to choose 2 new book choices for her efforts! Keep up the great work!

The Mena 7th grade and Jr. High Track Teams have competed at the Booneville Relays on Monday & Tuesday. Skylar Bahr was High Point for the Jr. High Meet.
7th Grade Girls
800 Meter Run-Avori Gortemiller 1st
7th Grade Boys
800 Meter Run-Dawson Manley 1st
4x800 Meter Relay- 1st
See complete 7th grade results at the link below:
https://ar.milesplit.com/.../723650-booneville.../results
Jr. High Girls
100 Meter Dash - Skylar Bahr 1st
400 Meter Dash-Skylar Bahr 1st
Triple Jump- Skylar Bahr 1st
Pole Vault - Skylar Bahr 1st
1600 Meter Run - Avori Gortemiller 1st
Jr. High Boys
400 Meter Dash - Bentley Brewer 1st
800 Meter Run - Dawson Manley 1st
See complete Jr. High Results at the link below:
https://ar.milesplit.com/.../723649-booneville.../results

Mena Soccer hosted Centerpoint at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium on Tuesday.

Ladycats-5 (1-2)
Centerpoint-0

Bearcats-2 (0-3)
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The teams are back in action on Friday when they play Cossatot at BCBS.

Our CTE students just wrapped up an incredible three-day experience with Get Real, Here’s the Deal, provided by the Polk County Extension Office!

On Friday, students were given a real-life financial scenario that included an occupation, salary, and a family to support. Using that information, they calculated their net income and began planning their budgets.

On Monday, students participated in the simulation by visiting 12 different stations where they made financial decisions and tracked their spending on a registration sheet. From housing and transportation to groceries and childcare, they experienced what it’s like to manage real-world expenses.

Today, students wrapped up the event by learning about the importance of credit scores and how interest impacts financial decisions.

This hands-on experience helped our students build valuable real-world financial skills that they will carry with them into adulthood.

A big thank you to the Polk County Extension Office and all of the community members who volunteered their time to make this event possible. Your support helps prepare our students for the future!

Mena High School Senior Tripp Hensley and Coach Chad Arnold will be participating in the Red River FCA Senior Showdown. All Showdown events will be May 27th-29th, 2026.
https://www.facebook.com/RedRiverFCA

Mena Middle School 8th graders explored college and career options at U of A Rich Mountain on Monday. Thank you to the college staff for the information, snacks and tour.

Holly Harshman 4th grade teams won 1st and 2nd place at the Battle of the Books on Friday!

Mena Third Grade "Team A" won first place at this year's Battle of the Book competition at DMESC!

Students in Mrs. Wilson’s Introduction to Education and Education Technology Classes have been presenting “HIP” lessons to Coach Morris’ and Coach Gardner’s health classes at Mena High School. HIP, also known as the Health Information Project, is a peer-to-peer comprehensive health education program that aims to create a safe space for discussion of critical health topics, helps to build a sense of community, and helps 9th graders more easily acclimate to high school.Through peer-to-peer classroom sessions, HIP’s mission is to empower teens to have the information necessary to live healthy lives, while also fostering a safe, supportive, and inclusive school campus. HIP addresses critical health topics such as suicide, eathing disorders, obesity, depression, diabetes, bullying and abuse. The students who have presented the lessons have improved their communication and speaking skills and have learned invaluable skills about classroom management.

We had huge group of winners for our Read Across America Read-A-Thon at HHE!

4th grade Science did a light reflection investigation today!