Bearcat Junior High Football Community Service Day. The team folded boxes and sent them to PCDC for recycling
2023 Mena High School graduate receives Shelter Insurance scholarship.
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Today members of the Mena Bearcat Basketball team came to Homelife Academy for sports week!
These guys had a busy morning playing games, having fun, and throwing water balloons with our summer camp!
It’s a great Day to be a Bearcat, a future Bearcat, and a HomeLife camper
The project to convert floors from tile to stained and polished concrete continues across the district this summer. Crews are working at Mena High School this week.
The Mena Public Schools would like to welcome new staff for 2023/2024. Including CODY KOCH at Mena High School. The first day of the new school year is Wednesday, August 16th.
Workers with Gym Masters Basketball Courts are resurfacing the floor in Jim Rackley Gymnasium at Mena Middle School this week.
The Mena Public Schools would like to welcome new staff for 2023/2024. Including AMANDA MERSHON BECK at Louise Durham Elementary. The first day of the new school year is Wednesday, August 16th.
The Mena 7th grade cheer squad attended the Varsity Stunt Clinic in Hot Springs on Monday!
The Mena Public Schools would like to welcome new staff for 2023/2024. Including OLIVIA WARD at Holy Harshman Elementary. The first day of the new school year is Wednesday, August 16th.
Mena Jr High and Sr High Ladycats competed at the first day of the Harding Team Camp on Sunday.
The last few days have been eventful! We traveled from Amsterdam to Belgium, and started off our day with a chocolate making workshop, and then ended the day with a tour of the highlights of the city. The next day we bus transferred again and made it to Paris! We went out for a quick sightseeing trip and then settled into our hotel. The next day we had a guided tour of the city, free time in the afternoon, and a river cruise in the evening before dinner! 
Tomorrow is our last day in Paris, and we visit the Louvre and have a perfumery workshop tour. After that, we are off to London to finish out our trip!
The Mena Public Schools would like to welcome new staff for 2023/2024. Including JENNY ROBERTSON at Mena High School. The first day of the new school year is Wednesday, August 16th.
The project to convert floors from tile to stained and polished concrete continues across the district this summer. Crews are working at Louise Durham Elementary this week.
The Senior High Bearcats attended Team Camp at OBU today! They are pictured here listening to the speaker during lunch. OBU always puts on a great camp!
We had a good day , great competition and days like today help us work toward achieving our goals!
Go Bearcats!
The Mena Public Schools would like to welcome new staff for 2023/2024. Including EMILY JACOBS at Mena Middle School. The first day of the new school year is Wednesday, August 16th.
The Jr. High Cheer Team attended the NCA Camp at UALR recently and came home with the following awards:
Stunt S.A.F.E. Award
Most Improved
National Championship Bid & NFHS Squad Credentialing
2nd in Junior High Band Chant Division
Herkie Spirit Award
Superior ratings in Band Chant and Game Day Cheer
3 Squad members nominated for All-American Cheer : Rayleigh Goodnight, Sophia Cummings, and Serenity Fraser
The girls learned and grew tremendously during our time at camp. We are so excited to see what they learned put to work this season!
The Mena Varsity Cheer team and the Junior High Team attended NCA Team Camp at UALR. At camp the team learned new content, stunt skills, and competed in a GameDay competition where they won 2nd place in the Band Chant in their division.
There were 11 out of 17 girls nominated for All-American.
They were:
Briley Dean
Hailey Emerson
Amy Gragg
Kiylee Hughes
Shantal Tecson
Sophia Vacca
Jolina Butterfield
Gia Fagan-Hobson
Destiny Hogan
Carmindy Ashcraft
Alaya Richard
Kiylee Hughes was selected to tryout for NCA Staff.
Asher Wooden AKA Beary also received a nomination for Mascot All-American and received the Top Mascot Award!
The Mena Public Schools would like to welcome new staff for 2023/2024. Including MACIE JOHNSON at Holly Harshman Elementary. The first day of the new school year is Wednesday, August 16th.
The Mena Jr. Bearcats got put thru their paces this morning at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium. The fall scrimmage will be August 15th at Mansfield and the season opener is August 31st against Centerpoint.
https://www.menaschools.org/o/athletics/athletics...
Ms. Alexander's summer students learned about the Chalk Art Festival in Denver, Colorado, and made their own creations.
