
We have an amazing new awning that extends from our LD building to the gym! 🎉🎉


We love restocking our Free Little Library to prepare for a weekend full of reading!!
Check out our Free Little Library in front of Louise Durham! It is set up so families can have access to Free Books after school or on the weekends!
There are more than 100,000 registered Free Little Library Book sharing boxes in 108 countries worldwide📚
Remember Take a book, leave a book, love a book!


Congratulations to everyone who participated in the Polk County Spelling Bee! We are so proud of you all! 1st Place for First Grade : Adley Arce 3rd Place for Second Grade: Carson Gortemiller


Congratulations to everyone who participated in the Polk County Spelling Bee! We are so proud of you all!
1st Place for First Grade : Adley Arce
3rd Place for Second Grade: Carson Gortemiller


Tune in Bearcat News on FM101 Monday, February 5th for the weekly report from Louise Durham Elementary featuring AUBREY & ELLIE . They are second grade student in Mrs. Warren's class.
Bearcat News can be heard every school day on Mena Public Schools Radio FM101. Tune in at
5:30am
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LDE students celebrated one hundred days of school o n Thursday!


Kindergarten rocked out for our hundredth day of school! 🤟🏽


Louise Durham Elementary is collecting pop tops for the Ronald McDonald House. EMERY was so proud of all the tops she collected.


The Great Kindness Challenge Week will be January 22nd through the 26th!
https://www.facebook.com/thegreatkindnesschallenge/


Tune in Bearcat News on FM101 Monday, December 18th for the weekly report from Louise Durham Elementary featuring TRAYTON.
Trayton is a second grade student in Mrs. Beck's class.
Bearcat News can be heard every school day on Mena Public Schools Radio FM101. Tune in at
5:30am
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Great job to these kindergarten students who leveled up in Lexia.


Members of the MHS National English Honor Society made a surprise visit with Santa Clause at Louise Durham Elementary on Wednesday to pass out Santa Letters to 2nd grade.


Preschool is snow much fun ❄️


Tune in Bearcat News on FM101 Monday, December 11th for the weekly report from Louise Durham Elementary featuring SOPHIA.
Sophia is a second grade student in Mrs. Warren's class.
Bearcat News can be heard every school day on Mena Public Schools Radio FM101. Tune in at
5:30am
6:00am
6:30am
7:00am
7:30am
8:00am
Noon
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Tune in Bearcat News on FM101 Monday, December 4th for the weekly report from Louise Durham Elementary featuring KYE.
Kye is a second grade student in Mrs. Trammell's class.
Bearcat News can be heard every school day on Mena Public Schools Radio FM101. Tune in at
5:30am
6:00am
6:30am
7:00am
7:30am
8:00am
Noon
12:30pm
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3:30pm


Kindergarten students continue to level up in Lexia!


Private School Partnership Meeting - November 16, 2023
There will be a meeting on November 16, 2023 for the Homeschool Officials within the Mena School District at 6:00 p.m. in the Mena High School Cafeteria, Mena, Arkansas. This meeting will be held to provide information about special education services to private schools and homeschool providers. Please contact Christy Thrailkill, Special Education/504 Supervisor for the Mena Public Schools, if you have any questions regarding this meeting.


To finish off Red Ribbon Week, Louise Durham had a Rise and Shine assembly today. The high school theater group came and performed a skit on safety, Red ribbon week prizes were given out, and a gift certificate to Sassy Squatch was given to our October attendance award winner.


The Mena Middle School Project Prevent Team presented Holly Harshman Elementary and Louise Durham Elementary with prizes for the annual Red Ribbon Week coloring contest. Thank you to Harbor House and the Sheriff’s Association Red Ribbon Week Grant for sponsoring the prizes.


Kindergarten students who leveled in Lexia Core 5
