February 15, 2019
Pictured above: Oakville High senior Morgan Allen, right, with Oakville Principal Jan Kellerman. Three longtime principals in the Mehlville School District are set to retire at the end of this school year: Oakville High Principal Jan Kellerman, Mehlville High School Principal Denise Swanger and Bernard Middle Principal Lori Sullivan. Swanger told students in September that she
[ Read More ]Jason Landherr will be the new principal of Mehlville High School beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, succeeding longtime Principal Denise Swanger. The Mehlville Board of Education unanimously voted Feb. 7 to hire Landherr, who has served as an assistant principal at the school since 2012. Several highly qualified candidates applied for the position, and
[ Read More ]Pictured above: To celebrate the 100th day of school last week, Wohlwend Elementary students dressed like 100-year-olds. To celebrate the 100th day of school last week, Wohlwend Elementary students dressed like 100-year-olds. Across Oakville at Blades Elementary, classes celebrated the milestone by reading 100 books, searching for 100 things or doing 100 exercises, and Principal
[ Read More ]By Erin Achenbach Staff Reporter eachenbach@callnewspapers.com The Mehlville School District will be running a universal free breakfast pilot program at Forder Elementary School starting this week and continuing through March 15, with the unanimous approval of the Board of Education. A universal free breakfast program is a complete breakfast available at no cost to all
[ Read More ]Letter to the Editor To the editor: I have the privilege of helping to ensure Mehlville School District students graduate from our schools as college-, career- and life-ready individuals. Our students greatly benefit from opportunities to meet and learn from practicing professionals in the fields they are interested in pursuing. To that end, we are
[ Read More ]Pictured above: Mehlville’s John Cary Early Childhood students Emma Kitchell and Yaneli Juarez-Carrillo check out their playground the first week at school in August 2018. By Erin Achenbach Staff Reporter eachenbach@callnewspapers.com Legislation that would add money to Missouri’s foundation formula for public schools is being considered by the Legislature, but even with extra money spent
[ Read More ]Pictured above: Mehlville boys basketball. By Stephen Glover For the Call A lot of times a team’s success is not only measured by the number of wins it achieves, but by the number of “ugly” wins they walk away with. Last Friday evening proved to be an “ugly” win for the Mehlville Panthers as they
[ Read More ]It was a packed house at Blades Elementary last week for the fifth graders’ ‘Rolls with Role Models’ event. During this special breakfast, students read their guests an essay they wrote about them, and everyone enjoys cinnamon rolls and crossword puzzles together before the role models take a quiz asking if they’re smarter than a
[ Read More ]Heather Mastis’ class at Oakville Elementary embraced #ThatFridayFeeling last week with the ‘Tooty Ta,’ above. This goofy song and dance helps children (and grown-up children like School Resource Officer Mike Schira, rear) burn off some energy on cold winter days while reinforcing literacy concepts.
[ Read More ]The Mehlville School District says students are safe in school today after two separate threats at Oakville schools were found to be unsubstantiated. The threats involved both Oakville High School and Oakville Middle School, but were unrelated to each other. Since the two principals sent out emails about the incidents the same day — including many
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