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Wisconsin Open Enrollment for 2012-2013 School year Feb. 6 to Feb. 24

Do you live or will you be moving outside the boundaries of the School District of Marshfield and are you interested in having your children attend or continue Marshfield Schools? The Open Enrollment window for the 2012-2013 school year is February 6-24, 2012. Open Enrollment applications should be submitted online at http://dpi.wi.gov/sms/psctoc.html. If you do not have access to a computer in your home, computers are available in school libraries and at Central Office. The website answers many questions. The submission dates are February 6-24. Early or late applications cannot be accepted for any reason. Please contact Anne or Tacey at (387-1101, Ext. 1101) with any questions. Feel free to share this information with family and friends in our area.

Kindergarten and 4K Registration

Marshfield Schools 4K Registration

February 13—6:00-7:30pm at Madison Elementary School  more info here

Marshfield Schools Kindergarten Registration

February 16—7:00 at Washington Elementary School  more info here

School closings and news alerts

The Marshfield School District subscribes to the Alert Now message system—a program that informs parents and students of upcoming events, special messages from classroom teachers and school administrators, and possible school closings due to inclement weather. The program is also in place to alert parents should a school emergency take place.

If bad weather does necessitate school closings, an alert now event will be sent out to parents via phone messages based on phone numbers supplied by parents during school registration. If you wish to have your phone number added, changed, or have it taken off the Alert Now data base, please contact the office at your child’s school.

School closings will also be broadcast on Wausau TV stations Channels 9 and 7,  Wood County’s NIXEL alert program and local radio stations AM1450 WDLB and 92.3FM WOSQ.

Geegan new Superintendent of Schools

The Marshfield School Board has selected Peg Geegan as the new School District of Marshfield Superintendent of Schools replacing Bruce King who has retired.  Superintendent's Welcome

Geegan served as the district Director of Instruction for the past five years. She started her teaching career in special education in the 1980s in Palatine, Ill. Before moving to Marshfield, she served as an elementary and middle school principal in the Minocqua-Hazelhurst-Lake Tomahawk School District.

View an interview with Geegan on The School Focus show.

Marshfield High School receives top WI ranking

The Washington Post has ranked Marshfield High School as number one in Wisconsin in its National High School Challenge rankings. The Post ranks MHS as number 437 nationally among 1900 high schools rated.The list includes schools that the newspaper says do the best job in preparing graduating students for college in 2011.

Read more on the Washington Post High School Challenge.

Click here for the list of Wisconsin High School ranked in the Challenge.

Another National title for MHS!
Ag class wins Dairy Science top honor

Coming on the heels of a national championship for Marshfield High School's Ocean Science Bowl team, an MHS Dairy Science class added another title to an impressive list of honors won this year by MHS students and teachers.

Ag instructor Tim Heeg's dairy science class won the national dairy judging contest sponsored by Hoard's Dairyman magazine, the premier publication for the dairy industry. The contest judges the skills of the students in evaluating the structural correctness of dairy cows, and then placing the cows based on those characteristics. The students evaluated the cows, came up with their own individual placings, and then as a class evaluated pro's and con's of their placings and came up with a consensus placing as a group.
Read more here

National Three-peat for MHS Ocean Science Bowl Team

Marshfield High School's Ocean Science Bowl team wearing sargasso seaweed crowns while wading in the ocean at Galveston, TX after winning the National Ocean Science Bowl competition for the third straight year.  From left to right: Jack Gellerman, Christine Tyler, Rahul Pathak, Seth Berger, Michael Josephson and Coach Paul Herder.

Click here to read the email sent back Marshfield after the team's win on May 1

Click here to read the National Ocean Science Bowl website article on Marshfield's title

Click here to see a slide show of the trophy presentation

School Board meeting video online

Monthly Marshfield Board of Education meetings are now streamed online via the City's Granicus video program. It will take a little time for the video to load so please be patient.

December 2011 meeting part 1      December 2011 meeting part 2

October 2011 meeting

September 2011 meeting        August 2011 meeting

July 2011 meeting part 1     July meeting part 2

June 2011 meeting

Safe Routes to School Video
A video by Breanna Spaeth of MCTV of winners in the Safe Routes to School poster contest.
Click Here

Marshfield School Focus video program now online

School Focus is a Marshfield School District and Marshfield Community TV production that features programs based on the people and events of Marshfield's Public Schools.

The show is filmed at the Marshfield Community TV studios. Host for each program is Dean Markwardt; Dale Yakaites colaborates with Dean on show topics and guests, and is responsible for post production video completion. In-studio directors are Dan Kummer who is assisted by Jay Holbrooke. Students in the Youth Apprentice program are also involved in video production. View the programs via the City's Granicus video software. The programs do take some time to load.

2011-2012 School Focus Shows
December 2011  Dean Markwardt interviews MHS Marketing teacher and DECA advisor Don Patterson

October 2011   Dean Markwardt interviews Marshfield High School Principal Gordon Sisson.

2010-2011 Shows
Latest School Focus–May 2011
New Superintendent Peg Geegan and MHS art instructor Tim Begelin.
Watch the latest School Focus video which includes an interview with new Superintendent Peg Geegan and also MHS art instructor Tim Bergelin 

Earlier School Focus programs
Show 1: MHS Drama Director Jack Bittrich. To watch the show  click here
Show 2: Chuck Treankler's class helps Winter Wonderland and Greg Reierson's
Madrigal singers prepare for their annual dinner. click here
Show 3: Marshfield's 4K Program and MHS classes that offer credit transferable to
techincal colleges click here
Show 4: Marshfield Middle School Careet Quest program and MHS Health Careers Connections
click here