Benton Community School District

Graduation day is fast approaching. Make sure you are investigating scholarship opportunities to help with college costs. To aid in your search, we have created a site highlight...

VAN HORNE, IA — The Benton Community School District School Board would like to provide an update on the superintendent hiring process. The board recently met with staff at Grundm...

Please take a look at our January Newsletter for the latest information.#BeABobcat #APlaceToBelong

Did you know there is more than one language of love? It is said, all humans express and experience love in the same 5 ways. Physical touch, gifts, words of affirmation, acts of...

Do you want to be a paleontologist? Third grade students at Atkins Elementary worked as paleontologists to study bones of animals native to Iowa with the Benton County Naturalist...

Fitness classes are finishing up with max-outs and Physical Education classes just finished Badminton and floor tennis unit. We started a new unit this year at Thanksgiving time. ...

As you may be aware, the school district and board have been working on a plan to improve, expand, renovate, and modernize our school facilities. The school board and administra...

Growing up, I was blessed with some of the best grandparents in the world. One of my fondest memories is baking and decorating Christmas cookies with them each year. Year after ye...

As a result of the generous donation from the class of 1964, the Benton Music Department purchased a set of classroom keyboards. This year, I used them with 7th grade students in ...

My Foundations of Science II class has tackled basic chemistry concepts for a good deal of the second quarter. We began with the structure of the atom and worked our way through P...

Setting my students up for success right away in the morning is a priority in our second-grade classroom. Beginning the day on a positive note can impact student learning and rela...

In World History we are currently covering World War II. To properly cover this war, we also cover the buildup from the end of World War I through the Treaty of Versailles, League...

Every year the students in my class are invited to introduce their classmates and me to the Veterans in their lives or Veterans they are or were related to who may have passed. It...

Graduation day is fast approaching. Make sure you are investigating scholarship opportunities to help with college costs. To aid in your search, we have created a site highlight...

In education, it is extremely important that educators provide students with opportunities to connect with content. In Human Biology, students have had multiple opportunities to d...

Benton Community School District hosted the first public information session on Monday, evening sharing details on the proposed March 7, 2023 General Obligation Bond. More than 12...

Resource students in grades 4-6 are currently working on the comprehension skills of retell and summarizing. These two skills promote in-depth understanding of what is being read ...

8th Graders: We will be going on a field trip on Friday, December 16 to the Linn Regional Center for their STEAM event. You will need to bring a sack lunch or fill out this form ...

We have put together a F.A.Q.'s (Frequently Asked Questions) document regarding school closures, 2 hours delays, and early dismissals. Keep this handy to answer questions you ...

Thank you to the Seniors that attended the Benton Scholarship Foundation (BSF) presentation today and to Cristy Hurley for presenting. This scholarship opens December 19th, but ...