Clinton School District -

The Clinton School District is pleased to announce the district will participate in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) during the 2025-2026 school year providing meals, regardless of eligibility, at NO CHARGE for all students at the Clinton School District participating in the School Breakfast Program or National School Lunch Program. This is made possible through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Special Assistance Certification and Reimbursement Community Eligibility Provision. All adults, e.g., visitors, teachers, support staff members, and administrators of the district must assume the full cost of the meal which is $3 for Breakfast and
$4.75 for Lunch.

USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender.

We are excited to welcome everyone back in a couple of weeks at our Open House!
This is a great opportunity to meet your teachers and get an idea of where your classes are before the first day of school.
6th Grade and New 7th/8th Student Parent Meeting 5:00 in the Cafeteria.
Returning Parent Meeting 6:00 in the Cafeteria.
6th Grade Schedules Picked Up at the Parent Meeting.
7th/8th Schedules Picked Up in Mentor Classrooms.
We look forward to seeing everyone!

Open House on Thursday, August 7th from 5:00-7:00 pm.

We are scheduling times for everyone to meet their teacher at once and hear all the details of the year. We have the following times scheduled for you to come:

5:00-5th grade 5:20-4th grade 5:40-3rd grade 6:00-Kindergarten 6:20-1st grade 6:40-2nd grade

If you can make our scheduled time, that would be great. If not, feel free to drop in anytime from 5:00-7:00.

We are excited to announce that the Clinton School District will be providing school supplies for all students for the 2025-2026 school year.

Upcoming dates of interest: July 28-31 -- Preschool office will be open from 8:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. Thursday, July 31--PK Open House from 5:00p.m. until 7:00 p.m.--PK teachers will be contacting parents by phone earlier in the week to give a personal invitation to their students and parents! Wednesday, August 6--First day of school for PK students! Drop off time is 7:30 a.m. until 8:00a.m. with students going in for breakfast as soon as they are dropped off! Classes start at 8:00 a.m. If you are interested in picking up an application before July 28 you can stop by the Clinton Elementary Office. Summer office hours are from 8:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. Monday -Thursday.

Just a reminder due to the new Arkansas Act "Bell to Bell No Cell", no cell phones or electronic devices will be allowed during school hours.

We are looking forward to seeing everyone back on campus very soon. Open House for the Clinton School District will be held on Thursday, August 7th from 5-7pm. Specific campus meetings and times will be announced at a later date! Enjoy the rest of your summer break!

Happy 1st Birthday to our little Mookie! 🐾 Although Mookie has been enjoying his lazy summer at home, he is still working hard to become a certified Therapy Dog for Clinton Schools. He currently is enrolled in his second round of training and will hopefully pass his CGC Canine Good Citizen test soon. We look forward to meeting new students in August!

Jo Duncan was just named Arkansas Alternative Education Association Support Staff Member of the Year for the State of Arkansas at the annual conference in Fort Smith. Ms. Duncan is an integral part of our Alternative Education program, routinely going above and beyond in the classroom! We are proud to have her at CJHS!

Please help us welcome Ashley Flickinger to our Clinton School District Family. We are excited to have Mrs. Flickinger join us in our Agriculture Department.

Looking on the bright side this summer!!! Yellowjacket Arena is looking much brighter these days as we are replacing the lighting fixtures. The arena will not only be brighter but the light fixtures will be more energy efficient! This upgrade was made possible by a Department of Energy grant. Huge thank you to everyone for their hard work in making this upgrade possible.

Attention New Yellowjackets! If you are new to the Clinton School District for the 2025-2026 School Year please stop by the campus office your student will be attending to enroll. Office hours are Monday-Thursday 8am-3pm. We are excited to welcome you to the Clinton School District!

Save the date for the Yellowjacket Football Camp, July 24th. Work on improving football skills through drills and lessons from the Yellowjacket coaching staff and players.

As we get closer to the start of the 2025-2026 school year stay tuned for updates and news! The "Bell to Bell, No Cell Act" bans smartphone and other personal electronic device use in public schools, beginning in the 2025-2026 school year.

Back to School Vaccine Clinic Announced (Little Rock, Ark.) – On Monday, Tuesday and Friday, July 21,22 and 25, the Van Buren County Health Unit of the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) will offer back to school vaccinations at no charge at 526 Quality Drive from 7:30 to 5:00. People should bring their insurance cards with them to the vaccine clinic. If they do not have insurance, or the insurance does not cover shots, vaccine will still be available at no charge. For an appointment, please call 5017452485. Walk-Ins are welcome! “We want Van Buren County students to stay healthy during the school year, and getting vaccinations is the best line of defense,” Brandi Grillot, Van Buren County Health Unit Administrator, said. “We encourage parents to bring their children to the community clinic at the local health unit to get their immunizations.” Vaccines are the safest way to protect children from serious and potentially life-threatening illnesses. They protect both the person getting the shot and the entire community. ADH is dedicated to controlling and preventing the spread of infectious diseases by providing these vaccines through its local county health units. “This is a great opportunity for parents to get their kids caught up on any routine vaccines that they may be lacking prior to the school year. For many, the diseases that routine childhood vaccines protect against may not be top-of-mind, but those diseases can cause devastating illness, and they do still occur,” said ADH Director, Dr. Jennifer Dillaha. Recommended vaccines provided at local county health units include: Tdap, HPV, Hepatitis A and B, MMR, Meningococcal, Polio, Varicella, and pneumococcal conjugate. You can find more information about each of these vaccines and a list of required immunizations for daycare, school, and college at: Immunizations Arkansas Department of Health.

Our Tuesday distribution day is in the books! About 40% of the boxes packed for today's distribution were UNCLAIMED. Those will be used for Thursday's distribution. The school district is currently checking names to determine who has requested boxes for the past two weeks and left those unclaimed. We will remove those registrations from our distribution list for the upcoming week. If you have not been able to claim your boxes this week or last week and wish to remain on the distribution list for next week, please contact Priscilla Cohan, Child Nutrition Director, at cohanp@clintonsd.org.

Staging food for packing of almost 500 summer food boxes is quite a task! Our employees and volunteers make it happen. Many of our volunteers are from Clinton 1st United Methodist Church. We are grateful for their contributions to this effort!

Great day at the Lyon College Rope Challege Course! Lots of lessons that we can take with us to apply in life and basketball! We ended the day with some Freddy’s Ice Cream! Go Jackets!! #DontBlink #Grit

Pick-up locations and times for food boxes are as follows: Agape Community Resource Center (Tuesday ONLY, 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. OR 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.) Alread School Cafeteria (Tuesday ONLY, 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.) Mom's Country Kitchen (Thursday ONLY, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.) Dennard Propane Yard (Tuesday ONLY, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.) Scotland School (Thursday ONLY, 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.)