Mena High School students participated in a Reverse Career Fair at UA Rich Mountain on Wednesday. The career fair flips the traditional format with students staffing the tables and showcasing their skills, interests, and career goals while employers rotated and engaged in meaningful conversations with students.
The Mena Ladycat and Bearcat Jr. High Track teams competed at the Cub Relays in Dequeen on Tuesday.
Bentley Brewer lead the boys by finishing:
2nd-400 Meter Dash
2nd- Long Jump
5th-300 Meter Hurdles
6th-Triple Jump
Skylar Bahr won the High Point Award and lead the girls by finishing:
1st-Pole Vault
1st-400 Meter Dash
2nd-Triple Jump
3rd- 200 Meter Dash
4th-Long Jump
5th-100 Meter Dash
Avori Gortemiller finished 4th in the 1600 Meter Run and the 800 Meter Relay team was 3rd.
Photos by Nikki Ferguson
Congratulations to our First Grade Battle of the Books teams for a job well done at the 2026 competition hosted by the DeQueen-Mena Educational Cooperative! 🎉🏆
Our students earned 2nd and 3rd place — an amazing accomplishment! 🎉📚
Not only did they compete with excellence, but they also represented Mena Public Schools with pride, teamwork, and outstanding character.
Our students earned 2nd and 3rd place — an amazing accomplishment! 🎉📚
Not only did they compete with excellence, but they also represented Mena Public Schools with pride, teamwork, and outstanding character.
Mena soccer played their season opener on Tuesday at Bob Carver Bearcat Stadium.
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Mena is back in action this Friday when they host Alma at BCBS.
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Mena is back in action this Friday when they host Alma at BCBS.
Jr. High Softball!
Reading is a SLAM DUNK! Mrs. Floyd's class enjoyed having stories read to them by Bearcat basketball players on Tuesday.
Mena High School FCCLA partnered with Keep Arkansas Beautiful to hold a community clean up event on Monday, March 2nd. Students spent 3 hours on their day off school cleaning local roads around campus and town. Thank you to Wal-Mart for donating water and snacks for this event!
Mena Bearcat Baseball will be playing in the Ralph Gross Memorial Tournament in Nashville this Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Congratulations to all the LD students who earned our PAWSitive awards this month!
Sophia got to choose 2 new books 📚 when she reached the 200 point Accelerated Reading tier!! Keep up the great work!🎉🎉
Ms. Kropp's Theatre Arts I students performed "Briar Rose" for 8th grade Literacy classes on Thursday. Public performances will be on Saturday and Sunday at the Ouachita Little Theatre...
Mena Middle School Project Prevent Team celebrated Threw with Chew Week on Friday with the annual Pickle you Choices Wisely event. Team members traded a pickle for a pledge to be Chew/Spit tobacco/nicotine free. Members collected 218 pledges.
Mena High School hosted the Basketball Skills Competition for Special Olympics on Monday in the Union Bank Center. Athletes from LD, HHE, MMS, MHS, and PCDC competed.
Mr. McCormick’s Animal Science and Animal Science 2 classes have been busy learning about sheep and goat production by bottle feeding, vaccinating, docking tails on the lambs, and banding the males of the orphan lambs and (goat) kids.
This week Mrs. Sawyer's class was on a secret mission to spread kindness all around our school!
The Mena team won 1st place on Friday in the Sr. High Quiz Bowl at the Dequeen Mena Education Service Cooperative.
Join us in giving a HUGE round of applause to our amazing Preschool readers who have reached incredible goals — 500 Books Before Kindergarten and 100 Books Before Kindergarten! 🎉🎉
We are beyond proud of each of you! We continue to fill our weeks with great stories, new authors, exciting adventures, and so much growth. With every book opened, you are building a strong foundation to become lifelong readers.
“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
❤️ — Emilie Buchwald
Our 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program is completely FREE and designed to encourage families to read together every single day. Reading at home is not only a special bonding time — it builds vocabulary, strengthens comprehension, develops memory, sparks imagination, and lays the groundwork for future academic success.
🎉 A special congratulations to our students who have reached the 500 Book milestone! What an incredible accomplishment! Keep turning those pages! 📖✨
Charlotte Hall
Ray Riley
🎉 And a big celebration for our students who have reached the 100 Book milestone! Every page you turn helps you grow stronger, smarter, and more confident as a reader. We are so proud of your hard work — keep reading and keep shining! 📚✨
Zackori Hamilton
Luca Mendez
Harmmoni Foret
We are beyond proud of each of you! We continue to fill our weeks with great stories, new authors, exciting adventures, and so much growth. With every book opened, you are building a strong foundation to become lifelong readers.
“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
❤️ — Emilie Buchwald
Our 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program is completely FREE and designed to encourage families to read together every single day. Reading at home is not only a special bonding time — it builds vocabulary, strengthens comprehension, develops memory, sparks imagination, and lays the groundwork for future academic success.
🎉 A special congratulations to our students who have reached the 500 Book milestone! What an incredible accomplishment! Keep turning those pages! 📖✨
Charlotte Hall
Ray Riley
🎉 And a big celebration for our students who have reached the 100 Book milestone! Every page you turn helps you grow stronger, smarter, and more confident as a reader. We are so proud of your hard work — keep reading and keep shining! 📚✨
Zackori Hamilton
Luca Mendez
Harmmoni Foret
So much fun was had by MMS students and parents at BATTLE @ THE HAC!
Mena Coach Zen Valencia was the guest speaker today at the Polk County Rotary Club. He spoke about how much the program has grown over the past four years as well as their postseason performance. He educated the audience on the sport of wrestling; acquired skills, nutrition, training, and confidence that is gained through the sport of wrestling. Additionally, he spoke about the new youth wrestling program in our community.
Mena High School students earning community service hours for highway trash pick-up!
