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Market on Main Sign Removal

Market on Main Remodel

March 22, 2021

Today, the remodel of the Market on Main building has begun. The goal of this expansion...

Aiddy Phomvisay

Aiddy Phomvisay has been hired to fill the role of Executive Director of Teaching and L...

Dave Harper

Harper Returns to Ottumwa

March 18, 2021

According to the district’s new Executive Director of Operations and Human Resour...

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Kindergarten registration for the Ottumwa district is open. Students must be five-years...

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Thanks to a federal feeding program, students will not be hungry over spring break. ...

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Due to weather delays, cancellations, and the early dismissal on December 22 for winter...

Students and community representatives holding a check

Today, representatives from Atlantic Bottling and Walmart met with Ottumwa athletes at ...

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Ottumwa students in grades 8-11 will register for courses during the month of March.&nb...

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OHS 10th and 11th grade parents are invited to a meeting on Thursday, March 11 at 5:45 ...

Rendering of Market on Main

Market on Main Update

March 9, 2021

During yesterday's school board meeting, a rendering of the new interior of Market ...

STUDENT INVENTING

Camp Invention is coming to the Ottumwa Community School District! In partnership with ...

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Today the Evans Music Department met with fifth grade students about the opportuni...

Richard Hutchinson

Ottumwa High School has begun the search for a new principal after the recent resignati...

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A special election on Tuesday approved the request for a voter-approved Physical Plant ...

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The Ottumwa Bulldogs Archery team is celebrating their unconventional and successful se...

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370 staff members in the Ottumwa district received their first Covid-19 vaccine in Febr...

4 OHS acting students

The Iowa High School Speech Association recently released its highest-ranked performers...

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March 2 Polling Locations

February 23, 2021

On Tuesday, Ottumwa residents will be asked to consider a voter-approved Physical Plant...

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On Tuesday, March 2, Ottumwa residents will asked to consider a voter-approved Physical...

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ACT Cancellation

February 19, 2021

The ACT orginally scheduled for February 20, 2021, has been canceled due to a shipping ...

Mike McGrory and Erika Mull

This week, five Ottumwa staff members were presented Employee of the Month awards....

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Ottumwa Schools continues to make decisions based on our concern for the health and saf...

Mary Beth Tinker

A 7th grade social studies class at Evans, taught by Cooper Smith, is currently working...

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OHS will once again administer the ACT test to all 11th grade students on Wednesday, Ma...

OHS students bake biscuits

A group of 13 district administrators, teachers, and community members presented inform...