Families with students who currently take iPads home in grades K-11 may now opt to checkout their district issued iPads for the summer months! This is our seventh year offering optional summer iPad checkout and our third year offering it to students in grades K-2. Last year over 75% of eligible families and students opted to check out their issued iPads. Using RevTrak to agree to the updated 2022-23 iPad Loan Agreement will ensure that your child is set with their iPad check out for the entire 2022-23 academic year.

Thank you to all the families who expressed interest in a potential online learning option for the 2022-2023 school year for your learner. Our purpose in surveying families was to explore interest, program design, and potential staffing. Last evening, we shared the results of the survey at ISD 192’s school board meeting. Due to low interest in the program, we will be unable to offer an online option for the 2022-2023 school year for learners in Grades K-12.

At its work session on April 11th, the Farmington Area Public Schools Board of Education discussed options and the process for filling the open seat that will be vacated by Director Melissa Sauser on April 25, 2022. The vacancy will be filled through an application, interview and appointment process. Beginning April 14th through April 21st, 2022, the Board of Education is accepting applications from residents of Farmington Area Public Schools who are interested in serving on the Board of Education for the remaining term (through December 31, 2022) until a successor is elected at the November 2022 election.

Due to unexpected scheduling conflicts, the Farmington Area Public Schools, ISD 192 School Board Meeting scheduled for Monday, March 14, 2022 will begin at 5:30 p.m. with public comment at 5:20 p.m.

In accordance with federal requirements and the CDC’s most recent guidance, face coverings will no longer be required on ISD 192 transportation beginning Monday, February 28, 2022 (except for 5 days following isolation/quarantine). Please be aware that face coverings continue to be required in all ISD 192 health offices. For additional information about COVID-19 in ISD 192, please visit the COVID-19 FAQ.

Help shape our plans for next school year by completing the following brief survey (less than 5 minutes long) so we can gauge what interest exists in an online learning model for the 2022-2023 school year. The survey will be available February 15th through February 25, 2022.

Join us for a free college fair on February 24 from 4:30-6 p.m. in the FHS cafeteria. Meet with representatives from universities (public & private), and community/technical colleges. Create your unique barcode at www.strivefair.com and bring it along. College representatives will be able to scan your barcode – no cards to fill out at the tables! *Masks are required for the event*

National School Counseling Week highlights the tremendous impact school counselors can have in helping students achieve school success and plan for a career. Thank you to all our ISD 192 School Counselors for their dedication to our learners and the positive impact they have every day in our school community!

In accordance with the Minnesota Departments of Education and Health, Farmington Area Public Schools, ISD 192, is adopting new protocols to shorten isolation and quarantine periods. The shorter timelines for learners will go into effect Tuesday, January 25, 2022. Learners currently in isolation or quarantine may return to school five days sooner than their originally communicated return date, provided they meet all other criteria.

We have seen staffing shortages this winter in every part of our school operations, and in the last week it has been especially challenging to properly staff our school buildings. Additionally, since winter break we have seen a significant increase in learner absences. Due to these significant staff and student absences, Wednesday, January 12, 2022 will be a flexible learning day for grades 6-12; Thursday, January 13, 2022 and Friday, January 14, 2022 will be district-wide flexible learning days.

We are pleased to announce that Farmington Area Public School, ISD 192, and the Farmington Education Association, representing teachers in the school district, have reached an agreement for the 2021-2023 contract period. The parties had the opportunity to meet twelve times over the course of the last several months to collaborate and discuss a number of important topics impacting our educators.

Congratulations to Mark Froehling and Jen Hogan, the 2021 ISD 192 Teachers of the Year!

Winter weather is once again upon us. This is a reminder that emergency school closings may occur on short notice for a variety of reasons. Additionally, we are seeing a rise in COVID-19 cases in our community and experiencing staff shortages in every part of our school operations. We encourage you to have a plan for emergency school closings, flexible learning days, and temporary distance learning. Please also ensure your contact information (phone and email) is up-to-date with your school building.

Don't forget to join us - LIVE at 12:00 pm | TODAY, November 11, 2021 Farmington High School Band presents a special Veteran’s Day Performance this Thursday at Noon live on Facebook!

The Farmington community celebrates Patriotic Day each November in honor of our military veterans. This year, please enjoy a special video presentation of highlights from the past 20 years of Patriotic Day events.

The Farmington High School Marching Band traveled to US Bank Stadium on Saturday, October 9 for the Youth in Music Marching Band Championships and came home as the Class AA State Champions!

This is a reminder that daily school meals are available via pick-up for any student enrolled in District 192 who must miss in-person instruction due to COVID-19 quarantine. You must pre-register to pick-up daily meals for your quarantined student(s)

To help our learners have consistent learning experiences with as few disruptions as possible and due to an increasing number of cases in Dakota County and in zip code 55024, in addition to the limited access to vaccination for our elementary and middle school learners, beginning Monday, August 30 all learners, staff, and visitors will be required to wear a face covering inside school buildings with programming for ages 3-8th grade through at least October 1, 2021 at which time this requirement will be reevaluated. At this time, masking for learners and staff in grades 9-12 is still strongly recommended.

Across the country high school students compete in formal debate every year. The topics they debate are carefully chosen. First a coach must research, write, and present a paper on the topic to a panel of judges. From there the top five topic areas are discussed by students and coaches and a final topic is chosen by popular vote. This year forty-seven delegates from nineteen states attended the NFHS Policy Debate Topic Selection Meeting from August 6-8, 2021 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Ten topic reports were presented, one of which was written by Farmington High School’s Debate Coach Rachel Baumann, along with the Rosemount Debate Coach, Nathan Wodarz.

Nate Larson has been named the next head coach of the Farmington High School girls’ tennis team. Larson joins FHS with a wide variety of experience in tennis as a player and a coach. Larson was a 4x All-Conference and 3x All-Region collegiate tennis player at the University of Sioux Falls in South Dakota. He was also a 2x national tournament qualifier.

We are looking forward to the start of the 2021-22 school year! Time has gone by quickly as we are entering our tenth year of utilizing iPads in a 1:1 ratio to better personalize learning opportunities for students. Better than 75% of our learners opted to check out their iPads for the summer! Students that participated in this summer’s optional iPad checkout have already completed and agreed to the terms of the district 2021-22 iPad Loan Agreement using our RevTrak system. These students are set for the 2021-22 school year and may simply bring their issued iPad with them for the first day of school. The following is general iPad information for families with learners in grades K-12 new to taking an iPad home and/or parents of students checking out their same iPads again this fall. In the next few weeks additional school-specific information will come from building principals regarding iPad deployments for their learners. For most schools this will be after the official start of the new academic year.

Farmington Area Public Schools have a number of positions open for the 2021-2022 school year. If you want to make a positive difference in the lives of young learners, we encourage you to apply today.

As of July 7, 2021 there have been two important updates to the way ISD 192 learners and families access Infinite Campus - the portal through which ISD 192 learners and their families can monitor grades, standardized test scores, attendance, and more. Infinite Campus has updated both their Campus Parent and Campus Student mobile applications. Please be sure to update your app(s) as soon as possible in preparation for the new school year. If you access Infinite Campus via a web browser, please note that the web address (URL) Farmington Area learners and families use to login has also changed. Please update your bookmarks with the new web address (URL): https://farmingtonmn.infinitecampus.org/campus/portal/farmington.jsp

The Farmington Area Public Schools community is pleased to welcome Keith Badger as the new Activities and Athletics Director for ISD 192. His hiring was approved by the ISD 192 School Board on Monday, June 21.

This summer free meals will be available to all children under the age of 18, regardless of their school of enrollment, beginning Monday, June 7, 2021. Click "Read More" for instructions on how to get your free meals.

In honor of the Farmington High School 2021 graduating class, over the next several weeks we will be highlighting a few of our outstanding seniors. These students have been nominated by Farmington Area Public Schools staff members for exhibiting hard work and pursuing their spark with passion during their time at FHS. Today’s Senior Spotlight is: Jenna Hoyum!

In honor of the Farmington High School 2021 graduating class, over the next several weeks we will be highlighting a few of our outstanding seniors. These students have been nominated by Farmington Area Public Schools staff members for exhibiting hard work and pursuing their spark with passion during their time at FHS. Today’s Senior Spotlight is: Madalyn Mills!

In honor of the Farmington High School 2021 graduating class, over the next several weeks we will be highlighting a few of our outstanding seniors. These students have been nominated by Farmington Area Public Schools staff members for exhibiting hard work and pursuing their spark with passion during their time at FHS. Today’s Senior Spotlight is: McKenna Murphy!

In honor of the Farmington High School 2021 graduating class, over the next several weeks we will be highlighting a few of our outstanding seniors. These students have been nominated by Farmington Area Public Schools staff members for exhibiting hard work and pursuing their spark with passion during their time at FHS. Today’s Senior Spotlight is: Hailey Christianson!

In honor of the Farmington High School 2021 graduating class, over the next several weeks we will be highlighting a few of our outstanding seniors. These students have been nominated by Farmington Area Public Schools staff members for exhibiting hard work and pursuing their spark with passion during their time at FHS. Today’s Senior Spotlight is: Devon McCarthy!

In honor of the Farmington High School 2021 graduating class, over the next several weeks we will be highlighting a few of our outstanding seniors. These students have been nominated by Farmington Area Public Schools staff members for exhibiting hard work and pursuing their spark with passion during their time at FHS. Today’s Senior Spotlight is: Mara Lillis!

Farmington Area Public Schools, ISD 192, has been awarded the Certificate of Excellence in Financial Reporting (COE) by The Association of School Business Officials International (ASBO) for the fourteenth consecutive year.

Farmington Area Public Schools, ISD 192, is launching a new program aimed at getting instruments in the hands of more students. Dubbed “Replay,” the program will provide used instruments to students, especially those whose families may not be able to afford the purchase or rental of an instrument from a music store.

Congratulations to the 2021 SEAC Super Advocate award recipients! This award honors adults, students and community members who have gone the extra mile to demonstrate kindness, courage, provided inclusion or a unique experience or service to our learners with disabilities. This award is sponsored by the Special Education Advisory Committee (SEAC).

In honor of the Farmington High School 2021 graduating class, over the next several weeks we will be highlighting a few of our outstanding seniors. These students have been nominated by Farmington Area Public Schools staff members for exhibiting hard work and pursuing their spark with passion during their time at FHS. Today’s Senior Spotlight is: Waadaa Daka!

This evening Governor Walz announced an end to the statewide mask requirement, in light of recent guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), stating that fully vaccinated individuals no longer need to wear a mask. Minnesotans who are not fully vaccinated are strongly recommended to wear face coverings indoors and schools are still required to follow the Minnesota Safe Learning Plan for the remainder of the school year. One requirement of the MN Safe Learning Plan is that “all students, staff, and other people present in school buildings and district offices or riding on school transportation vehicles are required to wear a face covering.” So, ISD 192 will continue with its current practice around face coverings through June 4, 2021. Thank you for your continued understanding and cooperation.

In honor of the Farmington High School 2021 graduating class, over the next several weeks we will be highlighting a few of our outstanding seniors. These students have been nominated by Farmington Area Public Schools staff members for exhibiting hard work and pursuing their spark with passion during their time at FHS. Today’s Senior Spotlight is: Sarah Nordling!

Josh Budde and Belicia Pierre, both seniors at Farmington High School, recently took home awards from the 2021 South Suburban Conference Art Exhibition...

This week the ‘Roll Up Your Sleeves, MN’ vaccine outreach campaign is focusing on Minnesotans aged 16 and 17 - which includes some of our ISD 192 students. This means that between April 27th and May 1st, 16 and 17 year olds, and their parents, will be prioritized for vaccines at Minnesota’s Mall of America Community Vaccination site. Click here to register for your appointment at Mall of America:

In honor of the Farmington High School 2021 graduating class, over the next several weeks we will be highlighting a few of our outstanding seniors. These students have been nominated by Farmington Area Public Schools staff members for exhibiting hard work and pursuing their spark with passion during their time at FHS. Today’s Senior Spotlight is: Jonathan Cubero Melero!

Hana and Maia Childress, both seventh graders at Dodge Middle School, recently participated in NASA’s Artemis Moon Pod Essay Contest. The Artemis Program, in which the first woman and next man will land on the Moon by 2024, captured the attention of 14,000 K-12 students across the country who submitted essays...

Congratulations to all the learners who have earned a place on the Farmington High School Trimester 2 Honor Roll!

Emily Berghuis is one of 32 finalists for the Academics, Arts, and Athletics Award, commonly known as the Triple 'A' Award. This award honors high school seniors throughout the state who have a 3.0 or higher-grade point average and who participate in Minnesota High School League-sponsored athletic and fine arts activities. Emily is involved in Tigers Softball, Band, and Choir. She is also a member of the Math Team and the National Honors Society. Additionally, Emily has participated in multiple theater productions as a Farmington High School student.

Brianna Ostoff, Director of Community Education in Farmington, has been chosen as the State Community Educator of Excellence by the Minnesota Community Education Association (MCEA). She received her award at the MCEA Virtual Winter Conference which took place via Zoom on Feb. 17 & 18, 2021.

Sophie Hart, a senior at Farmington High School, has been named a 2021 Athena Award Winner. The St. Paul Area Athena Award program honors outstanding female high school senior student-athletes from St. Paul and suburban public and independent high schools for their athletic achievements. The award is based on excellence in individual sports or for participation and accomplishments in team sports.

You're invited to the 2021 Virtual College Exploration event! This event will be held March 9th-11th, 2021 and will feature live presentations about college admissions. You can register at https://www.mn-acac.org/virtualcollege

Austin Skoda, a senior at Farmington High School, has been named a Finalist in the National Merit Scholarship Program. This is an academic competition for recognition and scholarships. The program began in 1955 and has become a highly competitive program in which being named a Finalist is a great honor and a reflection of superior academic work. Each year approximately 1.5 million students enter the program and of that only about 15,000 become Finalists.

The State of Minnesota has announced the launch of the Minnesota COVID-19 Vaccine Connector, which is a tool that helps Minnesotans find out when, where and how to get their COVID-19 vaccine. They have asked us to share to following information with our community. Please read below to learn more.

Farmington Area Public Schools has been awarded a grant from the Farmington Area Education Foundation (FAEF) for $8000 to help enhance outdoor learning spaces in the district by expanding the Wi-Fi signal. ...

The Farmington High School Wind Ensemble, a band under the direction of Erin Holmes, was recently selected to perform at the prestigious Minnesota Music Educators Association (MMEA) Midwinter Clinic. This is the highest honor a school music group in Minnesota can receive and the first time in the history of Farmington schools that a concert band has been selected to perform at MMEA.To view the Wind Ensemble’s performance, you can watch the 30-minute program anytime after 7pm on Thursday, February 11 on the FHS Band YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/FarmingtonBand.

Congratulations are in order to the Farmington Debate team on an outstanding State Tournament!

Farmington Area Public Schools, Independent School District #192, has once again been awarded the Certificate of Excellence in Financial Reporting (COE) by The Association of School Business Officials International (ASBO). This certificate recognizes districts that have met the program’s high standards for financial reporting and accountability. The school district earned the Certificate of Excellence for its Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) for the fiscal year ended 2018.

The mission of Farmington Area Public Schools, District 192, is to ensure each learner continuously achieves one’s highest aspirations. To that end, we are continuously evaluating current practices and making improvements for the benefit of our learners. Over the past year, we have carefully considered current school hours and whether or not they are arranged in the best possible way to facilitate student learning at every level. After studying research from the American Academy of Pediatrics and other health organizations we have come to understand that a change to school start times would greatly benefit our learners by engaging them when they are most ready to learn.

As winter weather is once again upon us, we’d like to briefly review some key points regarding weather-related school closings and flexible learning days.

We are excited to inform you Infinite Campus has two new and improved mobile apps: Campus Student (for students) and Campus Parent (for parents). Download your free app for real-time access to grades, attendance, schedules, announcements and more!