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Our Mission
We will create, deliver and responsibly manage opportunities for all children to learn every day and become contributing citizens. These opportunities will be developed in partnership with the community and will be provided in a safe and supportive environment.
Our Motto
Every Student Learning Every Day
Our Values
Respect, Dignity, Honesty, Responsibility and Teamwork
Awards
Prairie Jr/Sr High a 5 Star School
Prairie Elementary a 4 Star School
Distinguished Elementary School
NATIONAL BLUE RIBBON SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE 2014
A school report card is available for the Elementary and Junior-Senior high school. Click on the links below.
Prairie Junior Senior High School
Superintendent’s Welcome to the 2026-2027 School Year
This is year #6 as the Cottonwood School District Superintendent. The first 5 years have gone by fast and I am looking forward to kicking off another school year.
We are 2 weeks away from students walking through the door on Wednesday, September 2nd. Both buildings will start seeing teachers in and out of the building in the next couple of weeks, but the first official contract day for staff is Wednesday, August 26th for district meetings.
Cottonwood School District’s enrollment as of Monday, August was 406 students. This number will change as there are some students who have not registered at the Jr/Sr high school. Last year at this time we had 418 students enrolled. We currently have 42 open enrolled students from other districts.
Our fall sport practices kicked off on Monday, August 10th for football, volleyball and cross country. First action for football is Friday, August 21st @ Troy. There are 20 boys out for football. Volleyball kicks off their season with a jamboree at PHS Tuesday, August 18th. The first game of the season is @ the Genesee JV tournament, Saturday, August 29th and league game @ Logos, Thursday, September 3rd. There are 24 girls out for volleyball. Cross Country doesn’t have their entire schedule set, but as of now their first XC meet is scheduled for Thursday, August 27th @ Troy Invitational. There are 13 cross country runners out.
Jr High football and volleyball will start a little later in August as their first games don’t start until the middle of September. Good luck to all our athletes this Fall! Student organizations BPA, HOSA, FFA, Prairie League, and Knowledge Bowl will begin their meetings when the school year starts.
Open House at the elementary school is planned for Monday, August 31st from 4:30-6:30. We will provide burgers, hot dogs and chips for students and parents as they drop off their supplies in their new classrooms and meet their teachers.
Prairie is offering numerous dual credit and IDLA courses again this year. We have a great partnership with LCSC and appreciate the dedication our teachers show by giving our students the opportunity to accrue numerous college credits before they graduate high school. During the 2025-26 school year, Prairie High School students enrolled in a combined 284 dual credit courses across 24 different college-level classes. 880 college credits were earned by the students. Based on Lewis-Clark State College’s part-time tuition rate per credit, these credits represent an estimated tuition savings of approximately $372,240 for Prairie families. There were 945 credits earned in the 2024-25 school year with an approximate $472,500 tuition savings for local families. Each year numbers fluctuate, but the district has been impressed with how many students take advantage of these opportunities. We look forward to continuing this opportunity for all of our students.
We welcome new staff members to the district this year, Danica Seubert- Prairie Elementary School paraprofessional, Tiffanee Wemhoff- Prairie Elementary School 1st grade teacher, Lexi Schumacher- Prairie Elementary School paraprofessional, and Shelby VonBargen- Prairie Jr/Sr High School paraprofessional.
There is one paraprofessional position open at the Jr/Sr High School that we would like to fill if there is anyone interested in applying. We will post for the Jr High girls basketball positions after school starts and run the ad for 2 weeks. The AD’s already have applications, but we haven’t officially posted the job yet. The plan is to have that filled and approved at the September or October school board meeting.
Student Teachers
Amelia Uhlenkott is completing her studies through LCSC and will be K-8 certified at the end of the school year. She will be completing her observation hours in the Fall at the elementary school. She will be student teaching in 5th grade with Kristi Bruegeman.
Tessica Lustig is completing her studies through WGU and will be K-8 certified. She will be completing her student teaching in 2nd grade with Andrea Brannan this Fall and will complete her program prior to Christmas Break.
We are excited to have them in the building this year!
Summer Camp
The elementary school offered a summer “camp” program for elementary students in June and July. 3 days a week for 3 weeks. This was facilitated by Becky Higgins and her summer school help consisted of Cami Shears, Brittany Stewart, Erin Shears, and Madison Shears. There were 37 students enrolled (33 students attended) with a 90% attendance rate. Attendance always fluctuates due to other summer activities scheduled at the same time for families. All the students did well in the program. Thank you to these ladies for their hard work and taking time out of their summer to assist these students.
Projects throughout the summer
Prairie Elementary School had carpet squares installed in the upper hall classrooms at the beginning of June. Brittany Stewart, Kim Schumacher, Kristi Bruegeman and the new multipurpose rooms were carpeted. The old multipurpose room (now the new library) was carpeted this past Spring Break and Maureen Munger did a great job getting settled into the new library in April and May of last school year. The breezeway between the cafeteria and K1 building was also carpeted over Spring Break last spring as well. This will cut down on the stripping and waxing of the tiles, which can be time consuming.
The gym roof dome along with the flat roofs on the west and east of the gym were refinished this summer. The old membrane was removed, we estimated that the membrane was 30+ years old. The new membrane turned out great. The exterior vents on the east and west side of the dome, which were no longer used, were removed and the dome faces were replaced with tin. The membrane on the bus door entry in the lower parking lot was removed and replaced with a new membrane as well. The roof line was extended out to help with water issues. We are now working with a local contractor to have new gutters installed.
The City of Cottonwood filled the large cracks in the 2 upper parking lots at the high school and local highway districts combined to sealcoat the parking lots. It has been a number of years since this was completed and the parking lot definitely needed it. They all did a great job. The parking lots were swept on Tuesday, August 18th and we will get the parking lines painted soon..
The district utilized work crews on 3 separate Fridays throughout the summer from NICI to help with bleacher clean up in the high school gym and gym floor prep for refinishing. They helped remove river rock and pea gravel at the elementary school. They installed a landscape border and put new rock around the front of the elementary school. They put down rubber bark under the playground equipment in the K1 playground area. They removed the pea gravel from that area to eliminate the mess in the K1 building. They cleaned up all the pine cones and pine needles on the backside of the high school weight room. It is great to partner with NICI to get these types of projects done with their work crews! We hope to continue to work with them in the future!
The high school, elementary, and auxiliary gym floors were refinished this summer and are ready for the upcoming sport seasons. They turned out great.
More info
If you are interested in becoming a substitute in the district, please contact Jennifer Riener rienerj@sd242.org at the elementary school and she can get you started with the process. We are always looking to add people to our substitute pool.
The district is always looking for certified bus drivers as well. If you are interested in learning more about this, please contact Dave Shears at shearsd@sd242.org
If any community members are interested in being on an email list for the schools, please contact Jennifer Riener at the elementary school rienerj@sd242.org or Matt Elven at the Jr/Sr High School elven@sd242.org The district has a couple Facebook pages you can follow as well. There is the Prairie Elementary PEPA page as well as the district wide Prairie Pirates page.
We plan to use the SchoolMessenger notification system again this year. This is a mass email, text, phone call if there is a district emergency, school closure and any other pertinent information that we may need to get out to a large group of people in a quick manner. I will send a message a few weeks after school starts to test the system and make sure people are in the system correctly. We will get it figured out.
We are looking forward to another great year. We hope you enjoyed your summer and we hope you all have a fantastic 2026-27 school year!
Go Pirates!
Jon Rehder
Superintendent
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