Monroe County Schools has submitted a waiver request to the West Virginia Department of Education for up to five instructional days. This is due to the recent weather related school closures in January.
The Peterstown Middle School students of the month are Ellanor Raines and Dailyn Grose.
Monroe County Technical Center met with Mountain View Middle School students to review career clusters. Students were able to rotate through the 11 career clusters and speak with MCTC Instructors and high school students who helped describe the cluster of classes students take at the high school level to complete a career clusters! #PublicSchoolProudWV
Monroe County Schools will operate on a 2-hour delay on Tuesday, February 24, 2026.
🐄🌾 Monroe County FFA Stockman’s Team Shines at Virginia Tech! 🌾🐄
This weekend, the Monroe County FFA Stockman’s Team competed at the Virginia Tech Block and Bridle Event, finishing in the top third of an extremely competitive field!
This rigorous competition included:
• Animal evaluation
• Retail meats ID
• Meats evaluation
• Feed ID and usage
• Hay evaluation
• Data interpretation and application
• Equipment identification
• Keep/cull classes
With over 400 participants and 90 full teams from Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and North Carolina, this event is one of the largest and most competitive in the region, featuring beef, swine, sheep, and goat divisions.
We are incredibly proud of our Monroe County FFA teams and their hard work, dedication, and knowledge! 💜🖤
Team Members:
🐮 Megan Richardson
🐮 Mackenzie Richardson
🐮 Rylee Hubbard
🐮 Sarah Arthur
🐮 Lydia Sauselein
🐮 Maija Kubes
👏 Congratulations on an outstanding performance — Maverick pride all the way!
Monroe County Schools now offers MealViewer, a convenient online service that allows you to view your student's daily meals online or on the MealViewer app. You can set up profiles to view what is being served each day, get notifications for favorite meals, and view nutritional information.
Go to https://schools.mealviewer.com/district/MonroeCountySchoolsWV to see your school's menus today!
Monroe County Grade Level Spelling Bee Winners:
4th Grade:
1st Place-Raylon McDaniel (MVS)
2nd Place-Tanner Hoke (MVS)
3rd Place-Hailey Galford (PES)
5th Grade:
1st Place-Avery Miller (PMS)
2nd Place-Hudson Lilly (PMS)
3rd Place-Eli Hancock (MVS)
6th Grade:
1st Place-Rilee Webb (PMS)
2nd Place-Peyton Burkey (PMS)
3rd Place-Eleanor Linkenhoker (MVS)
7th Grade:
1st Place-Layla Onorato (PMS)
2nd Place-Justhin Nunez (MVS)
3rd Place-Kyndall Painter (PMS)
8th Grade:
1st Place-Justus Davis (PMS)
2nd Place-Raegan Bostic (MVS)
3rd Place-Joe Dent (PMS)
County Winners:
1st Place-Rilee Webb (PMS)
2nd Place-Raegan Bostic (MVS)
3rd Place-Peyton Burkey (PMS)
Monroe County Schools will be closed for Monday, February 23, 2026.
Monroe County Schools will operate on a 3 hour delay for Monday, February 23, 2026.
Two Peterstown Robotics Club teams participated in the Mercer Co VEX IQ Robotics Competition Blended Qualifier. Both teams placed in the top 20 finishing in 6th and 9th place out of 36 teams. These students built their own robots and practiced driving them. They worked hard and developed teamwork and communication as well as goal setting and work ethic skills. Also, a big thank you to their coach Nellie Cottle 👏👏
Attention Seniors: CPR education is a requirement for graduation and here is an opportunity to become CPR certified at no cost. This is a certification that you can take with you into the workforce and/or your continuing education journey. This certification is valid for two years from the date certified. You will need to register using the attached directions and begin working on this during advisory. The deadline to complete the online portion is Friday March 27, 2026. After all seniors have completed the class, there will be a skills observation date setup so that seniors can perform their hands on evaluation to complete the certification process.
Peterstown Elementary staff and students celebrated the 100th day of school!
The next LSIC meeting for Peterstown Middle School will be held at 4:00 on March 5, 2026.
Peterstown Middle School Pirate Press
Congratulations to Kaydance Utterback and Remi Riggs for being selected as the Peterstown Middle School fifth grade students of the month for January .
Mrs. Carr and Mrs. Hill’s hospitality company at Peterstown Middle School made flower arrangements and cards for our elderly neighbors at the nursing home for Valentine’s Day.
Due to the condition of some bus routes or pickup locations, the following modifications will need to be made for tomorrow:
Bus 215-Students on Dunkard Church Rd need to meet at the church on the Back Valley side at 7:15am or James Monroe at 7:30am. It would be 3:40pm at James Monroe and 3:50pm at the church on Back Valley side.
Bus 219-Students who live on Mt Abraham will need to meet at the bottom of the road at 7:18am and 4:05pm.
Reminder: The County Spelling Bee will be held tomorrow morning at 9:30 at the Monroe County Board of Education Office in Union.
Reminder that there is no school tomorrow due to it being a Professional Learning Day for staff. We will see everyone Tuesday!
Monroe County Schools will now be closed for Friday, February 6th due to impending weather.