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By Rod Blackburn Partners In Education Foundation’s PIE Patrol distributed over $10,000 by funding twenty grants to USD 490's schools on October 22, 2026. This is the first of ...

By Pete Cisneros El Dorado High School SkillsUSA students Sebastian Lentz, Jewelsuna Murphy, Aiden Basile, and Abigail Euler attended the annual fall leadership conference at t...

El Dorado High School and Extend JAG-K students gathered at the Performing Arts Center for the annual Initiation and Installation Ceremony on Oct. 22, 2026. Students enrolled in ...

The El Dorado High School cross country team competed in the AVCTL meet in Winfield on Oct. 19, 2026. For JV Girls, KaLeigh Chastain placed fourth with a time of 27:10, beating he...

Grandview second and fourth graders learned about soil conservation and participated in the Butler County Conservation District’s annual poster contest. The contest winners were a...

The El Dorado Middle School cross country team competed in the Patriot League meet in Rose Hill on Oct. 13, 2026. Madden McGraw was league champion in the seventh grade boys one-m...

During the regional girls tennis meet in Independence on Oct. 9, 2026, two EHS doubles teams qualified to compete at state. The doubles team of Eleanor Lane and Aubrey Larcom pla...

El Dorado High School and Pete Cisneros on being recognized by the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER)! EHS was named 2026 Secondary High School of th...

El Dorado Public Schools is proud to announce that Skelly Elementary Principal Heath Henderson has been named the 2026 National Distinguished Principal for Kansas by the National A...

By Pete Cisneros El Dorado High School’s SkillsUSA team attended their District Meeting on September 25, 2026. Students met a panel of industry workers and were given the oppo...

Fourth-grade students at Blackmore Elementary applied the business skills they have been studying to a real-world activity by hosting a lemonade stand Sept. 22-25, 2026. The lemo...

Thanks to the BLAST grant, USD 490 elementary schools have a fleet of bicycles and the physical education teachers were trained in basic bicycle maintenance and safety. Second thr...

By Shawn McGuire El Dorado High School eSports competed Friday, September 18, at the Kansas State Fair eSports Tournament, sending two squads to the eight-team invitational for...

USD 490 Assistant Superintendent Carter Kruger was one of only twenty-five school officials from across Kansas to be selected for KASB’s Business Operations Leadership Development...

El Dorado Public Schools is proud to announce Katie Todd of Skelly Elementary as the 2026-2027 District Elementary Teacher of the Year and Matthew Reimer of El Dorado Middle Schoo...

We are proud to celebrate School Resource Officer Jason Lowery for being named the 2026 Kansas D.A.R.E. Officer of the Year by the Kansas Juvenile Officers Association in cooperat...