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Several art students from Sandhills attended the Mullen Art Show on April 16, 2024. The students participated in creating Marble Run Sculptures from junk while the artwork was being judged. 

Some of the many awards the students received were the following:

Charlsie Teahon: 2nd place in computer generated art

Ember Chavez: 1st place in photography

Rylyn Moody: 1st place in photography and 2nd place in fiber arts

Sophia Glidden: 2nd place in fiber arts

Mason Sutton: 1st place in photography

Eli Brogdon: 2nd place in pottery

Mattee Zutavern: 2nd places in acrylic painting and photography, and 1st place in pottery

Paizley Zutavern: 2nd place in collage. Paizley also received the Best in Show award in the junior high division for her acrylic painting, and placed 2nd overall in the total points scored for junior high.

The school board has approved the 2024-25 school calendar. 

Click here for a printable pdf version: 

Sandhills Public Schools has openings in the following positions: 

School Nurse - This position takes approximately 40 hours per year and duties include: student health screenings, monitoring health equipment, bus driver drug testing, and other school health duties.  If interested please reach out to J.D. at the high school 308-538-2224.

Kitchen/custodial aide position -  This position takes approximately 30-35 hours per week and duties include: loading and delivering lunch to the elementary in Halsey, serving lunch and cleaning after lunch, and general maintenance in the new activity building. If interested please reach out to J.D. at the high school 308-538-2224.

SPED RECORD RETENTION:

Sandhills Public Schools will be cleaning obsolete files and records from file cabinets this summer.  We will be destroying SPED files that are more than 5 years old from the graduation of the student. If you would like your students SPED files for your records, please contact the school prior to June 1, 2024.  This is in compliance with 009.03M Retention and Destruction of Information and Records.

009.03M Retention and Destruction of Information and Records

009.03M1 The school district or approved cooperative shall retain special education records for five (5) years after the completion of the activities for which special education funds were used.

009.03M2 The school district or approved cooperative shall inform parents when personally identifiable information collected, maintained, or used is no longer needed to provide educational services to the child.

009.03M3 The information which is no longer necessary to provide educational services to the child, must be destroyed at the request of the parents. However, a permanent record of a student's name, address, and phone number, his or her grades, attendance record, classes attended, grade level completed, and year completed may be maintained without time limitation.

SPED Record Retention.pdf

Caleb Furrow, Rylyn Moody, Paizley Zutavern, and William Smith were selected to have their artwork displayed at the State Capital Building in Lincoln as part of the Youth Art Month show. Kindergarten through 12th grade students from all parts of Nebraska contributed work for the show. A reception for the artists and their families was held in the Capital Building's rotunda on March 23.

Here are the 2023-24 MNAC All-Conference Basketball Rosters: 

Girls: 

Boys: 

Congratulations to the Sandhills students on their great showing this year! 

Sandhills Public Schools has surplussed the paper shed. 

This is a 12x16 ft building.  We will be taking closed bids for the building and opening them at our regular March meeting, March 11th 7:00 p.m. If interested, please submit your bid in a sealed envelope to the high school office in Dunning or mail your bid to Sandhills Public Schools, PO Box 29, Dunning, NE 68833. 

If you have questions please Call J.D. at the high school (308)-538-2224. 

The building will go to the highest bidder and it will be the responsibility of the auction winner to move the building.  The building needs to be moved by the end of March.