On January 9, 2013, a meeting was held to discuss the respective roles of key players in any response to unsafe conditions in the Blanco County public schools. First Responders from the Blanco County Sheriff’s office, the Department of Public Safety, the Blanco and Johnson City police departments, both county EMS providers, the State Parks Department, and volunteers from the Blanco, Johnson City and Round Mountain fire departments all met with administrators from Blanco ISD and Johnson City I ...

2nd Grade A Honor Roll Bayleigh DeSpain Zackary Dudley, Kori-mei Fiero, Grayci Jung, Natalie Kernick, Josh McKennis, Logan Moffett, Lexi Nevarez, Josef Sanchez, Hadley Snodgrass, Madison Stewart, Ivy Swafford 2nd Grade A/B Honor Roll Gavin Allen, Emma Burke, Dag Caroll, Jacoby Diaz, Emily Fiedler, Deackon Foster, Haden Fox, Ariana Garcia, Alaura Guggenmos, Marcus Hayes, Paige Jordan, Rian Kuvet, Tyler Lorenz, Isael Mendiola, Zoe Nuemann, Shelby Perrenoud, Amelia Rae Perez, Ema Price, Rafael ...

The school board of JCISD met on Monday, January 14th, 2013. In honor of the school board, the LBJ High School Student Council treated the members to dinner and then publically thanked them at the meeting. Jaxon Riebesehl presented the student council thank you statement. During open forum, Dawn Capra read a statement from Matt McKennis regarding a change to school board policy.

Nina Goodwin, pictured with Donnie Garrett of Johnson Sewell Ford, is the November Perfect Attendance Winner for Johnson City ISD. Nina is an English Teacher and has been with the district for 25 years.

A Message from the Stonewall Head Start and Community Preschool Center Director: Kimberly Porter, M.ED Stonewall Head Start and Community Preschool has now been operating an Afterschool Program at the First United Methodist Church for a little over two months. The children and staff have gotten into a great routine and are busy with several projects.

After a long Thanksgiving break the Head Start (HS) After School Program received a “drop-in” licensing review. Having been a TEA peer monitor myself, and as a director I appreciate these unannounced reviews. A school should always be prepared for a monitoring review at anytime. And, if a school is managed properly there shouldn’t be any surprises when a monitor suddenly and surprisingly appears.

No one wants to believe a disaster could happen in Johnson City, but the reality is a disaster could happen anywhere. Johnson City ISD practiced a district-wide evacuation drill Tuesday and moved over 700 students to temporary staging areas with a communication center. JCISD invited Chris Liesmann the County Emergency Management Coordinator, Johnson City Volunteer Fire Department , Round Mountain Volunteer Fire Department, Johnson City Police Department, Blanco County Sheriff Department, and No ...

Congratulations to the following 7th and 8th grade band students for placing in one of the region bands today! We are so proud of all the students that attended and the hard work they have done! The students that placed in the 2012 ATSSB Region 18/26 Symphonic band are: Kaityln Arvesen, Marcus Storer, and Christopher Ibarra.

2nd Grade A Honor RollGavin Allen, Bayleigh DeSpain, Zackary Dudley, Ariana Garcia, Grayci Jung, Tyler Lorenz, Josh McKennis, Logan Moffett, Amelia Rae Perez, Josef Sanchez, Hadley Snodgrass, Hannah Snodgrass, Madison Stewart, Ivy Swafford2nd Grade A/B Honor RollIzael Alvarado, Rene Alvarado, Emma Burke, Dag Caroll, Kori-mei Fiero, Deackon Foster, Haden Fox, Grant Gale, Alaura Guggenmos, Marcus Hayes, Paige Jordan, Natalie Kernick, Rian Kuvet, Hayden Moore, Zoe Nuemann, Lexi Nevarez, Shelby ...

Help our school earn credit for free educational equipment by saving your receipts from Lowe’s (Super S)! Turn them into our school and you could win free groceries and an iPod Shuffle. Our collection box is located in the LBJ High School office. When you drop off your receipts you can fill out the entry form and place it in the collection box by January 15th, 2013 for a chance to win a $500 Lowe’s grocery gift certificate and an iPod Shuffle.

Ralph Arvesen volunteers to take photos for the school, parents, and students. One of his photos won the Austin American Statesman High School Football Photo Contest. Twelve photos were selected by judges as finalists, and then it was up to the public to decide the winner. That’s where the people from Johnson City came together and helped vote for the photo, getting enough votes to win first place.

The school board of JCISD met on Monday, November 12th, 2012. No one spoke in open forum so the board went directly to the consent agenda, which passed unanimously. The first action item to be discussed regarded updates to Board policies. Since these updates were basically procedural and administrative changes, discussion was limited and the motion passed unanimously.

Six LBJ Middle School students took part in the Prejudice Awareness Summit at the State Capital on Wednesday, October 31. The PAS is an intensive daylong workshop to increase ethnic and cultural awareness among middle school students at a critical time in their personal and social development. The Austin Anti-Defamation League sponsors the workshop.

Parents of current LBJ High School Freshman and Sophomore students are encouraged to attend the STAAR EOC Parent and Student Informational Meeting scheduled for 6:30pm, Monday, October 22nd, 2012 at the LBJHS Commons. STAAR is the new State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness which was implemented last year. In the meeting many questions will be answered about the testing system, such as: What is STAAR?

Congratulations to the LBJ Fighting Eagle Band! It’s been a wonderful season, and there’s only one Marching Contest left! We participated in the Fredericksburg Marching Festival on September 29th. We marched and played very well, but didn’t quite make it into the top 3. On October 6 we competed in the 2nd Annual Vista Ridge Marching Festival, and although we were the only 2A band, we sounded great and won 1st place.