Ozark Tiger E-News

All offices are closed Monday, Sept. 4 in observance of Labor Day. Enjoy your three-day weekend! We'll see you on Tuesday!

The 2023-24 school year is underway for the Ozark School District, and following an August special Board of Education meeting, a search for a new superintendent is underway as well. The Board voted to contract the Missouri School Boards’ Association to facilitate the District’s superintendent search. The goal is to conduct formal interviews with finalists before Christmas break.

The firm is starting the process by opening a stakeholder survey to gather feedback to see what qualifications the community wants to see in a superintendent.

Participate in that survey here.

Read the full release here.

There's a lot happening in the Learning Division! Click here to check out an instruction update as well as a video of the District's five-year improvement journey.

Ozark School District is one of 20 public schools across the state to be granted an Innovation Waiver by the Missouri State Board of Education. Although students may continue to take the MAP (Missouri Assessment Program) tests over the next three years, the waiver allows Ozark to break away from the traditional accountability for MAP.

Learn more about the Innovation Waiver here.

To see your child’s MAP or EOC scores, log on to your PowerSchool Parent Portal - https://ozarksd.powerschool.com - on a desktop computer. Select “Test Scores” from the menu on the left. The test subject name and level will be listed. This feature is not currently available on the app.

We absolutely love seeing our School Police in the buildings interacting with students! This photo of Dep. Hoerning was taken in a third grade classroom at South Elementary.

Ozark football players greeted elementary students on Thursday with high fives and fist bumps, inspring the littles along the way!

FYI, football games are live-streamed at http://www.ozarkmotigers.org/broadcasts

Ozark Junior High students had a break from classwork and spent time having fun in the sun today as they participated in the school's inaugural Team Day.

Students are divided into grade levels teams named after a continent. They spent the day with their teams doing indoor and outdoor team building exercises with the help of OHS JROTC and FFA students. The activities included tug-of-war, board walking, barrel racing (with stick horses), cornhole and many other fun, team-orientated games. Students also tie-dyed t-shirts to wear when they have a spirit assembly.

What a fun day!

Everyone can use a hug in the morning, and we absolutely love how Related Arts teacher at Tiger Paw, Dana Friend, greets each student with a hug or a fistbump, along with a big smile and encouraging words every morning. The students love it too!

We've got a lot to be proud of here in Ozark! Including that Ozark High School was just named a top high school by US News and World Report, ranking us in the top 7% of schools in Missouri! We couldn't be more proud of this and all the other great things our students accomplish like:

• The Class of 2023 had a graduation rate of 99%, compared to 89.7% for the state
• Students averaged an ACT score of 22.3, compared to state average of 20
• 86 students graduated Summa Cum Laude, meaning they had a GPA of 4.0 or higher
• Two National Merit Finalists and two Missouri 100 Scholars
• 22 students earned the Bright Flight Award by scoring 31 or higher on the ACT
• 129 students earned the National Career Readiness Certificate