Friday, September 26:

Homecoming 2025

Hallsville Golden Tribe Homecoming Event

Monday, October 6: 

School in Session

End of First Quarter

Monday, October 20:

Parent Teacher Conferences

Tuesday, October 21: 

Second Quarter Begins

Thursday, October 23:

Picture Retake Day

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We are excited to celebrate Homecoming 2025 on Friday, September 26! 

The Hallsville High School Indians football team will host Eldon at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, September 26, for the 2025 Homecoming game. The homecoming parade will also be on Friday, September 26, at 1:30 p.m. All preschoolers through 12th grade who are not participating in the parade will be able to watch, and we invite the community to line the streets as well.

The parade will kick off at 1:30 p.m. and will exit at the back of Hallsville Primary School onto Ricketts Road. Please be mindful traffic will be impacted as the parade travels through town!

Show your school spirit and dress up for HoCo!

The 2025 Hallsville Homecoming shirts are officially on sale, and it’s time to get yours! Celebrate this year’s theme, Destination Homecoming, and show your Tribe pride all week long.

All shirt orders are due by the end of the day today, Tuesday, September 23rd. Orders can be placed online at the link below. ShirtWorx will begin printing on Thursday and Friday. Please do not call the shop asking about orders. All shirts will be ready for pickup at ShirtWorx on Friday, and customers will be contacted directly when their order is ready.

Thank you to the HHS Student Council for designing this year’s shirts. Don’t wait—order today and be ready for Destination Homecoming!

We are excited to continue to grow our Hallsville Golden Tribe, a new program open to Hallsville community members aged 60 and older! This group was created to strengthen connections and offer members the opportunity to stay informed, engaged, and involved with the achievements and programs of Hallsville School District. The Golden Tribe aims to enhance community ties while celebrating the accomplishments that contribute to the success of our students, teachers, and district programs.

Golden Tribe Homecoming Dinner & Football Game

Homecoming Night, Friday, September 26 | 5:00 p.m.

Hallsville Primary School

The event will include:

• Dinner provided by the Hallsville Heart Attack BBQ Team
• District Update
• Admission to Hallsville Homecoming Football Game

Below are highlights of items discussed during the open session of the Board of Education meeting on Wednesday, September 17, 2025. The full agenda with document links is available on the district website. The next regular session meeting is Wednesday, October 15, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. in the Hallsville Primary School cafeteria. 

RECOGNITIONS

• HMS principal recognized Karen Grove and April Flach for leading our After School Support program, supporting student academic success.

• Congratulations to the Primary School for earning the Missouri Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support Award of Excellence for the first time and to the Intermediate School for earning this award for the second consecutive year! This prestigious award recognizes their exceptional implementation of PBIS across all levels: Universal (Tier 1), Targeted (Tier 2), and Intensive (Tier 3). Their continued dedication to PBIS has built strong systems that benefit all students. This award not only acknowledges their hard work but also reinforces their commitment to ongoing, data-driven decision-making and continuous professional development. We value their leadership and look forward to seeing the entire district achieve similar success, inspired by their high standard.

• The district’s maintenance department was recognized for their dedication and hard work on maintaining district facilities.

• The High School PBIS Team is exploring ways to incentivize attendance with class competitions and more recognition for students who show up each day. Currently, the average daily attendance is at 99%. Our building goal is to maintain at least 90% of students having 90% attendance for the entire school year.

Students who reside outside our district must pay tuition, which is set by the Board of Education. Our tuition rate for 2024-2025 was $9,846 per full-time nonresident student. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education reported expenditures per pupil at $10,650.53, based on the 2025 Annual Secretary of the Board Report for the Hallsville School District. The board approved the tuition rate at $10,651 per year for full-time nonresident students.

DISTRICT-WIDE LITERACY PLAN (CSIP 1.1.6) Last year, a committee of 17 teachers and administrators began developing a district-wide literacy plan. They reviewed Missouri DESE resources and created a staff survey, which informed the district’s new literacy vision statement finalized in the spring:

"Hallsville School District is committed to creating a literacy-rich environment where engaging, evidence-based instruction empowers all students to build essential literacy skills and become resilient learners prepared to thrive in a changing world." This fall, the committee is continuing its work by designing a needs assessment aligned to the DESE model. 

POLICY UPDATES 

The Board voted and approved the following policies after the first reading, as many of the policy updates went into effect on August 28, 2025. A summary of each policy was presented titled “Superintendent Letter - August 2025.” 

2025-2026 PRELIMINARY ENROLLMENT DATA 

Preliminary enrollment numbers indicate a smaller total enrollment, with the most significant drops in our senior and kindergarten classes. Mr. Hoffman and Dr. Walker will continue to monitor ADA and determine if we should consider a budget amendment to reduce the projected enrollment number we used to budget FY26 revenues and set our estimated attendance for state aid claims accordingly.

FOUR-DAY SCHOOL WEEK VOTE 

The board discussed the four-day school week vote on November 4, 2025. If the four-day school week vote were to fail in November, a draft five-day calendar has been developed. 

• Overview of four-day and five-day calendars: Provides an overview of the four and five day calendars. 
• Draft five-day calendar: This calendar is pending the November 4 vote and would eventually need board approval if the four-day school week is discontinued. This calendar would be required to have 169 instructional days. To fit 169 instructional days into our calendar without having an excessive number of hours, the school day must be reduced considerably. 
• Estimated Cost Increase for Staffing: Five-Day School Week: An overview of an estimated state funding increase for teacher salaries and estimated additional staffing costs for the 21 additional instructional days on the five-day calendar. 
• Four-Day School Week: Hiring Overview: An overview of the recruitment and retention of faculty since implementing the four-day school week.

The Hallsville Chamber of Commerce is accepting nominations for the 2025 Educator of the Year! Nominations are due by Friday, October 24. If you would like to nominate a teacher from our district who exemplifies dedication, motivation, enthusiasm, and commitment, please submit your nomination online below.

The Chamber is also accepting nominations for Business and Citizen of the Year.

The Hallsville Board of Education approved the 2026-2027 district calendar at the September meeting. This calendar has the same number of hours as our 2025-2026 calendar and the length of the instructional day will remain the same. Based on how Christmas Break falls, the District has the flexibility to maintain 1,070 hours without having to be in session on any Mondays in the fall. This calendar includes a full week of spring break, and the school year finishes prior to Memorial Day. 

This calendar is contingent on the November 4 election regarding the four-day school week. 

Parents and students in secondary schools are encouraged to download the ParentSquare app. The app provides easy access to district, building, and classroom information. Within the app, you can also change your notification settings to best fit how and when you receive communication from the school.

There are three ways that you can receive notifications: Email, Text, & App. Within each notification, you can also select off, instant, or digest.

Off: no notifications about posts will be sent to you. Emergency Alerts and Notices will still be sent.

Instant: you'll receive an email and/or text and/or an app notification every time a notice or message is sent.

Digest: you'll receive an email and/or text and/or an app notification once a day in the evening with all posts from that day. This occurs at 6:00 p.m.

Step Up for Down Syndrome

On Saturday, October 25, join us for the Step Up for Down Syndrome Walk!

HYBA 5th & 6th Grade Basketball

The Hallsville Youth Basketball Association (HYBA) is a non-school sponsored organization for youth basketball. Their objective is to foster a love for the game, create a certain skillset and help feed our Hallsville schools basketball program with our future Indians! Students must be registered by October 3. Registration for younger grades will be out later this year.