Parsons District Schools

Two Parsons USD 503’s schools are the recipients of the Kansas Challenge Awards for student performance on the 2023 Kansas State Assessments. “We are pleased to award your di...

The Parsons Education Foundation (PEF) is supporting local education programs through providing 10 mini-grants to Parsons USD 503 teachers totaling $3,938.46. Each year teacher...

During her planning time Thursday morning, Tri-County Special Education Teacher Caitlin Barcus handed a young man a stack of papers to grade then sat down at her desk in her c...

USD 503 Superintendent Lori Ray presented information to the Board of Education Monday pertaining to the new law going into effect regarding open enrollment. Beginning in June,...

Large, vacuum sealed bags of hamburger and stew meat, stacked on end, now line shelves in the walk-in freezers at Parsons High School and Parsons Middle School. No big red bo...

Historically, parent-teacher conferences involve parents coming each semester to schools and listening to individual teachers talk about how a child is performing academically a...

Parsons is creating a Safe Routes to School Plan! At the beginning of 2024, Parsons was awarded a Planning and Programming (P&P) grant from the Kansas Departm...

A three-quarter-scale Humvee that community and area business and industry helped Parsons High School students build over the course of more than a decade was gifted by the USD 50...

Up until his junior or senior year of high school Seth Martin was thinking of being a lawyer. Taking debate and forensics he found he had a knack for engaging in in-depth, serio...

Every school day teachers are tasked with teaching classrooms filled with students with widely varying personalities and abilities, who all learn in different ways, at different p...

The USD 503 Board of Education was approached Monday regarding the former Washington School site being used to build a new indoor/outdoor tennis facility. “I’ve always had a dr...

There are a wide variety of clubs for high school and middle school students reflecting interests in everything from chess to anime and running to community service. What there...

As the winter holidays drew near, the newly formed Viking Dance and Color Guard burst onto the scene of area communities with energetic performances in Christmas parades and other...

USD 503 wishes all our Viking families a very Happy Holidays! Below you will find a link to the district's new quarterly newsletter. We hope you enjoy it. Each quarter we will s...

When young, we often base our ideas regarding our future professional pursuits off those things we are familiar with, but as we are exposed to the broader world we can be taken i...

At its regular board meeting Dec. 18, the USD 503 Board of Education looked at the Strategic Plan from 2020-2023 in preparation for creating a new strategic plan. The process f...

FireMon Manager of Engineering, Jesse D’Angelo, today lives in the Kansas City area with his wife Laura, and their two children, Maxwell and Marianna. His path to that career w...

Members of Parsons High School and Parsons Middle School’s C.A.M.P. Club were invited to participate in a logo contest to represent the new club. C.A.M.P. stands for Cultural A...

Clubs are a popular way for high school and middle school students to get involved with others who share similar interests, and let them explore, broaden their perspectives, devel...

You never know the possibilities unless you try is a concept that’s sometimes hard to teach children as instructors strive to instill greater confidence in students. Occasional...