Peoria Public Schools

🎥✨We're gearing up for an exciting 2024-25 school year! Here's a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of our convocation video! 🎥✨

☀️The Annie Jo Gordon Dual Language Summer Session was an adventure, with students exploring environmental science and discovering ways to protect our planet! ☀️

🏌🏾The 27th Annual PPS Foundation Golf Outing was today! This event is one of the largest fundraisers for the foundation! 🏌🏾

✊🏿Happy Juneteeth from PPS! ✊🏿

Peoria Public Schools will be closed in observance of Juneteenth on Wednesday, June 19th!

Look at these cuties! 😎Today we are filming a commercial for the PPS Transportation Department! 😎

🌟Congratulations to Dr. Mysekeshia Mitchell of Peoria High 🌟 for winning the 2024 Illinois High School Counselor of the Year Award, standing out among 900 counselors across the state!

🌞The Summer Learning Session at Glen Oak looks like fun! Students are practicing their math skills and practicing speech and debate! 🌞

✊🏾The NAACP is hosting a Freedom Day Parade celebrating Juneteenth on June 15th at 11 am! ✊🏾

🚀 Ready to jumpstart your IT career? 🚀 Peoria high school students can now enroll in FREE technology classes with ISACA! Applications close June 6th so sign-up today and gain the skills you need for the IT workforce!

🌈Happy Pride Month from PPS! 🌈

🏋🏾Planet Fitness offers free memberships for teens aged 14-19 all summer! 🏋🏾

Head Custodian at Hines, Brandt Brooks said, "[I want] to help the kids and teachers have a clean building. I went to Hines as a kid so I enjoy coming here every day."

⭐Meet PPS's 2024 D2 Program graduates! Since 2018, 40 students have earned their high school diploma and an associate's degree! ⭐

Alum Lisa Hainline said, "I wanted to teach in the district that I graduated from and I chose to have both of my children go to PPS as well."

⭐We are celebrating Woodruff alum this week! ⭐ "My time at Woodruff had an enormous impact on my personal, social and academic development that shaped me into the teacher that I have become. The teachers at Woodruff made an indelible impression on me and it was that impression that brought me back to PPS to teach." - Kendrya Thomas

⭐Happy Memorial Day! Schools and offices are closed! ⭐

🚗 Woodruff Career and Technical Center Auto-body students pose with the car that they fixed up this semester! 🚗

🎒 Kellar Primary 2nd grader Adelaide T-K signed a Letter of Intent to become a teacher! Mr. Rohwedder will check in on her in 2034! 🎒

Alum Jamie Jackson said that she wants to, "Make a positive difference in my work environment, provide safe transportation for students who rely on our department, and provide quality trainings for employees in transportation."