Recent News

Minnesotans over the age of five are to wear a face covering in all public indoor spaces and indoor businesses beginning July 25, 2020. This includes school buildings, the district office or while riding school transportation.

For the 2020-21 school year, John Franke will be principal on special assignment working to scale important district initiatives and supporting effective adaptations as we anticipate changing conditions in the coming school year. Megan Jahnke will become the new associate principal at the high school.

As we continue to live with COVID-19 in our communities, planning the approach to the 2020-21 school year requires managing an evolving set of complexities. We will make a decision for how school will begin this fall by August 14. See an overview of learning models for the year and health and safety measures. Families are asked to provide critical information about distance learning choices and transportation needs by Saturday, August 8.

There are a number of options for families in our community seeking food assistance this summer. The purpose of these programs is to make meals available to all area children who may otherwise not eat properly or often enough.

Trimester 3 report cards will be available beginning Wednesday, June 10. Because all of Trimester 3 occurred in a flexible learning environment, we wanted to provide a guide specific to Trimester 3 report cards for students in grades K-5 and 6-12 and instructions for accessing report cards

As Minnesota reported its first case of COVID-19 on March 6, we were headed into spring break. Since then, we’ve learned a lot about resilience, flexibility, creativity and the extraordinary things we can accomplish as Spring Lake Park Schools. As we look ahead to finishing the year in extended flexible learning, we will embrace this as an opportunity with optimism and confidence despite the sadness of not being together.

As school buildings continue to be closed in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, Spring Lake Park Schools has been feeding children through meal distribution at 10 sites throughout the community. During the Friday meal distribution, the Spring Lake Park Schools Panther Foundation has provided more than 1,600 Weekend Food Packs to families over the last several weeks.

Spring Lake Park Schools will move to an extended flexible learning environment March 30-April 30, District activities, athletics, programs and services are canceled now through May 4, 2020. Free meals continue to be available for students.

Every ten years, the U.S. Census Bureau works to count everyone in the United States, including everyone in Minnesota. This year, the counting process, or census, will kick off in March. Learn more and find out what to expect.