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🎒 School Starts in 11 Days - Here's the Countdown

🏗️ Update: The BLHS Expansion Is Finally Finished

🏆 State of the District: A Record Grad Rate & Seven Star Awards

Looking ahead

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A clean, sunny start to the week: 88 today, 91 tomorrow, both comfortable with plenty of sunshine. Wednesday brings a slight rain chance (29%), and real rain returns Thursday at 78%. Enjoy the sunshine while it lasts.

Summer's winding down. USD 458's first day of school is Thursday, August 13 for students in PK-5, 6th grade, and 9th grade, with 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th, and 12th graders starting Friday, August 14.

If your family hasn't finished online registration yet, now's the time - remember the Transportation Form if your student rides the bus, and have proof of residency ready if you're new to the district. Registration runs through usd458.org via Skyward Family Access.

📅 First day (PK-5, 6, 9): Thursday, August 13

📅 First day (7-8, 10-12): Friday, August 14

🔗 Register: usd458.org

Back in mid-July we told you the new three-story multipurpose building at Basehor-Linwood High School was on track to wrap up construction. We can now close that loop: the addition, funded by Bond 2024 and roughly doubling the size of the high school, is complete and ready for the new school year.

The Early Learning Center's expansion is also finished ahead of the 2026-27 year, adding capacity for a district that's dealt with long preschool waitlists in recent years. Both projects are part of a run of bond-funded growth USD 458 has undertaken over the past decade as the district has become one of the fastest-growing in the county.

🏗️ Project: 3-story multipurpose building, BLHS, funded by Bond 2024

👶 Also complete: Early Learning Center expansion

⭐ Why it matters: More room for a district that's grown past 3,000 students

Superintendent Chris Vignery gave the district's annual State of the School District update recently, and the numbers are strong: 228 students graduated this year with a 94.6% graduation rate, and USD 458 remains the only school district in Kansas to earn all seven Kansans Can Star Recognition awards.

Student-athletes reached state finals in football, boys and girls wrestling, softball, golf, and track and field. And a nice community touch: students in a geometry-in-construction class, partnering with Chamber member PCDI and the City of Basehor, built a playhouse fire station now headed for Basehor City Park - with plans to add a new play structure there each school year.

🎓 Graduation rate: 94.6% (228 graduates)

⭐ Recognition: All seven Kansans Can Star awards, the only district in Kansas to do so

🏘️ Community project: Student-built playhouse fire station coming to Basehor City Park

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