Harlan Independent Schools

📚🐉 Family Literacy Night at HES! 💚🖤 Join us for an evening of fun literacy activities, games, and prizes for the whole family! Monday, October 26 5:00–7:00 PM Harlan Elementary School We can’t wait to see our Dragon families there! 💚📖

💚🐉 What a weekend for Harlan Cross Country! Our runners traveled to Lynn Camp to get a feel for the regional course ahead of next weekend. Despite brutally cold and windy conditions, these kids persevered and delivered some incredible performances, with multiple runners earning season or personal best times! 👏 Special shoutouts to Lillie Carver for breaking 24 minutes and Cruz Galloway for breaking 20 minutes, both setting new personal bests! Most of our middle school varsity runners also tackled TWO races in one day, with many earning personal bests in BOTH races! Their determination and effort deserve to be celebrated! 🏃 LYNN CAMP PRE-REGIONAL RACE Girls: Harper Carmical - 22:31.03 Lillie Carver - 23:53.82 Cora Jones - 25:03.63 Audree Mills - 26:28.60 Adelyn Burgan - 26:49.38 Josephine Toll - 27:39.16 Gwen Toll - 29:23.72 Boys: Gibson Wilder - 19:52.55 Cruz Galloway - 19:56.74 Carter White - 21:20.42 Mason Raleigh - 23:26.03 Tucker White - 23:44.03 🏆 KTCCCA MEET OF CHAMPIONS Our elementary and middle school runners competed in the CHAMPIONSHIP Division, taking on some of the best runners in Kentucky! Every one of our runners earned a personal best and represented the Harlan Green Dragons with pride! 💚 To be the best, you have to compete against the best, and these Dragons rose to the challenge! 🐉 4TH GRADE & UNDER • 2K CHAMPIONSHIP Girls: Lucy Miller - 9:12.35 Shelby Parsons - 9:13.46 MJ Taylor - 9:14.05 Ellianna Carver - 10:03.96 Ramsi Fields - 10:27.77 Leah Burkhart - 10:59.42 Oakley Moody - 11:26.54 Boys: Emmett Alred - 8:32.58 Tyler White - 8:43.66 Ryder Bailey - 8:55.70 Sherman Ward - 10:06.82 🐉 6TH GRADE & UNDER • 3K CHAMPIONSHIP Girls: Jullianne Miller - 11:51.97 • 23rd place Brooklyn Huff - 12:58.74 Sadie Skidmore - 14:53.22 Boys: Conner Ward - 12:45.26 🐉 MIDDLE SCHOOL • 4K CHAMPIONSHIP Girls: Lillie Carver - 18:55.44 Cora Jones - 19:57.43 Josephine Toll - 21:46.83 Boys: Carter White - 16:59.21 TL Miller - 17:45.43 Canaan Bolton - 19:17.96 Xander Owens - 20:50.54 Tucker White - 20:51.44 We are so proud of the hard work, perseverance, and heart these runners bring to every course. Keep pushing, Dragons! 💚🐉

🏐🐉 IT'S DISTRICT TOURNAMENT TIME!! 🐉🏐

Tonight the Lady Dragons will take on the Bell County Lady Cats in the District Tournament Semifinals at Middlesboro High School!! GO BIG GREEN!! 💚

📍 Middlesboro High School
⏰ 6:00 PM
🏐 Harlan Lady Dragons vs. Bell County Lady Cats

🥎 MIDDLE SCHOOL SOFTBALL OPEN FIELD 🥎

Middle School Softball Open Field will be held ALL WEEK from 4:00–5:30 PM!! Let's go, Green!!

💚🖤 Thank you to all of our fourth-grade grandparents and families who joined us for Grandparents’ Breakfast at Harlan Elementary School! We loved having you! 🥞🐉

🎓 Attention, Harlan High School seniors! Jostens will be here tomorrow, Tuesday, October 20th, before school from 7:30-8:30 AM to take cap and gown orders. ❗ This is the ONLY in-person ordering visit. If you do not order tomorrow, you must place your order online before November 16th. 💚 Make plans to stop by and get ready for graduation!

📢 There will be NO Dragons Beyond the Bell (DBBE) at Harlan Elementary School on Monday, October 19, due to an after-school faculty and staff meeting. Thank you for your understanding! 💚🖤

💚🐉 Huge shoutout to our Harlan cross country runners who competed at Lynn Camp as they gear up for regionals next Saturday! 👏 Congratulations to Tanner Daniels and Harper Carmical on earning spots on the All-SEKC Team! We’re proud of our runners and their hard work! Go Dragons! 💚

🏈🐉 Join us tonight as Harlan takes on Lynn Camp! 💚 Senior Night festivities begin at 6:00 PM, followed by kickoff at 7:30 PM. Prior to our HHS Band performance, we will be recognizing Izack Saylor, our 2026 Class A Boys High Jump State Champion, and welcoming back the 1996 District Champion football team as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of their championship season! Come celebrate our seniors, honor our champions, and cheer on the Green Dragons!

🏈 IT’S GAME DAY, GREEN DRAGONS! 🏈🐉

It’s Friday night football in Harlan! 💚🤍 Tonight, our Harlan Green Dragons take on the Lynn Camp Wildcats under the lights!

🏈 Opponent: Lynn Camp Wildcats
🕢 Kickoff: 7:30 PM
🎉 Senior Night Festivities: 6:00 PM

Before kickoff, we’ll celebrate our outstanding fall senior athletes as Harlan High School honors the seniors who have represented our Green Dragon family with pride, dedication, and hard work. We invite all Green Dragon fans to arrive early, cheer on our seniors, and help us make this a special night!

Let’s pack the stands, wear our Green and White, and show our Dragons what it means to have the support of the entire Harlan community! 💚

🐉 ONE TEAM. ONE FAMILY. GO BIG GREEN! 🐉

#HarlanGreenDragons #DragonPride #FridayNightLights #SeniorNight #GoBigGreen

🐉💚 IT’S SENIOR NIGHT AT HARLAN HIGH SCHOOL! 💚🐉

Tonight, we celebrate the incredible Class of 2027 Green Dragons! 🏈📣⛳🏃‍♂️🎺

Before tonight’s home football game, Harlan High School will recognize our seniors from football, cheerleading, golf, cross country, and marching band, honoring their hard work, dedication, and contributions to the Green Dragon family over the past four years.

📣 Senior Night festivities begin at 6:00 PM!

We invite all Green Dragon families, friends, and fans to come out, show your support, and help us celebrate these outstanding seniors. From the field to the sidelines, the golf course to the cross-country trails, and the marching band, these Dragons have made their mark on Harlan High School, and we are so proud of all they have accomplished!

The Class of 2027 is a special part of our Green Dragon family, and tonight is all about recognizing the memories they've made, the traditions they've carried on, and the legacy they're building. Let's fill the stands with Green and White and make this a night they will never forget!

Once a Dragon, Always a Dragon!

🐉 GO BIG GREEN! 🐉

📸 Thanks to Jon and Heather Photography for the senior portraits.

#SeniorNight #ClassOf2027 #OnceADragonAlwaysADragon #GoBigGreen

🐉🏐 VOLLEYBALL MATCH!! 🏐🐉

The HHS Lady Dragons are headed to Barbourville to take on the Lady Tigers for their last regular season match! Good luck, ladies!! #GOBIGGREEN

📍 Barbourville High School
⏰ JV – 6:00 PM
🔥 Varsity to follow

🍁🍂 Falling Into Poetry at HES!🍂🍁 Our second graders have been exploring poetry through a fun fall-themed writing activity! Students created acrostic poems using the letters in the word FALL to brainstorm descriptive words and phrases that capture the season. This creative activity helped students strengthen their writing skills, expand their vocabulary, practice using descriptive language, and express their ideas through poetry. Students also decorated their own fall leaves to bring their writing to life! 🧡🍁✏️

🐉💚 Way to Go, Green Dragons! 🎉

The Kentucky Department of Education has released the 2026 Kentucky Summative Assessment (KSA) accountability results, and Harlan Independent School District is proud to report strong academic performances once again!

🏆 Harlan High School received the highest rating of Blue and ranks #24 out of 228 high schools in Kentucky! Harlan Elementary School earned a Green rating, and Harlan Middle School earned a Yellow rating.

👏 We are incredibly proud of our students, teachers, principals, and support staff, whose hard work and dedication have helped Harlan Independent School District achieve outstanding academic results.

The District looks forward to celebrating our amazing KSA results in the weeks to come! 🎉🐉

🍬🎃 Sweet Math Learning! ➕➖ Students had a sweet time practicing addition and subtraction using candy corn! This fun, hands-on activity helped students strengthen their counting skills, build number sense, and solve addition and subtraction problems within 20. By using candy corn as a math manipulative, students were able to model problems, explore different strategies, and develop a deeper understanding of addition and subtraction! 🧡📚

🏐 Volleyball Gameday!! 🏐

The HHS Lady Dragons are hitting the road to take on the Pineville Lady Lions this evening!!

⏰ JV Match: 6:00 PM
🏐 Varsity to follow

GO BIG GREEN! 🐉💚

🦸‍♂️❤️ RED RIBBON WEEK AT HES! ❤️🦸‍♀️ Harlan Elementary is celebrating Red Ribbon Week October 26–30! 🎉 Join us for a fun-filled week of dress-up days as we encourage our students to make healthy choices and stay drug free! ❤️ Monday: Dress Like a Hero 🦸‍♂️ 🐾 Tuesday: Camo or Animal Print 💚 Wednesday: Dress Like Your Everyday Hero 💤 Thursday: Pajama Day 🎃 Friday: Halloween Costumes ✨ Be a Hero, Stay Drug Free! ✨

💚🐉 Good luck to our Harlan varsity cross country runners as they compete at the SEKC meet in Williamsburg today! Run strong, give it your all, and make every mile count! Go Dragons! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

🏀 Boys basketball open gym will be held today from 3:00–5:00 PM for 5th and 6th graders only. This is a non-mandatory practice. Attendance is optional!

🔢🎉 Learning Through Bingo! Mrs. Goldey’s class had fun playing Bingo while strengthening their number recognition and practicing different counting strategies! This engaging, hands-on activity helped students build number sense, improve their counting skills, and develop mathematical thinking—all while learning through play! 💚🐉