Harlan Independent Schools

🐉🏐 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! 💚🐉

🦸‍♂️❤️ 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! ✨

Students in Dr. Saylor’s Dual Credit English 101 class recently had a well-deserved reason to celebrate! After weeks of researching, drafting, revising, citing sources, and learning the ins and outs of MLA style, students completed their first college-level research paper: a 2,000-word, 10-page paper that challenged them to think deeply, write carefully, and stick with the process from beginning to end. To mark the accomplishment, the class traded research outlines and Works Cited pages for plates full of pizza, sliders, mac and cheese, desserts, and plenty of other treats! More than anything, though, the celebration was a chance to recognize just how much work went into reaching this milestone. Completing a research paper of this length is no small task, especially for students taking on college coursework while still in high school. We are so proud of the perseverance, growth, and effort these students showed throughout the process. Moments like these are a great reminder that learning should include celebrating the hard things we accomplish along the way. Congratulations to Dr. Saylor’s English 101 students on finishing their first MLA research paper, and on taking another big step forward as college writers! 💚📚✍️

🤠💚 Mamas & Cowboys Dance! 💚🤠 A big thank you to all the families who joined us for our Mamas & Cowboys Dance! We loved seeing everyone come together for an evening filled with dancing, laughter, and special memories! Thank you for making this event so wonderful! 🐉💕

🎗️💗 Harlan Elementary students and staff came together for our Cancer Walk! We walked to honor those who are fighting, celebrate survivors, and remember those we have lost. 💕 It was a wonderful opportunity to spread awareness, show support, and remind everyone that no one fights alone! 💗💚 #HarlanElementary #CancerAwareness #HESDragons

🐉💚 Good luck to Harlan Cross Country as they compete in the Bob Howard Memorial / Area 9 Championship at Harlan County today! Run strong, give it your all, and make every mile count! Go Dragons! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

🎉 Celebrating Perfect Attendance at HES! 🎉 126 students at Harlan Elementary School achieved perfect attendance during the month of September! 🌟 Today, these students were rewarded for their dedication and commitment to showing up and being ready to learn each day. We are so proud of their hard work! 💚🐉

🏆 Congratulations to our own Nashayla Harris, who received the Appalachian Student of the Year Award tonight at the SOAR Inspires Awards, presented by KCTCS at the Corbin Center! We are so proud of Nashayla and this outstanding accomplishment! 💚🐉

🎉🎃 Congratulations to Kiah Green for winning the Fall Festival tickets! 🎟️🍂💚

🎃🍂 Our Harlan Elementary 2nd graders had a wonderful time visiting the pumpkin patch! Students enjoyed a fun-filled day of fall adventures, making memories, and spending time with their classmates! 🧡🌻 What a great way to celebrate the fall season! 🎃🍁

🏆💚 It was a great day for our Lady Dragons at the Regional Championship at Lynn Camp! 🥇 K–3 Girls — FIRST PLACE! 🥈 Middle School Girls — RUNNER-UP! Congratulations to our runners and coaches on these outstanding finishes! Go Dragons! 🐉🏃‍♀️