Harlan High School

👑🐉 MEET OUR 2026 FOOTBALL HOMECOMING CANDIDATES! 🐉👑

It’s time to celebrate the outstanding young ladies who will represent Harlan High School as our 2026 Football Homecoming candidates!

We are excited to introduce this year’s candidates and celebrate their school spirit and pride in being a part of the Green Dragon Family! 🐉

Be sure to join us TONIGHT as we recognize our candidates during our Homecoming festivities!

⏰ Homecoming Festivities Begin: 5:45 PM
🏈 Kickoff: 7:30 PM
📍 Joe Gilly Field

Come early, wear your BLACK for our Blackout, and help us make this a Homecoming to remember!

👑 Congratulations to all of our 2026 Homecoming candidates! 👑

Once a Dragon, Always a Dragon! 🐉

🏈🖤 TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT! 🖤🏈

It’s Football Homecoming at Harlan High School, and the Green Dragons are ready for the Battle of 119! 🐉🔥

The Harlan Green Dragons take on the Pineville Mountain Lions tonight, and we want to see the entire Green Dragon Family in the stands!

🖤 TONIGHT’S THEME: BLACKOUT! 🖤
👑 Homecoming Begins: 5:45 PM
🏈 Kickoff: 7:30 PM
📍 Joe Gilly Field

Come early for Homecoming, wear your BLACK, and bring your loudest Dragon pride! Let’s fill Joe Gilly Field and make it a night to remember!

🐉💚 GO BIG GREEN! 💚🐉

📸 Thanks to junior Carson Osborne for another game day graphic!

🏈🖤 IT’S HOMECOMING! 🖤🏈

The wait is almost over! Tomorrow night, the Harlan Green Dragons take on the Pineville Mountain Lions in the Battle of 119!

And it’s not just any Friday night… IT’S HOMECOMING! 👑💚

🖤 TOMORROW NIGHT’S THEME: BLACKOUT! 🖤

Dragon fans, we need you to pack the stands, wear your BLACK, and bring the energy as we celebrate Homecoming and cheer on our Green Dragons!

👑 Homecoming Ceremony: 5:45 PM
🏈 Kickoff: 7:30 PM
📍 Joe Gilly Field
🔥 Harlan vs. Pineville — Battle of 119
🖤 BLACKOUT THEME

Come early for Homecoming, stay for the game, and help us make Joe Gilly Field LOUD! 📣

📸 Thanks to HHS junior Carson Osborne for the gameday graphic!

LET’S GO, DRAGONS! 🐉💚🖤
#GoBigGreen #HOCO2026 #BattleOf119

First Grade Career Day! 💼✨ Our first grade students had a wonderful time learning about different careers from people throughout our community! We are so thankful to everyone who took the time to visit Harlan Elementary and share their careers and experiences with our students. 💚🐉 Thank you for helping inspire our future! 🌟

Thank you to our Dragon Disciples and everyone who joined us for Meet Me at the Pole at Harlan Elementary! We are grateful to everyone who came together to pray for our school, students, staff, and community. 💚🙏🐉

It’s Homecoming Friday at HHS! 👑🏈 The Green Dragons take on Pineville in the Battle of 119. It’s a BLACK OUT, so wear black and help us fill the stands! Homecoming begins at 5:45 p.m. Participants, please arrive by 5:30 p.m. Go Big Green! 🐉

🏐 Volleyball Match!! 🏐

The HHS Lady Dragons are back in action this evening!! They are traveling to Middlesboro High School to take on the Lady Jackets!! JV begins at 6:00 PM, with varsity action to follow. Go Big Green!! #FamilyofDragons

Harlan Elementary students and families had a great time participating in the STEAM Tower Tumbler Lesson and the Family Mosaic Dragon Wing Build with Brick Mobile! 🐉 These hands-on activities gave students and families the opportunity to be creative, work together, and use their problem-solving and STEAM skills. A special thank you to PRI FSCS SSU and Barbara Ledford for helping make these wonderful learning opportunities possible for our students and families! 💚

Join us this Wednesday for Meet Me at the Pole! 🙏💚 Dragon Disciples will be participating at 7:25 AM in front of Harlan Elementary School as we come together to pray for our school, our students, our teachers, and our community. We hope to see you there! 💚🐉

The HHS Lady Dragon Volleyball team is back in action this evening as they host the Jenkins Cavaliers!! JV action is set for 6:00 PM, with Varsity to follow!! Go Big Green!! #FamilyofDragons

⛳🐉 REGION MATCH DAY! 🐉⛳

It’s time to hit the course! Our Green Dragon Golf team is at Eagle’s Nest in Somerset today to compete in the Region Match! ⛳

We’re wishing all of our golfers the very best as they take on the course. P💚🤍

Good luck, Dragons! We’re behind you all the way!

🐉⛳ GO BIG GREEN! ⛳🐉

🍳💚 First Grade Grandparents’ Breakfast! 💚🍳 We loved welcoming our first grade grandparents and families to HES for a special breakfast! Thank you for joining us and making wonderful memories with our students. 🐉💚

It’s Spirit Week at HHS and HMS! 🐉💚 Join the fun September 21–25 and show your Green Dragon spirit each day! 🎒 Monday: Anything But a Backpack 👯 Tuesday: Twin Day 🩳 Wednesday: Adam Sandler Day 💤 Thursday: Pajama Day 🖤💚 Friday: Blackout/Harlan Day Go Big Green!

🐉SPIRIT WEEK STARTS TOMORROW!🐉 The countdown to Homecoming 2026 is officially on! Tomorrow marks the first day of Spirit Week at Harlan High School, and we are ready to see our Green Dragons show off their school spirit all week long! We’re kicking off Spirit Week as we get ready for Friday night’s Homecoming celebration, which will take place before the Harlan Green Dragons take on the Pineville Mountain Lions! 🏈👑 It’s time to dress up, show your Green Dragon pride, and celebrate what makes Harlan High School so special—our students, our traditions, our school, and our community! Let’s make this a Spirit Week to remember! 💚🐉 GO BIG GREEN!

🔢✨ Place Value Fun in Mrs. Estep’s Class! ✨🔢 Mrs. Estep’s class started learning about place value! Students used bundling sticks to see how 10 ones make 1 ten, 10 tens make 1 hundred, and 10 hundreds make 1 thousand. What a fun, hands-on way to build an understanding of place value! 💯📚

Good luck to our Harlan Green Dragons Cross Country team as they compete in Lee County, Virginia, this morning! Run strong and make Harlan proud! 🐉💚🏃

💗🐉 Dragons Against Cancer! 🐉💗 Harlan Independent Schools will hold our Annual Dragons Against Cancer Walk on Thursday, October 8th at 1:30 PM! Students can participate with a $1 donation and a signed permission slip. All donations and T-shirt profits will benefit the UK Markey Cancer Center. 👕 Cancer Walk T-shirts are $15 and available in pink or gray! Sizes: Youth Small – Adult XL XXL: $18 XXXL: $19 XXXXL: $20 T-shirt orders are due Friday, September 25th! 💵 Checks should be made payable to Harlan Ind. School District with “Cancer Walk” written in the memo line. For questions, please contact Emma Eversole at emma.eversole@harlaind.kyschools.us. Thank you for supporting our Dragons as we come together for a great cause! 💕🎗️

📣ATTENTION: DATE CHANGE You’re invited to the 1st Annual Green Dragons Athletics Dinner! 🐉💚 Join us for an evening of great food, fellowship, and support for Harlan Green Dragons Athletics. 📅 Saturday, November 21, 2026 🚪 Doors open at 6:30 p.m. 🍽️ Dinner begins at 7:00 p.m. 📍 HISD Cafeteria 🎟️ $100 per couple Each ticket includes two steak dinners and one entry into the reverse drawing for exciting cash prizes. All proceeds benefit Harlan Green Dragons Athletics. Advance ticket purchase is required. Tickets are available at the Harlan Independent High School office and may be purchased with cash or a check payable to Harlan Independent Schools. Come celebrate our athletes, coaches, and community while supporting the tradition and future of Green Dragon Athletics!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 18, 2026 Three houses steal victory from the jaws of defeat HARLAN, Ky. – On Sept. 18 at Harlan High School, house teams Griffin, Pegasus, Phoenix and Sphinx competed in pickleball and quick recall. All teams secured wins – Phoenix and Pegasus exchanged victories in their pickleball rounds while Sphinx and Griffin traded off in quick recall. House Sphinx maintains a narrow lead with 3,568 points, followed by Pegasus with 3,542, Phoenix with 3,534 and Griffin holding 3,507. Despite the drop in rank, Sphynx and Griffin house leaders remain hopeful. “No matter how hard the competition is, always stay resilient,” said Sphinx House Leader Megan Rodriguez. Harlan High School is split evenly into four separate houses. Students can earn points for their house and we have house competitions. Research shows that participation in these activities helps sharpen brain function, focus and classroom readiness. For more information, contact Principal Mike Bolton at mike.bolton@harlanind.kyschools.us.