Harlan High School

🎶 Along with all the exciting events happening across HISD today, we’re proud to cheer on the HHS Marching Band as they kick off their season! 🎺🐉

Our talented Marching Dragons are headed to Berea to compete in the Madison Southern Eagle Classic, with their performance scheduled for 1:15 PM.

Best of luck to our band members - we know how hard you've been working, and we can't wait to see you shine on the field! 💚🖤

🏈 GAMEDAY!!!🏈 Tonight, the Green Dragons travel to Morgan County High School to take on the Cougars at 7 PM. Good luck to our Dragons! #GoBigGreen 🐉

🐉🏃‍♀️Best of luck to our Varsity, Middle School, and Elementary runners as they travel to Williamsburg to compete in the Trading Days All-A Invitational! Varsity races begin at 10:30. 🏃🐉 Go Big Green!!

🏈 Tonight's game against Morgan County has been rescheduled for tomorrow night at 7 p.m. due to weather. #GoBigGreen 🐉

🐉 Congratulations to the following Green Dragons for being elected as the September Class Leaders for their grade level. They will guide their classmates in the Clash of Classes challenges for September. In the spirit of fun, Harlan High School will be doing monthly competitions between the grade levels. Students will be competing in attendance, artwork, school spirit challenges, and much more! The grade level that earns the most points for the month will be rewarded with a prize. For September, the winning grade level will have a Picnic in the Park during lunch and advisory early in October. Let's wish these Green Dragons good luck in leading their class to victory!

💫Our teachers have had an excellent training day with Capturing Kids' Hearts. As a National Rising Star School, we've learned invaluable strategies and made exciting plans to engage our students' hearts and minds this school year. Together, we’re ready to lead and inspire our students to reach new heights! It’s going to be a fantastic year ahead! 💚🐉 #CapturingKidsHearts #RisingStarSchool #EveryDragonEveryDay #FamilyofDragons

🏐 Good Luck to our Lady Dragons in tonight's home match-up against Lynn Camp. JV starts at 6 pm! #GoBigGreen! 🐉

👟Good luck to our Cross Country team as they compete in the HC All Comers race this evening! Go Dragons!! 🐉 Special thanks to our HHS Journalism class for creating this graphic.

Learning comes alive at Harlan High! In Civics class, students rotated through various stations, taking notes on their interactive foldables while exploring how different governments function. Meanwhile, Life Skills students learned essential tasks like washing dishes and doing laundry. Everyone is all smiles as we wrap up another week. It’s always a great day to be a Dragon! 🐉

Just a reminder: there will be NO SCHOOL for Harlan Independent Schools on Monday, September 1st, in honor of Labor Day, and Tuesday, September 2nd, for a teacher in-service day. 🐉

🏐 It's GAMEDAY for the Lady Dragons! Tonight, the Lady Dragons will host the HC Lady Bears. Show up tonight and support our volleyball team!!! #GoBigGreen🐉

🐉 Harlan Middle/High School would like to congratulate the Junior class for being the Attendance winners for the first two full weeks of school! The 6th-grade class is giving them competition in the runner-up position.

This week, the district continued to give out attendance tickets for a chance to win a brand new iPad at the end of the 9 weeks. All students who had 100% attendance Monday through Friday were given their tickets Monday morning. Keep it up, Green Dragons! #AttendanceMatters #EveryDayEveryDragon 🐉

Congratulations to Harlan High School freshman Daria Lee on her 1st place victory in the All-A Regional Golf Tournament today! Way to go, Daria! 🐉⛳

🐉👟Congratulations to our Cross Country team! We had several runners place! High School Race: Tanner Daniels led the boys' varsity with a first-place finish. Excited to see what this boys varsity team will do this season. Middle School Race: Zoë Lawson, 5th place, and Aiden Burnette, 9th place led our middle school runners Elementary Races: MJ Taylor took 1st place for the 1st through 3rd-grade girls! Close by were Shelby Parsons, 4th place, and Lucy Miller, 9th place. Emmett Alred led the 1st-3rd-grade boys today with a 9th-place finish. Julianne Miller crushed the 4th-6th-grade girls' race with a 3rd-place finish. Braxton Sizemore powered through the rainstorm and gained a 5th-place finish for the 4th-6th-grade boys!

Save the date! 🐉 🏠HHS/HMS Open House will be on Monday, September 15th.

The Harlan FRYSC Advisory Council will meet on the following dates for the 25-26 school year.  All meetings will be held in the HISD Central Office and are open to the public.  Parents, guardians, and community members are welcome to attend.  For more information, contact FRYSC Coordinator Mrs. Adams at cecilia.adams@harlanind.kyschools.us or 606-573-8700, option 6.  

🎓Seniors: Make plans to attend Senior Sunrise this Friday at the Green Dragon baseball field. #Classof2026

We had a great first week back at HHS! Students have been socializing with friends, getting to know their teachers, creating social contracts to promote positive classroom behavior, and working on learning class expectations and procedures! It’s going to be a fantastic year at Harlan High School. Join us now at enrollatharlan.com 🐉 #ThisIsHHS #GreatnessAwaits #EveryDragonEveryDay

⛳️ Congratulations to the Green Dragon golf team for their 2nd place finish in the Pine Mountain Golf Conference match. Yesterday's 2nd-place finish is the highest finish for Green Dragon golf in our history! The conference rankings:
1st place: Barbourville
2nd place: Harlan Independent
3rd place (tie): Harlan County & Bell County
4th place; Clay County
5th place: Corbin

Also, congratulations to senior Baylor Varner for placing 5th amongst the individual scorers! #GoBigGreen 🐉

📢Don’t miss out on Summer EBT support. If you haven’t received Summer EBT yet, there’s still time! Apply by August 15th. ☀️

The Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer (SEBT) program helps reduce hunger and food insecurity by providing eligible school-aged children with benefits to buy groceries during the summer months when school meals aren’t available.

👦👧 Who’s Automatically Eligible?
If students are currently enrolled in SNAP, KTAP, Kinship Care, or certain income-based forms of Medicaid for at least one month since July 1, 2024, they should already be enrolled. However, kids not enrolled in these programs from households with incomes at or below the 185% poverty level are eligible but need to apply.

📝 Need to Apply?
If your student hasn’t received SNAP, KTAP, or Kinship Care since July 1, 2024, you’ll need to apply starting October 1, 2024 at:

https://KYSEBT.ky.gov/ or through https://kynect.ky.gov/benefits/

💳 How Benefits Are Received:
If you’re already receiving benefits, SEBT will be added to your existing EBT card. Otherwise, a new card will be mailed to you.

🛒 What Can You Buy?
Almost any grocery item—except hot, ready-to-eat foods. SEBT does not cover tobacco, alcohol, pet food, or non-food items.

Visit the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services (https://www.chfs.ky.gov/agencies/dcbs/dfs/pages/sebt.aspx) for more info!