Harlan Middle School

💚🐉 Wishing our Harlan Band the best as they compete at KMEA Class 1A East Regionals today at Madison Southern High School! They perform at 9:30 PM for a chance to advance to state. We’re proud of their hard work and grateful for our band parents and everyone supporting them! Go band! 🎶💚

💚🐉 Good luck to our Harlan Cross Country runners as they compete in the Region 6 Class 1A Championship at Lynn Camp! 👟 Girls race at 3:00 PM 👟 Boys race at 4:00 PM Our Dragons are racing for a team bid to state! Give it your all, Dragons! 💚

🇺🇸 Harlan Independent Schools: Honoring Our Veterans! 🇺🇸

Harlan Independent Schools invites all Green Dragon families to help us honor the veterans in their families as part of our upcoming Veterans Day Program on November 11th!

We would love to recognize the brave men and women who have served our country by including their information and photographs in a special video that will be displayed during our district's Veterans Day program.

📸 Do you have a veteran in your family? We invite you to complete the Google Form attached to this post and submit information and a picture of your veteran so we can include them in this special tribute.

📌 Important Reminder: If you have submitted your veteran's information in the past, it will automatically be included in this year's video. There is NO NEED to resubmit!

Let's come together as a Family of Dragons to celebrate, remember, and honor the veterans who have made a difference in our lives and our nation. Thank you for helping us recognize their service and sacrifice!

https://forms.gle/XqRyB2d5FyiVNUhg8

If you have any questions, please email Megan Freyer at HHS: megan.freyer@harlanind.kyschools.us


🇺🇸 Once a Dragon, Always a Dragon! 🇺🇸

‼️ 5/6 Grade Boys Basketball Practice is canceled for today!! ‼️

🏐 52ND DISTRICT ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM!! 🏐

Join us in congratulating Bryleigh Ward and Gracie Hensley as they earned a spot on the 52nd District All-Tournament Volleyball Team!! We are proud of these young ladies!! #GoBigGreen

❤️ RED RIBBON WEEK IS COMING! ❤️

🐉 Harlan Middle & High School students, get ready to show your school spirit and stand up for a drug-free life!

Red Ribbon Week kicks off NEXT MONDAY, and we’re celebrating with a week of fun dress-up themes! Check out the attached flyer to see each day’s theme and start planning your outfits!

Let’s make this week all about making healthy choices, supporting one another, and showing our commitment to a drug-free future!

💚🤍 Go Big Green! Be Drug-Free! 🤍💚

🎨Thanks to freshman Emersyn Turner for the Red Ribbon Graphic!

#RedRibbonWeek #BeDrugFree #GoBigGreen

🎃👻 Halloween Dance at HES! 🖤💚 Join us for a spooktacular evening of food, games, and dancing! 🎶🕸️ -Tuesday, October 27 -5:00–7:00 PM -$5 per person We can’t wait to see everyone there for some Halloween fun! 🎃🦇

🎃👻 Halloween Dance at HES! 🦇🕸️ Join us at Harlan Elementary School for a spooktacular evening of food, games, and dancing! 🎶🧡 Tuesday, October 27 5:00–7:00 PM $5 per person Come enjoy a fun-filled Halloween celebration with us! We can’t wait to see everyone there! 🎃🖤💚

📚🐉 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! 🥞🐉

📢 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! 💚🖤

🏈 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! 🧡📚