Congratulations to Señora Diaz for being named the 2025 Regional Office of Education #11 Recognition of Excellence Award Recipient for Tuscola CUSD 301. She's as good as it gets in foreign language education. Balancing large section numbers yet still being able to connect with individual students. Furthermore, she's an excellent advocate and source of support for so many of our students and families!
TCHS senior, Dayne Lough, just recently finished his 2nd year at LIFT in Mattoon. McLain Schaefer, the Director of LIFT, had this to say about him--"Dayne has been a tremendous asset to us at LIFT. Not only is Dayne our first HVAC Youth Apprentice but has set the standard in our program even going as far as to lead some of the training for our current students. To say we are proud is an understatement."
Please see the video below to learn more about Dayne's plan and story. The video was created by Cooper Spencer who is a student at Mattoon High School and is also enrolled at LIFT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNx1XCfnb6M&list=PLsyQn2_3cJmT5bT1iT0m7yN4XKHAE3k4s&index=3
Congrats to Nathan Klie who was chosen as the Rotary Student of the Month for May!
Summer camps for our kids!! There's still time to sign up. Several of these camps have a May 16th deadline for registration.
Students in the Spotlight Drama Day Camp: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSet0EkxLif3vm2t6ZTXylWzS_hFRVYYG66HpG3lu9TrppJz5A/viewform
Volleyball Camp: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8liyEuAHULdjYtJPeGHjtm2N9InbH-qXVrDe2hVbZRBwKTQ/viewform
Girls Basketball Camp: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfAZivxn_7rGDyUwhUAyy9lH0kiGMXNmMuY3Hj6sVE-e3u6gQ/viewform
Boys Basketball Camp: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfNxy0XCBgRwbuZbiIW-WRNllTYHLNjN5Enn5w8azhUbZVnTg/viewform
Tuscola High School would like to express our sincere thanks to our community who continues to support our students through scholarships. At today's Honors Day Ceremony, we distributed a new Honors Day record of nearly $190,000 in local scholarship money.
A heartfelt thank you to all who supported the Class of 2025 today.
Our Seniors last day was today! While we know they learned a lot, we might have to bring them back next week for a refresher in Driver Education!
We do appreciate their humor and innocent fun!
Congratulations to Mrs Hoel's Creative Expressions class! Each member's work was chosen to be published this Fall in the Young Writers Unsolved-Criminally Good Sagas.
Top photo from left to right: Naya Kupferer, Bo Aslinger, Ella Maxfield, Ava Rauguth, Katelyn Cler.
Bottom photo: Erin Knofsky. Not pictured: Juli Fortado
Yesterday, we had our last preschool with these precious children. The students in our high school's Early Childhood Education class planned and executed the last five sessions and did an outstanding job!
Congrats to TCHS seniors, Ava Rauguth and Keller Beachy, for being recognized at the Illinois Principals Association Student Recognition Breakfast this morning. Ava and Keller were recognized for their accomplishments over the last 4 years at TCHS. We look forward to their continued success after high school. Thank you for the contributions that you've made and always know that we'll be rooting for you!
Thank you to the Tuscola Rotary and Mi Veracruz for a great lunch today while recognizing our Top 10 (eleven in this case) Seniors!
Pictured front row from L to R: Jocelyn Ford, Olivia Wallace, Allison Pettry, Naya Kupferer, and Carleigh Kleiss.
Pictured back row from L to R: Mr. Garrison, Andrew Bennett, Aiden Devlin, Brayden Taylor, Alex Lin, Nathan Klie, Mr. Bozarth, and Ed Carpenter.
The Tuscola HS annual Art winners have been announced!
Karsyn Lyons: Best in 3-D
Kali Gilpin: Best in Painting and 2-D
Braden Smith: Best of Show
On May 1st-3rd, TCHS Student Council attended the State Convention. These students went to workshops and to a formal dinner and dance. Izabella Taylor received the Pillar Award for school pride. They were kind, helpful and showed gratitude. Very proud of our students.
Congrats to the 2025 TCHS King and Queen:
Zack Rennels and Rylie Vanausdoll
Weather related update for Prom pictures:
Reminder to Tuscola residents:
Our Mock Car Crash Assembly is beginning soon. Please do not be alarmed by the sirens and first responders heading towards the high school.
Sarah Bush Lincoln Dental Bus performing cleanings today! Reach out to Nurse Bozarth (bozartha@cusd301.org) for a form to get your student(s) involved next year. It’s a free and easy way to meet the dental exam requirement for K, 2nd, 6th and 9th grade.
Public Notice to all Tuscola Residents:
Tomorrow, 5/2, Tuscola High School will be partnering with the Tuscola Fire Department and all local first responders for a Mock Prom Car Crash Assembly. We want to alert the community and our surrounding neighbors that at approximately 10:30am, numerous police, fire, and EMS personnel will be rushing to the scene of the mock crash. Please do not be alarmed by the amount of sirens tomorrow morning. Additionally, there will be an Air Life Helicopter flying into the scene. We want the community to have advanced warning that this is not a real emergency situation.
The southwest parking lot and Van Allen Street will be blocked off early tomorrow morning and should reopen by 1pm. Please use the front circle drive for student drop off. Additionally, all students should park in the North Parking lot tomorrow.
Congrats to Aiden Devlin and Olivia Wallace who attended the Central Illinois Conference meeting today with Coach Hornaday and Coach Bozarth. Olivia and Aiden were recognized as Tuscola's Senior Student-Athletes of the Year. Pictured with them are the recipients from Central A&M, Clinton, Meridian, Shelbyville, and Warrensburg-Latham.
Congrats to the April Students of the Month at North Ward!
A big thank you to the Tuscola Rotary for celebrating our current freshmen, sophomores, and juniors who have earned perfect 4.0 GPAs! The students enjoyed lunch yesterday with the Tuscola Rotarians at Joe's Pizza.
Juniors: Claire Leonard, Braxton Moody, Kalen Shinn, and Seth Stahler.
Sophomores: Harley Baker, Tessa Brucker, Hanna Carswell, Sawyer Cleland, Isabella Dueker, Joey Gibson, Christy Kerner, Lawson Kurtz, Katy Mills, Elizabeth Quinn, Zane Rennels, Addy Revell, Emma Spillman, Nicole Tschopp, Evan Vearil, Peppe Vitale, Ava Whitson, and Montse Xolo.
Freshmen: Ethan Chaplin, Korey Clodfelder, Lilla Cook, Braxton Cruzan, Margaret Ford, Abigail Haynes, Jillian Higar, Maybree Hinds, Jaes Mentock, Brix Smith, Hunter Smith, Stella Spencer, Grace Walker, Samantha Walker, Cale Wallace, and Bella Wishard.
