Central Elementary School

We want to give a special shout out to Roberta Marsh who is retiring today! Thank you for your years of service. We wish you the best in your retirement.

Congratulations to our 5th graders, moving on to the middle school next year. We will miss you! Thanks for a great year Wildcats! Have a great summer.

Congratulations to all these readers! Today our 4th and 5th graders who read at least 4 Mark Twain Nominees attended a neon bright party in the library. Yesterday we had 7 students who read all 12 books attend a field trip to Neighborhood Reads. Congratulations to these kiddos!

Congratulations Central Wildcats! We were awarded the PBIS Tier 1 Award of Excellence. This award signifies our school’s implementation of PBIS with high quality at the Universal (Tier 1) Level. Great job Team!

We have the best SLP team working with our students every day. We appreciate everything you do!

Little lunch break and we are back at it with the Field Day Fun!

Field Day 2026 has just begun! Snow cones, smiles and sunshine all day!

Girls on the Run raised $520 for Sleep in Heavenly Peace! They were able to hand over the donation at their end of season celebration today.

We are so proud of our Girls on the Run group! They finished their big run in STL yesterday. Great job girls!

Lots of fun things happening in preschool lately. Once worn resale shop got an ice cream for the preschoolers, We released butterflies 🦋 and had sensory day. We love these smiles!

Happy School Nurse Day to two of the best! Help us thank them!

Girls on the Run is doing their community impact project supporting Sleep in Heavenly Peace.

Our Union Elementary Choir group performed at the Cardinals game last night. We couldn't be more proud! Great job!

This entire week we are celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week. Each of our buildings will be doing a wide variety of acknowledgements for our amazing teachers to show appreciation for all that they do each and every day.

Thank you to all our teachers for everything they do for all our students.

We are so #Uproud!

It's Teacher Appreciation Week this week! Our educators go above and beyond every single day to ensure our students get a great education. Let's help them feel a little extra love!

Here are some of our staff favorites as well, listed in order from pre-school through 5th grade:
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Today we celebrate our amazing food service team members who help to provide our students and staff both healthy and delicious meals on the daily.

Thank you for all you do!

#Uproud

We appreciate these ladies for all the work they do every day in our cafeteria! It takes a lot of work to feed over 600 individuals every day- thank you for your dedication!

Today is Principal Appreciation Day!

Thank you to our awesome building principals who go above and beyond each and every day to ensure our schools are the best they can possibly be for both our students and staff.

Thank you for all that you do!

The District Employee Recogition Banquet was so fun that we just can't stop with all these great photos!

This is a night to honor the incredible work of educators and all the individuals it takes to run a smooth school year. We recognized our building teacher and classified staff of the year, individuals with years of service and candidates honored with "Going the Extra Mile", plus we even had some individuals win the Best Dressed! Shout out to all of our Central Staff:

Building Teacher of the Year: Stacy Titter
Classified Staff of the Year: Sherri Coughlin
15 Years of Service: Tracy Wall
20 Years of Service: Liz Brueggemann, Claire Heaton, Sam Missey
25 Years of Service: Ellen Burton, Jessica Meyer, Stacy Titter
Going the Extra Mile: Cathy Nowak
Best Dressed: Katie Hoffmann and Murray Schwengels

Help us say thank you to our fearless leader today, Mrs. Heaton! She goes above and beyond every day for our students and staff. We couldn't do it without her.