Lawton Public Schools

Carlos Irizarry’s wife isn’t laughing any more. A couple of years ago Irizarry told his wife, Jennifer, that he wanted to be Lawton Public Schools Teacher of the Year. “She kin...

ILayah Parker, 10, is a little nervous about playing her recorder at Carnegie Hall’s Link Up event. “I just have to know what I’m doing with my fingers and the notes,” the Almor ...

Black History Month is next month this years theme is African Americans and Labor! See the calendar below to plan and schedule your attendance! We hope you'll join us for the upco...

Students took a deep dive into solving the problems of the ocean on Tuesday during the Lawton Public Schools/Redlegs Junior Robotics LEGO League Challenge. Students combined res...

Students in Mona Bevington’s introduction to emergency medicine class, who have been studying airway management, got a hands-on lesson in the importance of properly inflated lung...

Students dressed in their Sunday best wandered the halls of MacArthur High School (MHS) on Friday while others congregated in small groups discussing weighty world matters. The ...

Malinda Perez did not expect success to come so quickly. Perez is speech and stage production teacher at MacArthur High School and is preparing for the school to host the first ...

They came running out of the woods yelling, “Attack! Attack! Attack!” and were greeted with shouts of “Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!” All the ruckus was the first of several planned j...

Holly Phillips’ Lawton Public Schools Foundation grant was funded just in time this year. Phillips, a third grade teacher at Eisenhower Elementary School, had already planned a ...

Pour the contents of 175 cans of soups of various flavors into 15 slow cookers and heat through. At the end of four hours, you have a meal fit for a roomful of 4-year-olds. Oh, ...

Joshua Rendon Jr. got the surprise of his life on Friday morning during a Tacky Turkey Day judging contest at Pat Henry Elementary School. Rendon, a fifth grader, was called to ...

Central Middle School (CMS) students will reap the rewards of their labors when they assemble 50 Thanksgiving baskets this week. Students competed to see which hall in the schoo...

The city kids spent a day down on the farm last week – the Lawton Public Schools farm, that is — learning where their food comes from, how to brand a cow and how to “churn” butte...

Doris Biegler had a problem. She needed space to store her inflatable NASA capsule, various robot parts, a few plastic volcanoes, 3-D printers, PVC pipe and numerous plastic bins...

Sophomore Sara Cheesman has finally found her voice and that voice has led her to start an after-school Bible study club at MacArthur High School (MHS) this year. The club had i...

The thwack-thwack-thwack of dozens of plastic cups being stacked and unstacked resonated throughout the Edison Elementary School gymnasium this week as students tried to break a ...

Five members of the Eisenhower Middle School (EMS) Academic Team will compete in the Tournament of Champions in April after placing at the Moore Invitational Scholastic Challenge...

The LPS/Rooms App has undergone a major update! It features several key improvements and enhancements that are designed to provide a more seamless and user-friendly experience. ...

Welding students in Kelly New’s class at Lawton High School (LHS) hope to impress attendees at Lawton Farmers Market on Saturday with their creativity and welding skills. The fi...

They joined for various reasons: one just wanted to hang out with friends, one wanted to hone leadership skills and one wanted to be a better person. All of them found what they w...