April 22, 2021
USD 456, in conjunction with the City of Melvern, is pleased to announce the receipt of a grant from the Walter S. and Evan C. Jones Testamentary Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Tru...
December 2, 2020
As the district is in the midst of our temporary remote learning, USD 456 would like to thank our students, parents, staff and other stakeholders for their efforts in making remot...
December 2, 2020
As this school year has progressed, USD 456 has certainly experienced change in various forms, mostly related to the COVID-19 pandemic. With those changes comes new perspective, n...
November 20, 2020
Trojan Family,
These past few weeks have been noticeably more difficult for our USD 456 students and staff than we have experienced all semester. At this time, the elementary b...
November 11, 2020
The elementary school was unable to host its annual Veteran's Day Program this year. Instead of having all of the area veterans come to the building we are doing it virtually her...
October 1, 2020
The elementary's annual fall book fair is going virtual ! Shopping can be done anytime October 1 - October 14. The book fair is a great way to get new books into the hands our th...
September 24, 2020
Today, USD 456 - Marais des Cygnes Valley was notified by the Osage County Health Department that a student at Marais des Cygnes Valley High School has tested positive for COVID-1...
September 10, 2020
At its September 9th, 2020 meeting, the Unified School District #456 Board of Education passed an update to the "Back-to-School Plan," including the addition of the district's Rem...
July 30, 2020
The time has come. The start of the school year is here!
As we have traversed down this path of uncertainty this past spring and summer, the time has come for Marais des Cygn...
July 28, 2020
USD 456 - Marais des Cygnes Valley is proud to announce their selection to be a part of the Apollo II Redesign Project through the Kansas Department of Education! Per KSDE: KSD...
June 11, 2020
UPDATE 7/29/2020: USD 456 has approved its "Back-to-School Plan. Please follow the link: https://5il.co/itp0 After a spring of cancelled schedules, redesign of learning mod...
May 1, 2020
To begin, the district would like to extend a huge THANK YOU to everyone that has been involved and affected by the change that we have experienced over the past month and a hal...
April 28, 2020
For many years, the Kansas Masonic Literacy Center has supported language learning in schools throughout Coffey, Lyon and Osage counties in the form of school district grants. Spe...
April 21, 2020
Unified School District 456 is proud to announce that Marais des Cygnes Valley High School has been named a U.S. News and World Report "Best High School" for 2020! According to U...
April 21, 2020
During the course of this school year, Technology Director Kim Dayhoff and certified staff identified a need to update their technology devices at Marais des Cygnes Valley Element...
April 20, 2020
Last week, USD 456 - Marais des Cygnes Valley was notified that the Kansas State Department of Education, in partnership with Character.org and Smoky Hill Education Service Center...
April 15, 2020
On Tuesday, April 7, 2020, the USD 456 Board of Education reviewed and approved the district's Continuous Learning Plan for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year, by a 7-0 vo...
March 29, 2020
Trojan Family, As you have probably heard, Osage County has been given a “stay-at-home” order by the Osage County Health Department and the State of Kansas will soon be followin...
March 23, 2020
Trojan Family, Today, Marais des Cygnes Valley teachers met to discuss the Continuous Learning Plan guidance from the Kansas Department of Education and brainstorm the new learni...
March 19, 2020
Trojan Family,
Today, the Kansas State Department of Education released its guidance from the Continuous Learning Task Force. In it, the guidance states that its primary goal w...