Parsons District Schools

“I love it,” a Garfield girl said as she spun around in a new, fuzzy, pink, winter coat. Two other girls walked by her, smiling as they talked about their new matching winter coa...

Parsons USD 503 has established the Viking Food Bank for students and their families and is welcoming donations. Food access for the poor, elderly, disabled and children is being...

From an early age, Nate Smith had an interest in business and finance — though he wasn’t quite sure where that interest might lead. He dreamed of one day owning a business of his ...

Is graffiti an art or a crime? Students in Jennifer Ramirez’s English class recently got to debate that question as they entered a unit on argumentative writing. They have read mu...

Thanks to the efforts of one Parsons High School junior, members of the C.A.M.P. Club and other students had the opportunity to learn more about acclaimed lawyer and social justic...

Lori English has worked as a bus monitor for only one month, but says she enjoys being around little kids again. "All mine are grown up" she said. Outside of work, she enjoys d...

Rick Giefer is the Director of Transportation for Parsons USD 503 and the one responsible for keeping the school buses rolling daily for routes and all activities. Giefer stepped...

Neil Neil Shelley has been a bus driver for the district for one year. When not driving bus he is a full-time IT person working remotely for a manufacturing company "back home" in...

Our bus drivers and monitors are an essential part of many students’ education, ensuring they get to and from school safely, but their role goes deeper than that. Drivers and mo...

Parsons High School drafting students met with city of Parsons officials to update them on where things stand and discuss next steps in Phase I of the construction of the Five Pat...

Our bus drivers and monitors are an essential part of many students’ education, ensuring they get to and from school safely, but their role goes much deeper. Drivers and monitors ...

National School Bus Safety Week is Oct. 20-24, and USD 503 wants to help insure the safety of its bus drivers, monitors, and students, as well as motorists sharing the roadways wi...

Our bus drivers and monitors are an essential part of many students’ education, ensuring they get to and from school safely. Drivers and monitors are the first people in the distr...

Our bus drivers and monitors are an essential part of many students’ education, ensuring they get to and from school safely, but their roles extend deeper. Drivers and monitors a...

Our bus drivers and monitors are an essential part of many students’ education, ensuring they get to and from school safely, but their roles go much deeper. Drivers and monitors a...

At Monday's regular meeting of the USD 503 Board of Education, the instructional coach for Lincoln shared the good news that the percentage of students entering Lincoln “kinderga...

Enrollment ebbs and flows year-to-year, and while figures are still very fluid with students coming and going almost daily, this year Parsons USD 503 is seeing a decline in enrol...

In what may be a first-of-its-kind partnership, Magnum Systems is working with Parsons High School (PHS) to give drafting students a direct look at how engineers collaborate to d...

From a young age, Dana Vietti envisioned herself in medicine. Like many children, her dreams shifted with time — first to marine biology, then to teaching, and eventually to glob...

After years of deferring maintenance on some high cost projects to manage a slew of others, Parsons USD 503 is faced with no longer being able to delay repairing/replacing roofs....