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Middle school students from Walter Johnson Middle School joined peers from across North Carolina on Thursday, March 5, 2026, to participate in Conexiones para la Acción Diplomática (CAD), a Spanish-language global diplomacy simulation hosted by Participate Learning at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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The North Carolina School Public Relations Association (NCSPRA) has honored Burke County Public Schools for excellence in communications. BCPS earned a total of 10 Blue Ribbon Awards for outstanding and effective communication. NCSPRA presented the awards during a special ceremony held at the Guilford County Schools Community Education Center in Greensboro, NC, on March 6, 2026.
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Congratulations to our middle and high school regional science fair winners! Students from across the district earned top honors in multiple categories in the Regional Science Fair held on Saturday, Feb. 21, at Watauga High School in Boone. The students will advance to the state competition at NC State University in Raleigh on March 21.
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Burke County Public Schools Archery Programs were well represented last weekend at the National Archery in the Schools Program NC State Bullseye Tournament in Winston-Salem as 16 schools at the elementary, middle and high school levels competed in team and individual challenges. East Burke High School took first place overall in high school team competition. In individual competitions, first place champs were East Burke High School’s Luke D. for high school boys and Icard Elementary School’s Bailey B. for elementary school girls. The next step for many of our top archers is Nationals later this spring in Kentucky.
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The assignment: create a poster showing what a healthy heart looks like. These three Burke County Public Schools fourth graders didn’t just understand the assignment, they nailed it, earning top honors in the annual American Heart Association and UNC Health Blue Ridge Healthy HeART Art Contest:
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An eighth-grade student from East Burke Middle School has been named the Middle Division winner in the North Carolina Art Education Association's Youth Art Month Flag Design contest,
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This is known as a Dual Language 50/50 program; students learn from the Spanish teacher for half of the day and then switch classes and go to the English teacher for the other half of the day.
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