HMS District
Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn School District
Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn Community Schools
- Leader in strategic planning and Deming principles of continuous improvement
- Low class sizes in K-4
- Parents as Teachers program for parents of newborns – five year olds
- Effective reading programs to meet a wide range of learning needs: reading recovery, reading renaissance, accelerated reader, title 1
- K-8 after-school tutoring program
- ACT tutoring program
- Tradition of excellence in fine arts (band, chorus, art, drama, speech, debate)
- Tradition of successful athletic programs with frequent state qualifiers
- Innovative Vocational programs including building a house each year
- Numerous area and state recognition for teachers, coaches and administrators including selection of the HMS Board of Directors as the Top Board in Iowa for 1998
