✊🏿 Last year, Peoria Public Schools was selected as one of only 4% of school districts in the U.S. to offer AP African American Studies in all three high schools!✊🏿
👩🏿🦱 Woodruff's Natural Hair Braiding program requires 300 hands-on internship hours for completion! 👩🏿🦱
Bob Robinson is a 1989 Richwoods High School graduate!
🍴The 6th Warrior Way Café was a remarkable success! The meal was delicious!🍴
🎤Pryor started doing stand-up comedy during talent shows in middle school!🎤
👮🏾 Happy National School Resource Officer Appreciation Day!📣 Give your school's resource officer a shoutout in the comments!
Congratulations to the 11 Woodruff Career and Technical Center students who completed their CNA certification last December! All students have been offered jobs in various facilities in the Peoria area!
✊🏿Manual graduate Mark Clark joined Martin Luther King Jr. on his March on Washington on August 28, 1963!✊🏿
👨🏾🍳The 6th opening of the Warrior Way Cafe is this Thursday, February 15th! Place your order by emailing warriorwaycafe@psd150.org by noon tomorrow!👩🏼🍳
💄Annie Malone founded Poro College in St. Louis, a cosmetology school for black women! 💄
Students at Valeska Hinton ECEC are celebrating Black History Month by spotlighting some remarkable Black American figures with hallway art!
Congratulations to the 5th-8th graders who competed in math competitions at Bradley and ICC this past weekend! Here are some pictures of the Reservoir Gifted Academy team!
⭐️Mayor Ali's first elected position was freshman class president at Manual! ⭐
January 10th was the Chinese Lunar New Year and Jamieson School celebrated this past Friday!
🏈In 1986, Peoria High alum, Darryl Ashmore was named the Peoria Journal Star's Football Player of the Year!🏈
The 2024 PFT/D150 Chess Championship is on Feb 17, 2024, and hosted by Lincoln K-8! This is the last tournament of the year, and PPS enrollment is required. This event is sponsored by the Greater Peoria Chess Foundation, and renewed memberships will be given to all participants! To register, visit https://www.pftd150chess.com
Congratulations to the six 6th-8th grade PPS scholars who competed at the 2024 Mardi Gras Speech and Debate competition in Santa Ana, California!
🏀On February 6, 2020, the corner of Madison Park Terrace and Proctor Street in Peoria, where Nathan grew up, was named "Howard Nathan Jr. Court!" 🏀
Angel H. at Liberty Leadership was the first to receive a tablet for completing the Superintendent Challenge! Find out how your K-8 student can earn a Superintendent prize at https://www.peoriapublicschools.org/page/superintendents-challenge
Happy National School Counseling Week! 📢Give your school counselor a shoutout in the comments! 📢
