Lawton Public Schools is making it easier for parents to keep tabs on children when they ride district school buses. LPS has begun advertising the Stopfinder app, which will allo...

New school clothes — check. School supplies purchased — check. Class schedule picked up — check. Fresh haircut — check. While mom or dad may have provided the new clothes and ...

Janice Carter has joined Lawton Public Schools as assistant superintendent of Educational and Student Services. She will provide leadership and oversight for all departments unde...

Lawton educators have re-discovered a document signed by Douglass Learning Center’s namesake, Frederick Douglass. What is now Douglass Learning Center at East Gore Boulevard and ...

Katie Moon wants to give her students a sample of the traditional arts and crafts Native Americans enjoyed. That meant the fifth graders got to play in clay and make ribbon shirt...

Artemis enjoyed going inside and outside at will while Oreo just wanted a better look at everything. Artemis and Oreo were two of the 19 sheep and three goats who moved into the ...

Lawton Public Schools Assistant Superintendent/Chief Financial Officer Lance Gibbs has been selected as a Distinguished Eagle Award recipient by the International Association of S...

If all the world is a stage, then several Lawton Public Schools students got their 15 minutes of fame during a theater class offered as part of Makerspace Summer Camp. The class ...

Students at Makerspace Summer Camp have got the whole world in their hands — thanks to some string and newspapers, glue, a balloon and paint. Students created their own globes as...

There were kids with rockets all over the place, but John Freese was still pretty secure about his position in the group. “I’m the rocket master,” he said by way of introduction,...

When students return to the Life Ready Center in August, they will notice an immediate change to at least one of the hallways — new carpeting. Lawton Public Schools crews have sp...

A new food services group will be providing meals to Lawton Public Schools students and staff when the new school year begins in August. Chartwells, a North Carolina-based food s...

Eighteen Lawton Public Schools sites have won 2026 Promising Practice designation from Character.org . The organization’s designation is intended to celebrate schools that bring ...

After two days of playing Indigenous games, some students at Lawton Public Schools’ Makerspace Camp had worked up an appetite. Dan Ninham, a member of the Oneida tribe in Minneso...

Students may think they have stepped back in time when they enter the halls of Lawton High School when school resumes in August. The time warp is thanks to a project instigated b...

Students in the culinary class at Makerspace Summer Camp learned that you don’t always need a conventional oven to cook your food. In fact, baking in a solar oven can be pretty fu...

Junior ROTC cadets from MacArthur High School, along with 129 cadets from 14 other schools, got a close-up view of Army life when they attended the JROTC Cadet Leadership Challeng...

The Lawton Public Schools Summer Feeding program is in full swing. Free summer lunches have been a part of the district’s programs for a long time, but in recent years district n...

Paintings by three students at the Life Ready Center will join the works of other local artists on display at a downtown Lawton business. Artists Mia Feliciano and Deann Pearson,...

Lawton Public Schools is ready to launch its popular summer feeding program, with most sites opening June 1. Free summer lunches have been a part of the district’s programs for a...