Lawton Public Schools

Haylee Dingman will finally be able to tell her children that she is a high school graduate. Dingman is one of about 120 local persons taking advantage of a new state law allowin...

Whenever new Lawton Public Schools Superintendent Neal Weaver sits down to eat a meal at home, he will be eating off a piece of LPS history. Students in John Cullison’s construct...

Lawton Public Schools Superintendent Kevin Hime has been named a 2026 OASA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. Hime, who has been LPS superintendent since 2019, is one of three...

Students at MacArthur Middle School didn’t let a little cold and wind keep them from testing their rockets. They were a little winded after chasing down those rockets when they l...

First meetings can sometimes be uncomfortable, but finding out that you have something in common can ease the awkwardness. Just ask participants in the Edison Elementary-Lawton Hi...

For the fifth consecutive year, MacArthur High School’s Junior ROTC Highlander Battalion is ending the school year as the Army Junior ROTC state champion in the Oklahoma Drill and...

The Eisenhower Middle School Viking Band received two Superior Sweepstakes trophies for the Beginning and Combined Bands at the Heartland Music Festival on May 2 in Guthrie. The ...

All the events you need to celebrate Oklahoma’s heritage — horses and sheep and goats and sack races and horseshoe games — were available at Learning Tree Academy’s Oklahoma Day i...

Some students at Central Middle School had the sweetest of assignments in their woodworking class. Calvin Garcia tasked his first-year woodworking students with making a working ...

Lawton Public Schools Chief Financial Officer Lance Gibbs has been named School Business Official of the Year by the Oklahoma Association of School Business Officials (OKASBO). ...

The MacArthur High School Girls Varsity Soccer team is hosting Classen SAS for their first round playoff game at “The Hill” on Monday, May 4 at 7 pm. LPS FAN GUIDE | TICKETS F...

The gentlemen of Lawton High School have their own club and now the ladies have theirs. The Ladies of Lawton High was formed the second semester after a student library intern an...

Pointed tip or box end? That was the question facing boat designers at the Lawton Public Schools cardboard boat race at Rinehart Fitness Center on Fort Sill. Participants were el...

Riding scooters may look like a lot of fun, but trust these MacArthur Middle School students: it’s hard work. But it’s great for your legs. Not to mention your peace of mind. Th...

The beginning is messy, but the result is a unique, colorful work of art. And, you get to show off what you know about another country. The fifth-grade students of Whittier Elem...

A high school art student has found her calling in an elementary school art club. Mia Walker, a MacArthur High School junior who attends Scott Smith’s art class at Life Ready Cen...

Doug Brown, Lawton Public Schools assistant superintendent of educational services, has been named District 13 Assistant Superintendent/Central Office Administrator of the Year. ...

A collaboration between Whittier Elementary fifth graders and art students at Lawton High and the Life Ready Center yielded results that could only be described as unique. Or wei...

The Purple Star ceremony at Freedom Elementary School on April 10 was especially poignant for staff member Liz Ramirez. It was Ramirez’s last day at the school because four days l...

Peace can be tricky. In a perfect world, the U.S. and Iran would sign a peace agreement. So would the Israelis and Palestinians. Students at Eisenhower High tried, but Iran didn...