Lawton Public Schools

OSSAA DEAD WEEK: June 29 – July 6, 2025 The summertime OSSAA dead week period is June 29 – July 6, 2025 . During this time, student-athletes cannot participate in school athl...

The tweet of a whistle and the soft thwack of dozens of arrows hitting their mark are about the only sounds in the small gym at MacArthur High School during the mornings this sum...

What can you create with a stack of cardboard, dozens of hot glue sticks, scissors, several rolls of duct tape, cardboard cores, paper cups, plastic caps and a little imagination?...

Who doesn’t love a free lunch? Apparently most of the children who eat at the Lawton Public Schools Summer Feeding Program do, and their parents enjoy the convenience and cost sa...

If it is true that too many cooks spoil the broth, then the dozens of pizzas the culinary class at Makerspace made last week should not have been edible. But the old idiom is not...

A dog, a horse, a pig, a couple of snakes, several baby chicks and even a dinosaur attended summer camp at Cleveland Elementary School. The animals were not provided by a farm o...

Lupi Construction has begun work on a 2,640-square-foot pig barn at the Lawton Public Schools farm on West Lee. The new facility should be ready when school starts in August, ac...

She has flown helicopters and jumped out of airplanes and now Christina Leija has piloted a Cessna 182 Tango. Leija is a fifth grade teacher at Crosby Park Elementary School wit...

Students in Jacqueline Harmon’s ceramics classes at MacArthur High School have set out to create their own Flanders Field of poppies in the school’s Veterans Memorial area. The ...

The playground at Crosby Park Elementary School was recently in dire need of an air traffic controller. Planes were skittering across the basketball court, veering off course ac...

A community-wide cleanup project organized by Crosby Park Elementary School student Serenity Colbert-Whitelow almost didn’t happen again. The first cleanup was scheduled for Apr...

If it is true that all the world’s a stage, Angelo Chip will have the spotlight all to himself for a few minutes Friday morning during MacArthur High School’s graduation ceremony...

Lawton Public Schools is teaming up with the Lawton Fire Department to get the word out about careers with the fire service as firefighters spend part of their week talking to st...

Two new banners celebrating state championships will soon hang from the wall of the MacArthur High School gymnasium. The MHS JROTC program unveiled the banners celebrating its a...

Tyler Heffner doesn’t think he did anything special by running the half marathon in the Warrior Run on Fort Sill, but City of Lawton officials think differently. Heffner, 11, re...

Four Lawton Public Schools students will participate in not one but two graduations this month. First they will graduate Friday from Cameron University and then they will receive...

Dee Ann Patterson Lawton Public Schools What an Oklahoma Fun Day it was. There were stick horses to race, steers to rope, stories to read, animal pelts to examine, games to pla...

It is said that good things come to those who wait. Serenity Whitelow, 11, has been waiting almost two weeks to complete her dream of conducting a community cleanup in the Crosb...

Dee Ann Patterson Lawton Public Schools Odecee Carney Jr., seventh grader at Central Middle School, feels more prepared for high school thanks to a recent visit from several ...

Lawton elementary and early childhood students will have the opportunity to showcase their talents at the annual Lawton Public Schools’ Showcase this week. Ashley McCarter, Showc...