During her summer in Mongolia with the Experiment in International Living, Key West High School student Maryama Akhmetkaliyeva rode a camel in the Gobi Desert and did a home stay in a traditional yurt, or tent-like structure. Contributed photo

Keys kids conquer 16 countries

In the summer of 2019, three dozen students from the Florida Keys participated in the Experiment in International Living — international cross-cultural programs that spanned...
Principal Lisa Taylor and students

New building, exciting programs at PKS

Students, teachers and administrators at Plantation Key School entered through the doors to a new state-of-the-art facility at MM 90, bayside, in Tavernier last...
Keys schools get new fields and facilities - A couple of lawn chairs sitting on top of a grass covered field - Playground

Keys schools get new fields and facilities

The halls of learning in the Florida Keys got some much-needed improvements in 2019, which saw the opening of two brand new campuses at...
Susan Bazin has enjoyed her job at Key Largo School and its students for two decades. HOLLY HOUSER/Keys Weekly

Bazin banding students together

Music brings people together. That’s what local musician and Key Largo School (KLS) band director Susan Bazin believes. It’s the reason she has spent most of her life in the...

Brush your teeth!

February is National Children’s Dental Health Month, and Clarice Yentsch and Wally Smith want you to know about it. The pair have organized a...

Christina McPherson to take helm at Key West High School

Veteran educator and Key West High School graduate Christina McPherson will be the next Key West High School principal, Schools Superintendent Mark Porter announced...

Team Keys Weekly wins Financial Fitness Challenge

Being fiscally savvy is not necessarily one of the core high school courses, but maybe it should be. As part of the annual Financial...

McPherson readies for principal role at Key West High School

Christina McPherson hadn’t intended to teach when she was a student at Florida State University, and she certainly hadn’t planned on being principal of...

Local adventurer spends lifetime exploring Pitcairn Islands

In 1989, local adventurer and explorer Jack S. Grove accidentally discovered the shipwreck of the vessel Acadia at Ducie Atoll, an uninhabited islet in...

MHS junior named Sunshine Scholar

Marathon High School junior Katerina Nikiforova has been selected as Monroe County School District’s Sunshine State Scholar for the 2019-2020 school year. The program,...