🌟 Meet our new staff: AVERY BAUGHMAN! 🌟
We are so excited to welcome Avery Baughman to the Greene County Elementary family! Avery will be joining us as a 1st Grade Teacher and is ready for an amazing year of learning, growing, and making memories with her students!
📍 Hometown: Omaha, Nebraska
🎓 Education: Iowa State University
❤️ Why Education? Avery chose education because she wants to make the same positive impact on her students that some of her own teachers made on her life.
Avery is especially excited to watch her students grow and learn new skills throughout the year!
And now for some fun facts about Avery!
🐶 She has a long-haired wiener dog named Pickle!
🦀 Favorite Food: Crab Rangoon
💃 Favorite Show: Dancing with the Stars
📖 Favorite Hobbies: Reading & crafts
🏈 Favorite Team: Seattle Seahawks
💍 Summer Highlight: Avery got married this summer!
Every classroom needs a must-have, and Avery's is her pink tool cart!
Avery wants our families to know: "I am so excited for this school year to start!" And we are just as excited to have her here!
Welcome to the RAM family, Avery! We are so happy you're here!
We are so excited to welcome Rachel Meier to the Greene County Elementary family! ❤️🖤 Rachel will be joining us as a Kindergarten Teacher and is ready to make this school year extra special for her very first class of kindergarteners!
📍 Hometown: Ankeny, Iowa — and she recently made the move to Jefferson!
🎓 Education: Iowa State University — Elementary Education
🌅 Fun Fact: Rachel loves watching the sunset!
Rachel was inspired to become an educator by her family full of educators! She is excited to be part of students' lives and help them learn, grow, and discover the joy of learning. Her favorite part about this school year? Having her very first class of kindergarteners!
A few of Rachel's favorites:
🌮 Favorite Food: Tacos
👨👩👧👦 Favorite Hobby: Spending time with friends and family
🌪️ Favorite Sports Team: Iowa State
This summer, Rachel enjoyed spending lots of time with friends and family. And her classroom must-have? ☕ Coffee!
Rachel wants our families to know: "I am so excited to be a part of the Jefferson community and the Greene County Community School District!"
Welcome to the RAM family, Rachel! We can't wait to see all the wonderful memories you create with your first class of kindergarteners!
Parents: if you are able, please attend with your child as they will be taking home TEN days worth of breakfast, lunch and milk! What a wonderful program that we can provide to our community!
GCCSD is busy preparing for the 2026-2027 school year!
Schedules and Homeroom assignments will be available for families to view through Infinite Campus beginning Monday, August 10th.
The first day of school for grades K-12 is Monday, August 24th.
PK4 will begin August 26th.
PK3 will begin August 27th.
If you have not completed online registration, our annual update of information, please do so through your parent portal. This is required for all returning families. Visit our website for registration information, including school supply lists. https://www.gccsd.k12.ia.us/page/school-enrollment-registration-resources
Back-to-School Checklist
Complete Online Registration through your Infinite Campus Parent Portal.
Pay registration fees and add funds to your student's lunch account.
Meal Benefit Information: Notification letters for families who are direct certified for Free or Reduced Lunch should be received the week of July 20th - keep an eye out in the mail! If you have not already been approved for free/reduced meals through direct certification and feel you may qualify, please fill out the meal benefits application on your parent portal. Paper applications can also be found at all building offices.
For meal benefit questions contact Heather Hadley hadleyh@greenecountycsd.net
For scheduling questions please contact:
Elementary: hinotea@greenecountycsd.net
Middle School: osbornec@greenecountycsd.net
High School: jorgensens@greenecountycsd.net
If you cannot remember your username/password and have not been successful with the "forgot username/password" function, contact gannone@greenecountycsd.net
As a reminder, we will be dismissing three hours early on the last day of school, Friday, May 29th!!
Elementary: 12:10 pm
Middle: 12:30 pm
High: 12:23 pm
Have a great summer break!!
As a reminder, we will be dismissing three hours early on the last day of school, Friday, May 29th!!
Elementary: 12:10 pm
Middle: 12:30 pm
High: 1:23 pm
Have a great summer break!!
Thank you to our amazing parents for the thoughtful floats and ice cream sundae treats for our staff yesterday! Your kindness and generosity meant so much to all of us.
We truly loved the desserts and enjoyed taking a moment together to celebrate and feel appreciated. This brightened our day and reminded us how fortunate we are to be part of such a supportive school community.
Thank you again for thinking of us and for all you do to support our staff and students throughout the year!
With only a couple of school days left, please take a few minutes to review and complete! Have a great Summer!
Embark on a journey to the past of Jurassic proportions with "Unearth a Story", the Jefferson Public Library 2026 Youth Summer Reading Shin-Dig!
"Shin-dig"? Yes, you read that right. They're changing things up this year. Kids and teens who sign up receive a "field journal" and a sticker...then continue to receive small prizes throughout the summer for every 140 minutes that they log! The more you read, the closer you get to their grand prize drawings.
Even better, summer programs are now open to the public! Enjoy "excavation digs", visits from Blank Park Zoo and the Science Center of Iowa, after-hours movie nights, and more planned this summer.
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Elementary and middle school students lined the hallways to cheer on the seniors as they made their way through the buildings one last time as Greene County students.
Watch the recorded video here:
https://youtu.be/SwrPoh8Di2c
Congratulations to the Class of 2026!
We truly appreciate the continued support from local businesses that care so much about our students, staff, and community. Partnerships like these help make special experiences possible for our kids, and we are incredibly grateful for their generosity and willingness to give back.
In addition to today, Midwest Prime has also generously donated all of the meat for the teachers’ meal next Friday. Their kindness and support for Greene County schools does not go unnoticed.
Thank you again to Midwest Prime for supporting Greene County students and schools!
