SCHOOL NEWS
NISD conducts hearing on targeted improvement
Nocona Independent School District Board of Trustees conducted a public hearing to discuss its accountability rating and targeted improvement plan during a called session this past week.
During a regular meeting at 6 p.m. after the called session at 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 16, the board reviewed an energy retrofit project and bids for the transportation yard renovation.
In the called session trustees reviewed the accountability rating for Nocona Elementary, discussed the effective schools framework self-assessment and the administrations’s plan for improvement. Public input also was solicited.
Elementary Principal Wendi Womack went over the plan that will address the domains where the school received a D. Overall, the campus received a C rating with a scaled score of 71 across three domains. Read the full story on this past week’s meeting in your mid-week Bowie News.
Abigail Hill, Nocona High School valedictorian, is the 2026 UIL feature writing state champion. Nocona faculty have been looking through school records and UIL records to see when Nocona last had someone won state. UIL record archives only date back to 1983 and they didn’t see anyone listed as winning a gold medal in Academic UIL. According to Nocona records, she is the first UIL Academic Champion since 1973. (Courtesy photo)
Bowie Elementary kindergarten students entertained the huge audience that attended the graduation ceremonies at the high school gym on May 21. Each kindergarten class performed a song for the guests. They also were invited to dress as their future career choice such as a doctor or a police officer.
Each class entertained with a song.
By Andy Newberry, MSU Texas
Midwestern State University junior Rykir Evans is not only building his skills during a NASA internship—he’s creating memories that will last a lifetime.
Evans has been a remote student at MSU Texas this semester while completing the internship. During that time, he had the opportunity to meet American naval aviator and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, as well as NASA Chief Flight Director Gene Kranz.
“It definitely has been an amazing experience thus far, and meeting all of the super inspirational figures in flesh and blood was definitely surreal,” Evans said.
Read the full story in Thursday’s Bowie News.
(Top photo) Rykir Evans had a chance meeting with Reid Wiseman NASA astronaut and commander of the Artemis II lunar fly-by mission. He also met famed NASA chief flight director Gene Kranz, who directed the first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11.
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