Stanley Education
 

The City of Stanley is home to a number of private/parochial schools and has a fine public school system that serves the City of Stanley, the Village of Boyd and the surrounding area.

Faith Christian Academy offers education for grades K-12. This individual child based system is operated under the auspices of the Faith Evangelical Free Church.

The Stanley-Boyd School District has an enrollment of around 1,000 students. Elementary schools are operated in both the Stanley and Boyd communities. All students grades 5-8 attend the middle school in Stanley.

Excellent school buildings house the school district's elementary and middle schools. Small classes in K-3 are provided by the districts participation in the SAGE program. Middle school students can participate in after-school sports programs, an FFA chapter, and a LEO club.

The Stanley-Boyd High School with an enrollment of around 350 students is large enough to offer a full array of courses for those students who are preparing for a post-secondary education. The vast majority of Stanley-Boyd graduates attend a vocational school or a college/university following high school graduation. In the year 1999-2000 a major remodeling and several new additions modernized the Stanley-Boyd High School Building. Included were new band and choral rooms, a new media center, a new computer lab, a distance learning center, TV production studio, and some new classrooms. Vacated program areas were remodeled to accommodate new or expanded existing programs.

An array of extra curricular activities is offered by the Stanley-Boyd Schools and provides an opportunity to those students who wish to take advantage of a well-rounded education. The Stanley-Boyd High School chorus and band are well known for their award winning performances at district and state competitions. Over the years, the band has also successfully participated in national competitions. A forensics program provides an opportunity for those students interested in advancing their ability in public speaking. Pre-vocational course offerings provide hands on experience for some trades. Sports programs offer the largest opportunity for students to participate in extra curricular activities. Football, girls volleyball, boys and girls cross-country, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls golf, wrestling, baseball and softball are available for students participation. A local chapter of the Future Farmers of America (FFA) offers a variety of programs for interested students. Annually Stanley-Boyd High School students provide a day of community service during which they rake lawns, cut brush, clean highways of litter, paint, fix-up and landscaping and other beautification projects.

For more information about the Stanley-Boyd school, visit www.stanleyboyd.k12.wi.us.

           September 2010 news from the Stanley Republican:  Stanley-Boyd shined when they were listed as 39th in ranking against 452 other high schools in the State of Wisconsin when the ACT scores from the Class of 2010 were calculated.  Other placements in the region were Owen-Withee 71, Thorp 261 and Cadott 290.

           August 2010 news from the Stanley Republican:  $300,000 in improvements and purchases were completed during the summer, including Elementary Gym bleachers being placed on a motorized system; 13 elementary classrooms received new carpeting; three small storage rooms were turned into a new Kindergarten classroom; the high school Biology Lab was totally redone; some new technologies were added to math and other classrooms -- short throw projectors and smart boards.

           November  2009 news from the Stanley Republican:  (see middle photo to the right)  The students of Jordan Donnerbauer's Environmental Science Class at Stanley-Boyd High School have reason to be proud of themselves, as they have manufactured a new fuel that two S-B school buses have been running on for the past three weeks.  "There seems to be no change in the operation of the buses (compared to regular diesel," noted S-B Superintendent Jim Jones, adding "It's a great learning experience for them, and from an educational factor, it's a 'wow'!"  Donnerbaurer said that local restaurant provided used cooking oil, plus oil is being used from pressings of three acres of canola and camilina seeds that the school planted and harvested.  Four "young scientists" identified as participating in the process of preparing the bio-diesel were Aaron Kiraly, Josh Langiewicz, Steven Patten and Caleb Tiry.


 

New equipment for the Agricultural Education Center to convert some of its crops to fuel to power some of the school buses, starting in 2009.



Reit's Garden Center donated soil supplements and plants to enhance the Yellowstone Trail marker at Franklin Street (Hwy H) and 1st Avenue and Stanley-Boyd high school students did the labor for community service day in 2008-2010.