Our News

Parents, Guardians, & School Employees:

As we begin working on our 2024-25 school year calendar, we have been approached by individuals to consider making possible changes to our traditional school calendar. The AR Department of Education has approved four (4) different calendar types for schools to consider. The district has created a community survey that addresses the four calendar types. Your input will provide valuable feedback that will be considered as we move forward. This survey instrument will close at 3:00 PM on Friday, January 26th. Click on the following link to access the survey. https://forms.gle/viPM2ymdWsC3BkhGA

Thank you.

Due to extremely dangerous road conditions across Northwest Arkansas, the West Fork School District will not hold classes on Wednesday, January 17th. This is the 4th snow day that has been taken for students and must be made up.

Stay warm and be safe.

John Karnes, Superintendent

Due to treacherous road conditions across Northwest Arkansas, the West Fork School District will not hold classes on Tuesday, January 16th.

Stay warm and be safe.

John Karnes, Superintendent

Parents & Guardians:

The 7th & 8th grade boys’ and girls’ basketball games scheduled for tonight in Lavaca are canceled.

John Karnes, Superintendent

Good afternoon! I hope everyone is staying safe and warm on this frigid Friday. We definitely made the right call by canceling school today. Road conditions would have been extremely dangerous this morning trying to get our students and staff to school. As I’ve stated before, I will always try to err on the side of safety when faced with these tough decisions. Predicting the weather is not a perfect science, so all we can do is our best and stay informed. As we move into the weekend and next week, it looks as though we’ll have more tough decisions to make by dealing with more frigid weather moving into the area and possible school cancellations. Don’t forget that our school calendar has the District closed with no classes on Monday in observance of Martin Luther King Day, which is probably great timing with the snowfall being predicted for Sunday and Monday. I will do my best to keep you informed as decisions are being made.

Here are a few more items of interest.

I’m sure by now that everyone has figured out that our games scheduled to be played in Flippin tonight have been postponed. We will let you know when a make-up date is scheduled.

The Pee Wee basketball games scheduled to be played in West Fork tomorrow have been postponed and will be rescheduled. As soon as a new date is decided, we will get that information out to everyone.

Finally, this year’s approved school calendar has all snow days missed being added on to the end of the school year. So currently, if no more school is missed, our student’s last day would be Wednesday, May 29th and our teacher’s last day would be Thursday, May 30th. Any variations from this would take approval from the Arkansas Department of Education and school employees.

I hope you have a great weekend and stay safe and warm.

John Karnes, Superintendent

West Fork Tiger Fans:

Due to the inclement weather that we’re experiencing in Northwest Arkansas today, tonight’s basketball games versus Bergman are being moved to tomorrow, Wednesday, January 10th. The tipoff for the junior high girls’ game will be 4:00. The junior high boys’, senior high girls, and finally, the senior high boys’ games will follow. We hope you’ll come out and support our teams.

Good morning. This is John Karnes, Superintendent of Schools. I’ve been watching the weather and driving the roads this morning and we have another tough call with the timing of the snow that we have moving in. Temperatures are steadily dropping and the weatherman just talked about having near white-out conditions and wind chills in the teens and the radar shows that it will snow all morning. For these reasons, I’m going to err on the side of safety and call school off for the day. Please be safe if you must get out.

Goodbye

Parents, Guardians, & Community:
You are invited to attend a brief meeting to go over the District’s 2024 Facilities Master Plan and discuss future projects that are in the current plan. We look forward to receiving your input as we plan for the future. The meeting will start at 5:00 on Monday, January 8th in the Boardroom of the District’s Administration Office.

Thank you,

John Karnes, Superintendent

Parents & Guardians:

Classes for students will not be in session on Monday, October 9; instead, this will be a teacher in-service day. Classes for students will resume on Tuesday, October 10th.