There are various substitute positions open in DCPS. Apply today!
As a reminder, substitute teachers must have completed 60 college credits.
We are hiring permanent district substitutes for the 25-26 school year!
Email hr@daviess.kyschools.us with any questions.
You can use the link below to apply today:
https://daviess.schoolspring.com/?jobid=5103337
Registration is now open for the Empowering Schools Together event. This event has previously occurred under the title Mental Health Summit.
Districts can register for the event using the link below. We can't wait to work together for kids on August 5th at the Owensboro Convention Center.
Registration: https://forms.gle/n46jecHc2SnxE3naA
We are currently hiring after-school aides in all of our elementary school buildings.
Email hr@daviess.kyschools.us if you have any questions.
You can use the link below to apply today:
https://daviess.schoolspring.com/?jobid=5079065
DCPS Summer Feeding Menu for June 2025
Come test drive a school bus with the DCPS Transportation Department on June 7 at 4801 Frederica Street.
From 10AM-2PM, the community is invited to:
-Test drive a school bus
-Talk with the Transportation Department about benefits, hours, schedules, and more
-Learn more about joining the Transportation Department
We are hiring permanent district substitutes for the 25-26 school year!
Email hr@daviess.kyschools.us with any questions.
You can use the link below to apply today:
https://daviess.schoolspring.com/?jobid=5103337
The DCPS Central Office and support offices will be closed on Monday, May 26, in honor of Memorial Day.
Be sure to join the DCPS Food Service Department for their Summer Feeding Kickoff on Friday, May 23, from 10 AM - 12 PM at the DCHS Football Field. Free meals for anyone under the age of 18.
There will be a variety of booths with free food vendors, games, prizes and more!
Scenes from Whitesville Elementary School Colorblast 2025
Congratulations to DCHS Senior, Matthew Dunlay, for being named a National Merit Scholarship Winner!
Matthew was among a select group of high school students nationwide to advance as a Finalist in the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program. The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) identifies academically talented U.S. high school students through their Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®) scores. In its 70th year, 2,500 students were chosen for the $2,500 scholarship and named winners from the 15,00 finalists.
Matthew plans to attend Yale University on scholarship in the fall, focusing his studies on Statistics and Data Science while participating in the Yale Air Force ROTC.
Over 140 volunteers from the DCHS football, dance, and cheer teams participated in Operation Community Cleanup put on by the Issac Sterett Adventure Foundation yesterday! It was a sea of yellow shirts down New Hartford Road, bringing in over 50 bags of trash.
This week, we are celebrating all of our office staff and secretaries! Thank you for all you as you work Together for Kids. Our buildings wouldn't be the same without your smiling faces.
All school libraries are transitioning to a new district-wide system for next year. To prepare, all library books need to be returned by April 25th. Turning in books by this date helps all schools ensure a smooth transition for the next school year!
Two students from Daviess County Public Schools have been accepted to the 2025 Governor’s School for Entrepreneurs.
According to the Governor’s School for Entrepreneurs website, GSE identifies and enables Kentucky high school students to become our Commonwealth’s next generation of entrepreneurs. Through a three-week residential experience at Northern Kentucky University, GSE participants are equipped with the tools and skills to create and build their own businesses, are introduced to Kentucky's most successful entrepreneurs and fastest-growing businesses, and are matched with complementary, skilled peers to develop business plans and product or service prototypes. The annual GSE intensive program culminates in a pitch competition attended by a large audience representing Kentucky's entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Students accepted are:
Srimayi Galla, Apollo High School
Jonathon Parker, Daviess County High School
Sixteen students will represent the Daviess County Public Schools district at the 2025 Governor’s Scholars Program.
The Governor’s Scholars Program is a residential summer program for Kentucky’s most outstanding students as they complete their junior year of high school. This program provides academic and leadership growth in a challenging, non-traditional experience that balances a strong liberal arts program with a full co-curricular and residential life experience. According to the GSP website, the program’s mission is to enhance Kentucky’s next generation of civic and economic leaders, engaging over 1,000 students each summer.
DCPS students who will attend GSP are:
From Apollo High School:
Asher Alvery
William Berry
Alexandria Board
Erin McManus
Alex Ocasio
Morgan Shook
From Daviess County High School:
Maya Foster
Amy Meffert
Rachel Moran
Mallory Raines
Ellie Rue
Alexa Salamah
Katherine Tillman
Christian Boswell
Jonah Cecil
Benjamin Watkins
Six students will represent the Daviess County Public Schools district at the 2025 Governor’s
School for the Arts.
The Governor’s School for the Arts provides three weeks of intensive instruction for promising young high school students in nine different arts disciplines: architecture and design, creative writing, dance, drama, film and photography, instrumental music, musical theatre, visual art, and vocal music.
According to the GSA website, these students will be immersed in a rigorous schedule of daily seminars, master classes, lectures, hands-on workshops, and field trips. While each student specializes in one art form, all students participate in structured, interdisciplinary arts experiences designed to familiarize them with the joys and challenges of specialties other than their own.
Apollo and Daviess County High School students who will attend GSA are:
Drama:William Berry, Apollo High School
Blaize Free, Apollo High School
Musical Theatre:
Ballard Branham, Apollo High School
Film & Photography:
William French, Apollo High School
Katherine Mason, Daviess County High School
Design:
Ryleigh Wyatt, Daviess County High School
The Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky has selected 98 Kentucky sophomores for the Class of 2027, marking The Gatton Academy’s 20th incoming class. One student from Daviess County Public Schools has been selected to attend this prestigious high school in Bowling Green, KY.
The student selected to attend from DCPS is:
• Samuel Gordon, Daviess County High School, son of J. Sale Gordon and Julie H. Gordon of Owensboro
Two Daviess County Public Schools juniors have been accepted to attend the Murray State
University Commonwealth Honors Academy.
Per the MSU CHA website, the Commonwealth Honors Academy is a three-week academic enrichment experience held every June on Murray State University’s main campus in Murray, KY. Students live and learn with their peers and teachers from the area as they take college-level honors courses, take field trips that enrich classroom experiences, attend speakers and listen to professional artists perform and talk about their work, and participate in social and personal growth seminars.
Graduates complete and receive credit for six hours of college-level courses and are eligible to take six additional tuition-free classes during their senior year. Each student will be assigned to an Interdisciplinary Humanities and Fine Arts course and to one elective in Business, Science, Education, Health Sciences, Humanities and Fine Arts, Social Science, Communications, or Engineering.
Accepted students are:
Zaleigh Latham, Apollo High School
Rachel Fulkerson, Apollo High School
It is greenhouse season for AHS and DCHS! Details about each greenhouse are below:
AHS: Opening Day April 7 | Open M-F, 8 am -4 pm
DCHS: Opening Day April 14 | Open M-F, 8:45 am - 5:30 pm
Be sure to stop by and get your student-grown items. They will be open till they sell out.
