Blackmore Elementary School - Home of the Bears

We want to inform you about an important update to our school district’s safety procedures beginning in the 2025-2026 school year. The USD 490 Board of Education has approved a tr...

tBy Rod Blackburn Partners In Education Foundation’s PIE Patrol distributed almost $8,500 by funding thirteen grants to the district’s schools on February 25th. This is the se...

Three USD 490 elementary students have had their artwork selected to represent each of our elementary schools in the Kansas Youth Art Month Exhibit at the Topeka Shawnee County Li...

Blackmore fourth graders had the opportunity to see through the lens of the main character, Melody, in their class read-aloud book, Out of My Mind , on Feb. 21, 2025. In the boo...

The Coutts Museum of Art is hosting their annual Student Art Show Feb. 8 – Mar. 20, 2025, and several USD 490 students will have artwork on display. There will be receptions on Fe...

Operation Holiday Magic is once again spreading holiday cheer by providing Christmas gifts to USD 490 students who have been recommended by school staff based on need. The projec...

Third-grade students at Skelly and Blackmore Elementary Schools received a special gift on Dec. 4, 2024: their very own dictionaries, courtesy of the local Rotary Club. The dictio...

Fifth grade students from Blackmore, Grandview, and Skelly gathered in Skelly’s gym on Nov. 22, 2024, to be recognized for completing the ten-week Drug Abuse Resistance Education ...

Blackmore Elementary offered VIP passes to special activities for students to purchase with their Bear Bucks this year as an added attendance incentive. The first VIP events occur...

During the annual Pennies By the Pound Campaign, USD 490 schools raised $3,847.67 to donate to United Way of El Dorado. Each school hosted a competition Nov. 4-8, 2024, to encoura...

Students at Blackmore Elementary School participated in a fun and educational day at the Blackmore Fall Festival on Nov. 7, 2024. The event, hosted behind Blackmore by the K-State...

USD 490 schools were awarded nearly $54,500 in grants from this year’s Tim Underwood Memorial Golf Tournament. Teachers can request grants each year to purchase materials, furnitu...

Explore 490 is a summer academic enrichment camp offered exclusively to current USD 490 students identified as at-risk who are in grades K-5. Students will rotate between classroo...

Blackmore Elementary has received the 2023-2024 Capturing Kids’ Hearts National Showcase Schools® award (www.ckh.org ). This distinction directly reflects the unwavering dedicatio...

El Dorado Public Schools USD 490 announced today that all three USD 490 elementary schools have been recognized as a 2023-24 Project Lead The Way (PLTW) Distinguished School. This...

Two fourth grade and one second grade class at Blackmore learned how to make nature prints from Dr. Lori Santos on April 30, 2024. Dr. Santos works at Wichita State University an...

The USD 490 Board of Education approved the hiring of Anita Arnold as the incoming Blackmore Elementary Principal during their regular board meeting on April 8, 2024. Arnold earn...

Blackmore third grade student Natalie Walker has been selected as one of the Youth Art Month (YAM) featured artists for her oil painting of Max the dog. Her art will be featured o...

USD 490 elementary and middle school students will have art exhibited at the Coutts Museum of Art’s 30 th Annual Butler County K-8 Student Art Show from Feb. 10 through Mar. 23, ...

Each year, students compete against their classmates to be named the school spelling bee champion and earn the right to represent their school at the Butler County Spelling Bee. ...