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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...

Skelly second through fifth grade students recited poems in the Poetry Café on Mar. 5, 2025. This annual event is held at Skelly Elementary each spring and allows students to bui...

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...

Skelly Elementary students are spreading kindness in a delicious way! As part of the school-wide Kindness BINGO challenge, Mrs. O’Brien-Ogg’s second-grade class chose to complete ...

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 ...

Skelly hosted a Family Fall Fun Night on Nov. 14, 2024. Families were invited to enjoy fun educational games, meet animals, have a sweet treat, and learn about some of the communi...

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...

Skelly students learned how to make nature prints from Dr. Lori Santos on October 31, 2024. Dr. Santos works at Wichita State University and specializes in indigenous art and nat...

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...

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...

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, ...

Skelly students wrapped up their Jump Rope Ninja unit in PE on Jan. 31. They earned "belts" for jumping designated amounts without stopping or making a mistake. There were nine l...

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. ...

USD 490 classrooms received over $50,000 from the HF Sinclair Tim Underwood Memorial Golf Tournament fundraiser. The tournament raised over $265,000 for local non-profits and awar...

Last school year, local artist and alumni Jim Clements visited USD 490 elementary schools to demonstrate painting portraits with oil paint. This year, Clements is returning to eac...