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North Baldwin Battle of the Books is an annual reading competition event open to all fifth-, sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade students in the area served by Baldwin County High School. Students at participating schools read five chapter books (five sets of the required reading titles provided by a grant from the North Baldwin Coalition for Excellence in Education – NBCEE). Throughout the entire school year, students discuss and study these books…

On Tuesday May 2, 143 first- through sixth-grade students were invited to a day of skating and bowling, along with lunch, at the Bay Minette Recreation Complex for earning their Accelerated Reader (AR) goal points requirement with at least an 85 percent overall comprehension average. This reading is done in addition to their regular classroom academic assignments throughout the second semester of the school year so these students really go…

Several middle school students from Perdido School were recently honored at the annual Alabama Council on Economic Education Awards Luncheon. Students from across the state who placed first in one of the various economic competitions for the year were recognized for their outstanding achievement. Parents, teachers, principals, superintendents as well as other invited guests from across the state were there to support the winners at the UAB campus. Jackson Reid,…

Perdido Elementary / Middle School’s Resource Office Lucas Jones and his sister, Mrs. Selena Niehuss (who is also a Resource Office in Baldwin County) visited the seventh- and eighth-grade enrichment class last week. The students had recently been involved in a study of mysteries, and read The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sherlock Holmes. As a follow-up, Deputies Jones and Niehuss visited the class to talk to the students about…