Explorer Elementary

Those of us who live in or around Harrisburg for any length of time have seen farm fields turn into foundations over the past two decades. If you aren't one of the original 558 re...

The federal government has declined to continue funding free meals for all students for the upcoming school year. This means all families will need to carry a positive balance in ...

Free Meals Will End at the End of This Year: Can You Still Qualify? While free meals for all students were a welcome relief during the pandemic, these benefits will end at the of...

What is PeachJar? Peachjar connects parents with valuable resources for their children. PeachJar is a cloud-based communication platform that streamlines school-to-home comm...

Background Since the Fall of 2020, the HSD Boundary Committee has analyzed building capacities and growth trends in our District neighborhoods in order to study the impact of t...

PIERRE, S.D. – The Department of Education is pleased to announce that Explorer Elementary (Harrisburg) and Platte-Geddes Elementary have been named 2021 National ESEA (Elementar...

Harrisburg School District Bond Passes Thank you to the voters of our community! Total Reg. Voters Total Ballots Rec'd YES Votes NO Votes SPOILED Voter ...

A motion to mandate masks was passed by the Harrisburg school board on Monday, November 16th. The primary goals of mandating masks are to: Reduce the risks to our staff ...

HSD Honors Our Veterans 𝘈𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘥, 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘝𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘋𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘴 (𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦.𝘨𝘰𝘷) 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘨 𝘏𝘪𝘨...

Due to a recall of Hand Sanitizer, that item was removed from all school lists.

Complete the Annual Information Update The Harrisburg School District is one of the fastest-growing school districts in the State of South Dakota. To create optimum class-sizes a...

Families in the Harrisburg School District are eligible to participate in a no-cost Kindergarten Readiness program. This unique opportunity for South Dakota families allows for pa...

Allow Our Email Addresses To Ensure You're Receiving Them Several email hosting companies are implementing additional filtering mechanisms due to the increase in COVID-19-rel...

Tips to keep children healthy while school’s out Based on available evidence, children do not appear to be at higher risk for COVID-19 than adults. While some children and infa...

COVID-19 (Coronavirus) A new type of coronavirus, abbreviated COVID-19, is causing an outbreak of respiratory (lung) disease. It was first detected in China and has now been dete...

In October 2019, the Harrisburg School District formed a committee to consider possible boundary changes. Analyzing building capacities and growth trends necessitated the committe...

Tips for Fast and Healthy Foods at Home Brown meats ahead of time. Put in a sealed container. Refrigerate meats for use the next day; freeze meats for use 2-3 days later. Note: ...

This fall, 18 third through fifth graders participated in EMBE’s Girls on the Run program held at Explorer Elementary. Girls on the Run is a national non-profit organization th...

This year, during their Library lessons, Explorer students read several books on the State children’s book award nominee list. Voting was held during library classes at the end o...