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Schools Closed

MCS Closed January 25

Murfreesboro City Schools will be closed Monday, January 25 due to the ice and snow remaining on many side streets and school parking lots. ESP will be open at snow sites and operating under their inclement weather policy.  Please send snacks, breakfast and/or lunch with your child.


MCS News Update

Winter Weather

Parents: For school closing information, please be sure phone numbers and information in parent portal is correct.  The initial information regarding inclement weather closings will appear on Twitter @MCScommunicates followed by WGNS, City TV, Nashville media and an all-call to parents. ESP will follow the inclement weather policy attached below.… Read More »


MCS News Update

Nutrition Department Honored

Murfreesboro City Schools was awarded the first ever Shining Star Award for their work during the 2015 Summer Food Service Program. Sandy Scheele, MCS Nutrition Director, attended the No Tennessee Child Hungry Excellence Awards at the Tennessee Capital where she accepted the honor. The award is given to the summer… Read More »


Little Libraries

Little Free Libraries

Murfreesboro City Schools has partnered with the Breakfast Rotary Club of Murfreesboro and Read to Succeed to establish a Little Free Library system throughout the school district. MCS students along with the Murfreesboro community will be able to visit the free library at any city school and ‘bring-a-book, leave-a-book.’ Libraries… Read More »


MCS News Update

Basketball Championships

Murfreesboro City Schools hosted the 2015 Boys and Girls Basketball Tournaments on Dec. 3 in the Overall Creek Elementary School gymnasium. The girls’ competition began at 5:30 p.m. with Scales defeating Erma Siegel. The matchup was followed by the boys’ final where Black Fox secured a victory over Scales. Congratulations… Read More »


Loughrys Honored by City Schools Foundation

Loughrys Honored by City Schools Foundation

Ed and Andrea Loughry join an elite group of civic leaders to be honored by The City Schools Foundation for their support of public education at the 9th Annual Excellence in Education Celebration on Feb 5, 2016. Ed Loughry is a 6th generation native of Murfreesboro. Ed is a graduate… Read More »


Discovery School Advances to Regionals

Discovery School at Bellwood scored a consecutive third place win in this year’s Music City BEST robotics competition and has advanced to the South’s BEST Championship at Auburn University. The team earned high marks in several areas including fifth place robot, first place marketing presentation, best middle school robot, most… Read More »


MCS News Update

Parents – Learn More about TNReady

TNReady is the state’s new TCAP test for English language arts and math in grades 3-11. The new TNReady TCAP tests are designed to assess true student understanding and not just basic memorization and test-taking skills. TNReady will measure student understanding of our current state standards in English language arts… Read More »


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