
May 3, 2024
The Central DeWitt Community School District Board of Education would like to provide an update on the superintendent hiring process. The board recently met with staff at Grundmey...

May 2, 2024
BLACK HAWK COMMUNITY COLLEGE • Keegan Mayfield, Undecided major • Zoa Strohbehn, Equestrian Science, AAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF ILLINOIS • Daria Prymachova, Business Administ...

May 1, 2024
How ❄️ cool ❄️ is it that our 4th-12th grade students raised almost $15,000 for Special Olympics Iowa as part of the Cool School Polar Plunge fundraiser?!!! On May 1st, they w...

May 1, 2024
Congratulations to junior Katlin Truelsen on being selected as the recipient of the 2024 Herbert Hoover Uncommon Student Award! She is one of only 15 students in the state to recei...

May 1, 2024
Congratulations to Assistant Superintendent Jen Vance who was selected as the 2024 Central Office Administrator of the Year by the School Administrators of Iowa! Throughout her y...

April 26, 2024
Third graders had an experience this morning that was out of this world! They spoke with former astronaut and Central DeWitt graduate David Hilmers through a video call. Students l...

April 21, 2024
Congratulations to Evan Kinney and Tori Rheingans who were chosen as the 2024 CDHS Prom King and Queen! What a great night full of fun thanks to so many who made it possible! T...

April 11, 2024
On Thursday, our freshman, juniors and seniors had the opportunity to learn about and network with over 50 area businesses and colleges during the Career Expo at the DeWitt Career ...

April 8, 2024
What an incredible experience shared by our students and staff today as they spent the afternoon viewing the solar eclipse! A huge thank you to The Education Foundation of Central...

April 2, 2024
Check out the unique planets that were on display at the 5th Grade Planet Fair last week! Students were asked to create their own planet and build a 3-D model of what it would look...

March 28, 2024
As you may have heard by now, Superintendent Dr. Dan Peterson has resigned from his position effective June 30, 2024. We are incredibly grateful to Dr. Peterson for the last 16 yea...

March 27, 2024
During spring break, members of this year's Central DeWitt Robotics Team were given a unique opportunity travel to Puerto Rico to compete in the FIRST Tech Challenge Puerto Rico Ch...

March 1, 2024
Today CDIS held a very successful Craft Show as their first-ever “Opportunity for Entrepreneurs.” This idea was brought about by 6th grader Talia Stroud who presented the idea to ...

February 7, 2024
On January 30th, the Central DeWitt Middle School Girls' Wrestling Team hosted its inaugural home meet in their first season of the program. The team consists of 19 wrestlers, (9 ...
February 2, 2024
We are excited to announce that Mark Bloom has been hired as the next CDHS principal! Please join us in welcoming him to our Saber Family!
As a district support administrator i...

January 27, 2024
💜 🏆 💛 Yesterday was a very proud day for Central DeWitt! Central DeWitt Intermediate School and Central DeWitt Middle School were officially recognized as 2023 National Unified Ch...

December 12, 2023
CDHS is upping their game with the addition of Esports, or electronic sports, a form of competition using video games. In its first season, 23 students from grades 9-12 are partic...

November 21, 2023
💜💛 If you walk the halls of CDHS with the principal, Mr. Pickup, you’ll notice he knows every single student’s name and something about each of them. That’s because building relat...

November 11, 2023
Today we thank our veterans for their service and the sacrifices they made to ensure our freedom. Our students took time yesterday to honor veterans during an assembly led by the ...

November 7, 2023
A few weeks ago, we introduced Portrait of a Graduate, the design process we’re using to reshape how we educate our students. In that communication, we included a survey fr...