Polk Middle eighth graders get glimpse of future through Career Day

More than two dozen local employers and colleges spent Feb. 22 at Polk County Middle School, talking with eighth graders at...

Local astronomer shares wonders of space with Polk Middle sixth graders

A group of sixth grade students at Polk County Middle School kicked off the recent Career and College Week by learning...

Wise Words from Wolverines project offers insights from PCHS alums

Polk County High School graduates have gone on to achieve many notable things in life, as the Wolverines Around the World...

Polk Middle students “escape” to learn more about U.S. history

If you were to visit Eric Eaton or Matthew Russell’s social studies classrooms at Polk County Middle School recently, you would...

Audience helps decide the story in PCMS production of Big Bad Musical

Should the Big Bad Wolf pay the price? Or should he go scot free? You get to decide - if you...

Polk Middle hikers visit Vaughn Creek Greenway

The Nature Navigators, Polk Count Middle School's hiking club, recently hiked the Vaughn Creek Greenway in Tryon

PCMS sixth graders get glimpse into world of Pakistan truck art

An ongoing study of poetry as well as the book I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai made for an educational trip...

PCMS seventh graders think selling products in Victorian times

A group of Polk County Middle School seventh graders recently put on their thinking caps to create products that would have...

PCMS students get look at impact of engineering on NASCAR

Eliza Russell of the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte recently visited the STEM (science, engineering, mathematics and technology) classes at...

Polk Middle hiking group visits Walnut Creek Preserve

Members of Polk County Middle School's Nature Navigators recently headed to Walnut Creek Preserve in Mill Spring for a mid-December hike