Johnston Community School District

Athletic Registration for the 2026-2027 school year is now open. Follow the steps below:

🔗Visit this link: https://www.gobound.com/ia/schools/johnston and click the Registration tab.

💻Login or click ‘Create Your Account Now.’

📚Returning Students: Click on your student portal and register for activities. Skip all remaining steps.

🆕New to Bound: Create your family account and move on to the next step.

⌨️Click ‘Add a Student’ and then search for your student. Verify the information and click ‘Connect to My Student.

Johnston students are competing in the National History Day National Contest at the University of Maryland this week!

Our national qualifiers include Elyse Baugh & Tansi Bandaru (9th), Paige Neighbors (11th), Niko Meshesha (11th), Hannah He (11th) and Lisa Lu (7th). Lu competes today and the rest of our students compete on Tuesday.

The annual academic research competition for students in grades 6–12 is taking place from June 14 to 18. All 2026 projects are rooted in the annual theme: "Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History.” Best of luck, students! 💜💛

Read more: johnstoncsd.org/news/2026/04/nhd-state-contest-2026/

Our Johnston students have made it to Richmond, Virginia for the National Speech & Debate Tournament 2026! Enjoying the expo before their first day of competition!

The 2026 JHS Varsity Marching Band made its debut today at the Johnston Green Days parade! 💜💛🎷🥁🪈🎶

Join us in congratulating Johnston girls track coaches Chris Siewert and Nicole Beer for being selected as Coaches of the Year by the Iowa Association of Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches (IATC). What a great honor!🏆💜🐉

Head coach Chris Siewert was selected as the Class 4A At-Large coach.👏

Assistant coach Nicole Beer was selected as the Class 4A Wheelchair coach.👏

Members of the 2026 Johnston High School Varsity Marching Band will make their debut this weekend at the Johnston Green Days parade! Check them out at 10 am Saturday along Pioneer Parkway, going past Terra Park! 🎺🥁🎷 💜💛🎶 📣🚌

Johnston students competing in the 2026 Presidential AI Challenge national finals had an amazing trip to Washington, D.C.! Srihari Kumaresan, Arnav Kulkarni and Satya Thavanesh Yalla each won $7,000 for being regional champions and $500 from Amazon for being the state winner.

And they had an unbelievable experience. Two of them got to present their projects to first lady Melania Trump, while they all attended an awards ceremony in the East Room of the White House, and a luncheon in the Rose Garden. They went to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center with thousands of aviation and space artifacts, as well as to Capitol Hill, Amazon and the National Children's Museum.

The students won the chance to compete at nationals after being named regional champions with their proposals and solutions for how Artificial Intelligence can address a community problem or challenge. They were accompanied by advisors Adrianne Herbert and Cheryl Smith. Student David Shi competed remotely.

School’s out for the summer.😎☀️That means that Dragon Camps are in full swing!

Check out Johnston Community Education camp offerings: johnstoncsd.org/commed/programs/jcsd-sports-activities-camps/

Annie Orsini has been named the Johnston's new Executive Director of Instructional Services, following Monday night’s approval by the school board. Orsini will succeed Carol Eddy as one of six members of the JCSD Cabinet. She has served as principal of Jordan Creek Elementary in West Des Moines for the past five years. Read more: johnstoncsd.org/news/2026/06/orsini-exec-dir/