LICKING R-VIII SCHOOL DISTRICT - Home of the Wildcats

Join us for our annual Licking FFA Chapter Banquet as we celebrate a year of hard work, accomplishments, and memories!

📅 Date: Friday, May 1, 2026
⏰ Time: 6 PM
📍 Location: Sherman Hill Fieldhouse

Come enjoy a great meal, recognize our members’ achievements, and help us honor the dedication and success of our program.

🎉📚 Wrapping Up Academic Week! 📚🎉 We ended Academic Week on a high note with a fun and well-earned Friday celebration! Our Advanced/Proficient Grade-Level/EOC students from the 24-25 school year enjoyed a field trip to Elephant Rocks & Arcadia Academy 🚌🌄 Students explored the beautiful scenery, spent time together, and celebrated their hard work and academic achievements throughout the year. To make the day even sweeter, each student was treated to an ice cream at Arcadia Academy 🍦 This week also highlights how important our state testing is. It gives students the opportunity to shine and truly show what they have learned throughout the year. We are proud of the effort, growth, and determination our students demonstrate during this time. #wechooselearning

🎉📚 Academic Week Celebration Continues! 📚🎉 On Wednesday, we had the chance to celebrate an amazing group of students who demonstrated outstanding commitment by achieving 95% attendance or higher! 👏 To recognize their dedication, these students were treated to a hot dog BBQ 🌭—a small way to say thank you for showing up, staying engaged, and making their education a priority each day. A big thank you to our chefs, Officer Bobby and Dr. Rinne, for cooking and helping make this celebration so special! 👨‍🍳👏 On Thursday, we continued the celebration by treating all students to snow cones 🍧 and recognizing everyone’s academic success. It was a great way to celebrate the hard work happening across our entire student body! We are so proud of our students’ dedication and effort. Keep it up! 💪✨ #wechooselearning #strivingforexcellence #wildcatpride

Russellville Track Meet Top Finishes- Medals Top 6- Jadyn Barnes 3rd Javelin Tyrone Merdian 2nd 1600m Tyrone Merdian 2nd 3200m Penelope Huff 4th 100m Penelope Huff 3rd 400m Penelope Huff 5th Long Jump Bailee Medlock 6th 400m Girls 4x100m Relay 3rd Top 8 (earned team points)- Lucas Bates 7th High Jump Kylee Rinne 7th 100m High Hurdles Olivia Clayton 7th 800m Jayde Thompson 7th Triple Jump Girls 5th 4x200m Relay

‼️Wildcat Track and Field Some tough kids in not great conditions to run! #WildcatPride

🏃🏽‍♂️👟Wildcat Track and Field ⭐️Russellville Live Results https://live.athletic.net/meets/67269?_gl=1*mbnv8z*_ga*NTc0MDY5NzQ3LjE3NzQyODE4MDI.*_ga_CV6QCFM8SJ*czE3NzU5MjcxNzkkbzEzJGcxJHQxNzc1OTI3MTg4JGo1MSRsMCRoMA

🏃🏽‍♀️🎽 Wildcat Track and Field Having fun and doing great things even in the rain!!

🏃🏽‍♀️🎽 Wildcat track Having fun and doing great things even in the rain!!

The Licking Varsity Wildcat Baseball team falls to Iberia tonight. Keep working, stay focused, and keep battling, Wildcats! Up next is Monday April 13th at Alton with a 4:30PM start. ⚾️

It was a rainy day for the Special Olympics spring games today but we brought home A LOT of gold! Since the meet got canceled half way through due to weather, the athletes did not get to compete in their 12:00pm event, so they only got to compete in 2 events and some didn't get to compete at all, but we still had a blast! Jaxx Wells- 🥇Standing Long Jump 🥈Softball Throw Woodrow Ramsey- 🥇Softball Throw 🥇Standing Long Jump Taylor Coffey- 🥈Standing Long Jump Wyatt Case- 🥇Standing Long Jump 🥇Softball Throw Ryder Evans- 🥇Softball Throw 🥈Standing Long Jump Myka King- 🥈Softball Throw 🥈100 Meter Dash Adam Morgan- 🥇Shotput 🥇100 Meter Dash Emma Jones- 🥇100 Meter Dash 🥇Javelin Brittany Tune- 🥇50 Meter Dash 🥈Softball Throw

JUST A REMINDER: PHYSICALS are Wednesday April 15th.

A little late, but never too late to celebrate! ⚾️ Wildcat Varsity and JV Baseball took on Plato and came away with two big wins! 🔥 Varsity: 17-2 WIN 🔥 JV: 7-1 WIN Great work by our Wildcats all arounf! #WildcatPride

🥎🧡 Wildcat Junior High Softball 🖤🥎 The Lady Wildcats fall to the Dora Lady Falcons tonight, but showed great effort from start to finish. This team continues to improve every game!!

🏃🏽‍♀️🎽 Wildcat Track & Field 🐾 More great moments from Girls Night Out! ✨ Jadyn Barnes medals with a 7th place finish in the javelin ✨ Ava Walker PRs with a strong performance in the discus ✨ Penelope Huff PRs in the 400m Proud of the hard work and progress from our Wildcats!!

✈️The next great adventure for the Wildcat Travel Club will the Dominican Republic.
There will be an informational meeting Wednesday, April 22 at 6:30 in the St John Catholic Church Hall.
www.eftours.com/3058047WE

Wildcat golf competing at Salem today. A great day for golf.

🥎🧡 Wildcat Varsity Softball 🖤🥎 Your Wildcats take the WIN over Dixon with a big 15-5 victory! Great team effort!!

🏃🏽‍♀️🎽 Wildcat Track & Field 🐾 Girls Night Out at Parkview High School! Shoutout to our Wildcats for putting in the work and seeing results: ✨ Freshman Penelope Huff PR’d in the 100m ✨ Bailee Medlock PR’d in the Triple Jump Hard work paying off—keep it rolling, Wildcats

🚨 Game Update 🚨 There will be NO Junior High Baseball game tonight vs. Houston. A make-up game will be scheduled at a later date (TBA). We will share details as soon as they are confirmed. Thank you for your understanding, and stay tuned for updates! ⚾

📚PreK-6th Grade Families: We look forward to seeing you TONIGHT for Family Reading Night! 🧡🖤