
The necessary pain of dicing onions! Students are making baked mac and cheese in foods class.


Congratulations to our Dutchmen Girls Swim Team! Our own Hallie Drossel is the State Champion (again) in the 100 Breaststroke! Hallie's time was 1:03.73. The 200 Medley Relay of Makayla Zirbes, Hallie Drossel, Paige Gruber & Kaydence Bertram took 4th Place with a time of 1:50.06. Hallie Drossel took 5th Place in the 200 IM with a time of 2:10.09. The 200 Free Relay of Hallie Drossel, Brooke Ruoff, Paige Gruber, & Kaydence Bertram took 8th Place with a time of 1:40.88. Congratulations!


Let's Cheer for our Dutchmen Girls Swim Team as they race at State today at noon! All four events made it to finals!
200 Medley Relay - Seeded 3rd & New School Record 1:49.39 (Makayla Zirbes, Hallie Drossel, Kaydence Bertram, Paige Gruber)
200 IM - Hallie Drossel - Seeded 4th & New School Record 2:08.97
200 Freestyle Relay - Seeded/Tied 4th Place 1:39.80 (Hallie Drossel, Brooke Ruoff, Paige Gruber, Kaydence Bertram)
100 Breaststroke - Hallie Drossel - Seeded 1st 1:03.89


Can anyone guess what year this is from? Recognize anyone? #FridayFun #DutchmenPride -- For more great photos from Melrose Activities visit our Touchpro site: bit.ly/Dutchmenhistory


Staff were treated to a Culinary Class Chili Cook-off today! Mr. Cozatt, our culinary foods teacher, invited staff to bring their appetites and discerning palates to work. There were six different batches of chili available for sampling today. The chili was tested, and results of the cook-off will be tallied! Thanks to the students and staff for participating! MMMmmm!





Winter athletics and activities have begun! The support of the community as our talented students compete and perform makes us #DutchmenProud. Let's continue this great season!



Our students are cheering for the swimmers from afar! Let's go Dutchmen!


The basketball team enjoyed some team building activities yesterday! Our students learn leadership, collaboration and so much more during their activities! #DutchmenPride




Good luck to our Dutchmen Girls Swim Team as they head down to the State Meet! A special thanks to our local EMS for escorting them out of town today! #DutchmenPride



Melrose Area Chamber of Commerce presented Nathan Meyer with the 2022 Spirit of Melrose Award, and all Melrose bus drivers with the 2022 Employee of the Year Award. Julie Mayers - bus driver and Melrose school paraprofessional - received the award on behalf of the bus drivers. Congratulations to these award recipients! #DutchmenPride



The kindergartners worked as a team to create this snowman at recess! These are our future leaders, engineers, problem solvers and builders!


Jr. Knowledge Bowl News: One of our 5/6 teams placed first again yesterday at Buffalo! A 5/6 team has taken first place in all three of the meets so far. This team also received ribbons for being the paper/pencil round champions. Congrats!


Our district website now includes important information on the bond referendum being held February 14th. Check out the site to learn more about the proposed plan for our district! 📚💻 #DutchmenPride


We had a Pep Fest to celebrate our Fall Activities and to commend the Girls Swim/Dive Team on their wonderful season. Pictured are the 2022-23 State-bound swimmers and their coaches. Congratulations!




The Melrose Area Girls Swim/Dive Team are Section 6A Champions, for the first time! The Dutchmen competed this past weekend, at Alexandria.
Swimmers advancing to the State Meet: *Hallie Drossel in the 200 IM and 100 Breaststroke (her breaststroke time was a Section Record) *200 medley relay of Brooke Ruoff, Hallie Drossel, Paige Gruber, Kaydence Bertram *200 Free Relay of Drossel, Ruoff, Gruber, and Bertram. *Hallie Drossel was honored as the Section 6A Swimmer of the Year. *Nathan Meyer was honored as Section 6A Coach of the Year.


Mr. Pundsack's biology class is dissecting rats! Great hands-on experience!




Congrats to our 5/6 Knowledge Bowl teams! They took 1st and 4th place at the meet at St. Katharine Drexel last week!

Congratulations to our Lady Dutchmen Swim & Dive Teams! They rocked it in Prelims and are onto Section Finals - with girls competing in every event. Diving Finals take place this evening, and Swim Finals take place tomorrow. Ticket & Livestream links can be found on the top of our website. Good luck!


"Happy Veterans Day. 🇺🇸 Thank you to all who have served. Our Veteran's Day program was an awesome tribute to all veterans.





Throwback Thursday! Check out these Melrose High School Alumni, who are now serving our students! 📢 Calling all Dutchmen Alumni - drop your photo and year below! 👇🏻
