🤓ELITE families:
Don't forget!! If your child plans on attending Friday ELITE this week please let me know by 6:00pm today.
mpratt@kpslonghorns.org or text 308-241-0693
On behalf of our players and coaches, thank you to the entire Kimball community for standing behind Longhorns football throughout the 2026 season.
Our theme this year was **Forged by Fire**. As coaches, we challenged our players to become better young men by keeping their word, taking responsibility, and showing up for others when things got hard. Injuries were one of the biggest fires we faced this season. It was hard to watch young men who had worked so hard have to spend time on the sideline. I was proud to see them stay involved and encourage their teammates, and to see other players step into new roles when the team needed them.
To our parents and families, thank you for rearranging your schedules, getting your kids to practice, helping with team meals, and being there for them through the good nights and the tough ones. As a coach, I get to see what your kids bring to practice every day. I know how much of that starts with what you do at home.
To our local businesses, thank you for the meals, donations, and generous support you gave our program. To everyone in Kimball who cheered from the stands, made the drive to an away game, volunteered on a Friday night, or stopped one of our players around town to encourage him, thank you. Those moments mean a lot to our kids.
We’re grateful for our amazing teachers and administrators at Kimball Public Schools for investing in our student-athletes and supporting school activities. Thank you to our bus drivers and transportation staff for getting us to away games and safely home on those late nights, and to our maintenance crew for the work you put into caring for the field and getting it ready for home games. Thank you also to our school staff, cheerleaders, and game-day crews for all you do on Friday nights.
I’m proud of our young men, and I’m grateful they get to grow up in a community that shows up for them the way Kimball does. **Go Longhorns!**
Coach Darrell Howitt
Head Football Coach, Kimball High School
Our theme this year was **Forged by Fire**. As coaches, we challenged our players to become better young men by keeping their word, taking responsibility, and showing up for others when things got hard. Injuries were one of the biggest fires we faced this season. It was hard to watch young men who had worked so hard have to spend time on the sideline. I was proud to see them stay involved and encourage their teammates, and to see other players step into new roles when the team needed them.
To our parents and families, thank you for rearranging your schedules, getting your kids to practice, helping with team meals, and being there for them through the good nights and the tough ones. As a coach, I get to see what your kids bring to practice every day. I know how much of that starts with what you do at home.
To our local businesses, thank you for the meals, donations, and generous support you gave our program. To everyone in Kimball who cheered from the stands, made the drive to an away game, volunteered on a Friday night, or stopped one of our players around town to encourage him, thank you. Those moments mean a lot to our kids.
We’re grateful for our amazing teachers and administrators at Kimball Public Schools for investing in our student-athletes and supporting school activities. Thank you to our bus drivers and transportation staff for getting us to away games and safely home on those late nights, and to our maintenance crew for the work you put into caring for the field and getting it ready for home games. Thank you also to our school staff, cheerleaders, and game-day crews for all you do on Friday nights.
I’m proud of our young men, and I’m grateful they get to grow up in a community that shows up for them the way Kimball does. **Go Longhorns!**
Coach Darrell Howitt
Head Football Coach, Kimball High School
Here is the link for the boys basketball store for the 2026-27 season as it now open:
https://bsnteamsports.com/shop/U44KrYZJWn
The flyer is attached with a QR code and the store will be open until December 14.
https://bsnteamsports.com/shop/U44KrYZJWn
The flyer is attached with a QR code and the store will be open until December 14.
ELITE Lego Club today! Thanksgiving challenge 🦃🌽🍗🌻
Yesterday at ELITE the kids could choose to play with manga tiles or do a direct drawing with chalk. 😁
Here is the wrestling store for the year.
Kimball Public Schools has declared the items on the attached list as surplus property.
All items are sold as is and are sold on a first come, first serve basis.
If you are interested in any of the surplus property at Kimball Public Schools, please contact Superintendent Trevor Anderson at: (308)235-2188 or tanderson@kpslonghorns.org
All items are sold as is and are sold on a first come, first serve basis.
If you are interested in any of the surplus property at Kimball Public Schools, please contact Superintendent Trevor Anderson at: (308)235-2188 or tanderson@kpslonghorns.org
We are seeing serious academic aptitude from these scholars: Kyndal R, Braedyn B, Miles A, Brayden F, JaLeigh B, Emmaline T, Rebecca K, & Robbie S. Not pictured: Parker D, Maddi E, and Kendall C.
🌟 11th Grade Milestones: Multiple students are working hard and performing right at their grade level while others have surpassed grade level and are working in post-high school leveled text!
🌟 10th Grade Success: These sophomores have either leveled up to grade level or are reading text at an impressive grade level rate of 232 to 241 words per minute while climbing!
🌟 11th Grade Milestones: Multiple students are working hard and performing right at their grade level while others have surpassed grade level and are working in post-high school leveled text!
🌟 10th Grade Success: These sophomores have either leveled up to grade level or are reading text at an impressive grade level rate of 232 to 241 words per minute while climbing!
Activities for the week!
They all Leveled Up!! Congrats!!! 📚🎉 #LonghornPride
ELITE artwork the kids have been working on this week: Mosaic Owl Art and Fall Trees 🌳🍂🦉
Congrats to these Longhorns for leveling up in Reading Plus! 📚🎉
Mary Lynch's 2nd Annual Pumpkin Contest has concluded. Congratulations to all the winners and thank you for all the great entries! HUGE thank you to HELPS for donating the pumpkins! 🎃
Mrs. Patterson's class had a special visitor today!!
Lego Club today at ELITE Afterschool Program. Building challenge: anything Fall 🍁🍂
Kimball JAG students joined JAG Students from all over the panhandle for a first class tour of Western Nebraska Community College. Students were treated to in-depth tours of nursing units including mock delivery rooms, welding shops and automotive repair and CDL training. Kimball JAG students displayed great respect and enthusiasm!
Dodgeball with Mr. Steve today at ELITE!! 😎
Mary Lynch Elementary Veterans Day Celebration
Attention ELITE families: We will have program after school on Friday! 🤓