Mokena Elementary School

Save the date for our back-to-school events! We are looking forward to welcoming our students and families back into our schools in a few weeks!

Congratulations! 🎉

Curbs and sidewalks are being replaced at Mokena Intermediate and Mokena Elementary. Please call ahead if visiting these schools or the District Office!

We love ❤️ a good transformation! Check out the refinished gym floors at MES and MJHS!

Mokena Elementary School is hiring an Assistant Principal for the 2022-23 school year. For more information and to apply please visit our website: https://mokena159.tedk12.com/hire/index.aspx

We’re SO proud of our K-5 students! They raised over $2,600 for the Cancer Support Center AND participated in a walk before school ended!

This summer, we’ve started replacing the fluorescent lighting with LED bulbs! 💡💡

Congratulations to our incredible employees on their years of service! We couldn’t do this without you! ☺️

At last week’s Board meeting, we honored this year’s Galaxy Award recipients one more time!

Let’s hear it for our retirees! 👏👏👏 You will be so missed- and we wish you all the best on your next chapter!

Lieutenant Sickles was recently presented with a small token of appreciation for his many years of service to our schools and to the community. Congratulations on your retirement and we wish you the best as you begin this next chapter in your life!  

We are proud of our rising 3rd graders who are practicing their reading and math skills from home in our summer learning program! Keep it up Claire, Joseph, Andrew, Matthew, Vincent, Bradley, Asher, Ryan, Fletcher, and Harper!

Our rising 2nd graders are continuing to grow into the summer with nearly 900 minutes of learning in our summer program! Keep it up Lucille, William, Amelia, Ronan, Henry, Alex, Siena, Thomas, Emma, Travis, and Matthew!

We can see these rising 4th graders are ready to blast off to MIS as they are continuing their learning with our summer program! Keep it up Madison, Ashlyn, Elliot, Weston, Thomas, Alexander, Charles, Gage, and Luke! 🚀

A special shoutout to our rising 1st graders who have continued their learning using our online summer program! Way to go Iacovos, Rylee, Callie, Kaylee, Teagan, Griffin, Brenden, Matthew, Marlowe, Connor, and Abel!

Congratulations to this year’s recipients of the Illinois Principal Association (IPA) Student Recognition award! Students were honored at a breakfast hosted by the IPA and a Board meeting. Way to go: Kathryn Blaisdell, Evan Dizon (MES), Addisyn Quinlan, Dominic Santelli (MIS)!

Congratulations to Girl Scout Troop 574 for earning their Bronze Award! The 5th graders chose to raise money to purchase playground equipment for MIS. Way to go Brooke Wheeler, Nadia Guiterrez, Grace Volakakis, Julianna Siville, Breena Guidera, Andrea Voith, and Delilah Clancy!

Last Friday, Mokena Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Melissa Fedora presented the annual “Teacher of the Year” awards! Congratulations to Debi Blank (MES), Nick Ruiz (MIS), and Don Shaughnessy (MJHS)! 🥳🥳

Ms. Borlee couldn’t make it to the last day of school but that didn’t stop her from sending her students off in style!

Happy last day of school! Have a wonderful summer! ⭐️🚀☄️#mokena159