Dr. Deborah Anderson, principal of Steffen Middle School in the Mequon-Thiensville School District (MTSD) has announced her intent to retire at the end of the 2023-2024 school year. Dr. Anderson’s retirement was approved by the MTSD Board of Education during their regular business meeting on Monday, February 26, 2024. Dr. Anderson has been with the MTSD since July 2002. With 22 years of experience in the role, she holds the distinction of the longest-serving principal of Steffen Middle School.
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The Mequon-Thiensville School District is proud to announce that fourteen student artists received accolades for their visual artwork through the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Students from Steffen Middle School and Homestead High School received five Gold Keys, four Silver Keys, and fifteen Honorable Mentions.
Senior Reagan Godden received 1st place at the local Post level and 2nd at the District level in the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Voice of Democracy Scholarship Contest
Early in the fall of 2023, Homestead sophomore Brandon Liao was selected as a Junior National Team member representing Team USA in the Short Track Speed Skating Junior World Cup, Series 1 and 2. During the competition, held at the end of November in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, Liao achieved a personal record in the 500-meter race and placed 25th in that event.
During a working meeting of the MTSD Board of Education on Monday, December 4, two co-chairs from the District’s 2023 Community Task Force presented the task force’s recommendation for mitigating budget shortfalls. The Community Task Force was convened in October following a charge from the MTSD Board of Education to evaluate the top alternatives from a recent analytical process and suggest prioritized revenue-generating solutions for current and future budget deficits. The Task Force was comprised of eleven individuals representing a diverse range of perspectives related to the school district and community and was co-chaired by MTSD parents and local business professionals, Joe Nelson and Katie Ott.
The Mequon-Thiensville School District has achieved a ranking of “Significantly Exceeds Expectations” on the 2022-2023 District Report Cards issued in November 2023 by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) with an overall score of 83.5. The district's ranked score is the 8th highest score or in the top 2%, among 367 K-12 public school districts in the state. MTSD has significantly exceeded expectations all nine years that the District Report Cards have been produced.