🏀 Meet the Comets Night! 🏀

Join us Thursday, November 12, at 5:30 PM in the Alton High School Cafeteria!

🍲 $10 All-You-Can-Eat Homemade Chili Supper – Includes a drink and dessert! Proceeds support the Senior Class Trip.

🧁 Baked Goods Auction – Proceeds benefit the Alton Boys and Girls Basketball Programs!

Come enjoy a great meal and support our Comets! 💙🏀

1 day ago, Alton Business Department

Please join us on November 11, 2026, at 1:00 p.m. as Alton High School hosts the Veterans Day Assembly. All veterans, active-duty service members, reservists, and guests are welcome to be in attendance.

2 days ago, Alton Business Department
🎄✨ IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS! ✨🎬

Grab your popcorn and get ready for a magical evening! 🍿❤️ Alton Elementary invites all parents, families, and community members to join us for our annual Christmas program, Christmas at the Movies!

Our Kindergarten through 5th Grade students have been working hard to prepare a special evening filled with Christmas music, holiday cheer, and a little movie magic!

📅 Friday, December 4th
🕕 6:00 PM
📍 Alton High School Gym

Bring your family, invite your friends, and come celebrate the most wonderful time of the year with us! We can't wait to share this special evening with you! 🎅🏼🎄

2 days ago, Kinzie AraSmith

Alton FCCLA and FBLA would love to continue our special Veterans Day Slideshow tradition and recognize our local heroes during our Veterans Day Assembly on November 11, 2026, at 1:00 PM in the Alton High School Gymnasium.

We invite community members to submit information and photos of veterans and active-duty military service members, past and present, including those who are no longer with us, for inclusion in our slideshow.

Please include the following:
-A digital or scanned photograph of the veteran
-Veteran's full name
-Branch of military service
-Living or Memorial

📅 Submission Deadline: Monday, November 2, 2026

📧 New Submissions, Updates, or Corrections: If you would like to submit a veteran's information or need to make updates or corrections to a previous submission, please email amandagrangerbettis@alton.k12.mo.us.

If your veteran has been featured in previous years and no changes are needed, you do not need to resubmit their information.

We want to ensure that every veteran is recognized and that all information is accurate and up to date.


Thank you for helping us continue this meaningful tradition of honoring the brave men and women who have sacrificed so much for our freedom! ❤️🤍💙

-Alton FCCLA and FBLA – Honoring Those Who Served!

14 days ago, Alton Business Department
Alton R-IV School District is taking applications for a special education paraprofessional. We would love to have you join our team!
15 days ago, Alton Elementary
🌴🧳 Tourist mode: ACTIVATED! 📸😎 Our teachers are taking a little vacation from the ordinary and bringing the tacky to Underground Spirit Day! Hawaiian shirts, fanny packs, and all the tourist vibes! 🏖️🕶️ #UndergroundSpiritDay #TackyTourist #AltonElementary
22 days ago, Kinzie AraSmith
Parents,
Today, our school briefly entered a soft lockdown due to a medical emergency on campus. This was a precautionary measure to ensure the safety and privacy of everyone involved while the situation was addressed. All parents directly involved have been notified. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation as we work to keep our students and staff safe.
28 days ago, Alton Elementary
Today, our school briefly entered a soft lockdown due to a medical emergency on campus. This was a precautionary measure to ensure the safety and privacy of everyone involved while the situation was addressed. All parents directly involved have been notified. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation as we work to keep our students and staff safe.
28 days ago, Alton Elementary
The students in our ECSE classroom had fun this week learning about our 5 senses. We tasted apples, went on a sensory walk using touch with our feet, used Mr. Potato Head to talk about our 5 senses, and had Mrs. Kasey, Teddy, and Evah come and show us how popcorn is made using the popcorn machine. We used all 5 senses tasting the popcorn, touching the popcorn, smelling the popcorn, and hearing and seeing the popcorn popping. Thank you Mrs. Deckard, Mrs. Kasey, Teddy, and Evah for the popcorn!
about 1 month ago, Alton Elementary
Alton Elementary Red Ribbon Week is October 26–29!

Our theme is “Be a Hero. Stay Drug Free!” Join us for a week of fun as we encourage students to make healthy choices!
about 1 month ago, Alton Elementary

Senior Students and Families,
We will be having our drop in FAFSA night on October 8th from 5:30-7:00 in the High School Library to help students and parents complete Federal Financial Aid for college. We hope you can join us!

about 1 month ago, Sydney Colbert
⚠️ IMPORTANT NOTICE ⚠️ Due to a county-wide outage, all phone lines and internet services are currently down across the Alton R-IV campus. If you need to contact the school during the outage, please send us a message through Facebook or email: Elementary: tonyawillard@alton.k12.mo.us High School: amyking@alton.k12.mo.us Thank you for your patience and understanding while services are being restored. We will share updates as they become available.
about 1 month ago, Alton Elementary
Check out this week's athletics schedule! Go Comets!
about 2 months ago, Alton Elementary

The Alton Senior Class truly appreciates your generosity and support of our senior class!

about 2 months ago, Alton Business Department
🏐💙💛 Lady Comets Alumni Volleyball Game 💛💙🏐

Come hungry and enjoy a pulled pork sandwich with chips during the Alumni Volleyball Game!

Other hot concession items will also be available in the High School Cafeteria.

Come out, support the Lady Comets, enjoy some great volleyball, and grab supper while you’re there! 🏐
about 2 months ago, Alton Business Department
Check out this week's Comet athletic activities!
about 2 months ago, Alton Elementary
Our ECSE classrooms was introduced to Mat Man today. We built and sang our Mat Man song, learned about curvy and straight lines, and some of us even built Mat Man using playdough during center time. We are learning while having fun!
2 months ago, Alton Elementary
Attention Comets: There will be no school on Monday, September 7th, 2026 in observance of Labor Day. Enjoy your long weekend! We'll see you Tuesday!
2 months ago, Alton Elementary

📢Attention📢
All elementary basketball forms are due Tuesday, September 1st. Forms were sent home with students on the first day of school, but if you do not have one you can stop by the elementary office to fill one out! Thank you!

2 months ago, Alton Elementary




Alton R-IV School District is proud to announce that Alton Schools is a 2025-2026 National Beta School of Distinction and Merit. The school earned the Distinction recognition by increasing their club’s membership by at least 10% from last year and the Merit recognition by offering National Beta to all eligible grades on their campus.
National Beta School of Distinction is an honor for Beta clubs striving towards academic achievement, exemplary character, demonstrated leadership and service to others. With an ongoing quest to instill these qualities in more students, the National Beta School of Distinction Award is designed to reward those schools that show an increase in membership for the current school year. This year, only 2,959 clubs across the country received this award.
The National Beta School of Merit award is given to honor a club’s dedication and commitment to academic excellence. To achieve this prestigious honor, a school must include members from all eligible grade levels in their Beta club. This year 6,103 clubs across the country received this award.
In a congratulatory letter to the school, Bobby Hart, CEO said “Thank you for your continued support of National Beta and commitment to developing future leaders!”
Lisa Thompson who is the high school Beta sponsor stated, “We are thrilled to receive these awards again this year. Beta is an important organization in our school district recognizing academic excellence, student character and leadership skills, and following the Beta motto, ‘Let Us Lead by Serving Others’.”

With more than 500,000 active members and 14,000 clubs nationally and internationally, National Beta has become the nation’s largest independent, non-profit, educational youth organization. National Beta recognizes outstanding achievement, promotes character and social responsibility, encourages service involvement to school and community, and fosters leadership skills. National Elementary Beta includes grades 4-5, National Junior Beta includes grades 6-8 and National Senior Beta includes grades 9-12. Visit betaclub.org for more information.

3 months ago, Lisa Thompson