Important News

Parents, Please encourage students to enter the Star Merit Scholarship Contest. Students that want to submit an essay must write 300-600 words on "What does 'fair and effective' governing mean in a democracy?" Essays should be typed or written clearly, proper use of reference citation, should include Student Name, Student School ID #, and Middle School. If interested, complete the…

Lake Elkhorn Middle School Spring STEM Academy - Register by 4/7 We are now accepting registration for our Spring STEM Academy courses. Courses are free and will run one day a week from April 18 to June 8. The deadline for registration is April 7, 2017 . To register visit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2017stemacademy . If you have any questions please contact us…

On March 24, 2017, Lake Elkhorn Middle School was victorious at the MESA competition, making so the MESA team going to the state competition. The MESA students went to John Hopkins University for the competition. Their submissions were: Alice 3 programming game, Hovercraft, and Bridge. Sadly, prosthetic wasn’t able to be finished. Each group went into separate rooms to perform…

Greetings, Lake Elkhorn families: This Sunday, our Symphonic Orchestra students will be performing at the Columbia Mall as part of the 50 th Anniversary of Columbia celebration. The performance is scheduled from 1:30-2:00 pm outside of Books-a-Million, near the Macy's, Nordstrom and Panera. They would love to see some familiar faces! We also wish the best to our Debate, Actor’s…

Please keep an eye out for third quarter interim progress reports, which are being distributed to students today!

On May 18th LEMS will have it's annual Enrichment Fair. As we did last year, we will be having may different performances for people to watch and help them learn about the many amazing things going on here at Lake Elkhorn. The Ernichment Fair will be featuring the Actors Giuld performing their Shakespeare Festival play, the Debate Team will be…

This year Lake Elkhorn began to compete in the Science Olympiad. In their first year they were able to qualify to be eligible to participate in the Maryland State competition. The LEMS Science Olympiad Team participated in the Maryland Regional tournament at the University of Maryland in College Park. LEMS, was one of three middle schools in Howard County to…

The 6th grade students are helping out two animal shelters for their Student Service Learning project this year. We are collecting donations for the Howard County Animal Control and Shelter, and K-9 Lifesavers. Please see the list of items, if you would like to donate anything. Students can bring the items and leave them with their first period teacher.

HCPSS middle and high school parents are invited to provide feedback on their use of the Naviance online college and career readiness system. All responses are voluntary and the information collected will be shared with HCPSS school counselors. The survey is open until March 20th.

Greetings, Lake Elkhorn families: March already? Hard to believe it, but it’s time for parent-teacher conferences, which will be held on March 9 & 10. Please sign up through HCPSS Connect – further information is included in this newsletter. We held two very entertaining and inspiring activities here recently to celebrate Black History Month. Last week, Ladies First sponsored our…