Parent Update

As we prepare for the upcoming school board election, we encourage all parents and community members to get to know the candidates. Video interviews with each candidate are now available on our district website.

A special thank you to our Flock Report video announcement group for conducting interviews of all 5 candidates for the 3 open positions. We appreciate their efforts to be consistent, impartial, and professional as they attempt to assist voters in being informed of their vote!

https://www.shepherdschools.net/page/board-of-education-election-2026

Middle and High School Drop-Off and Pick-Up Reminder

Families dropping off students on the west side of main campus may use the main campus drop-off loop or the drop-off loop down by the atrium. If you use the main campus loop, please follow the entire loop and let students out at the designated drop-off area. Please do not drop students off elsewhere in the parking lot.

If you need to enter the building during the designated times, please park in the other parking lot

Please do not stop on Hall Street to drop off students. This creates unsafe conditions for students, families, and other drivers. Always pull into one of the designated drop-off loops.

The main campus parking lot is not available for middle or high school pick-up after school. Please meet your student in the parking lot across the street (pictured below) or in the high school parking lot by the atrium. If you use the lot across the street, pull into a parking space and wait for your student. Students should use the crosswalk to reach you.

Thank you for helping keep arrival and dismissal safe and orderly for everyone!

Please fill out this google form if you have any relatives or family friends that served as a veteran and would like them to be put in a slideshow that will be shown at the Veteran's day assembly! Know that if any of your relatives or close family friends have passed they may be put in this slideshow as well!

The Raising Resilient Kids in a Screen-Filled World series continues on November 10! You are welcome to attend, even if you didn't make the first meeting.

Led by licensed professional counselor Tracey Galgoci, this empowering event offers practical tools to help you navigate modern screen habits, foster meaningful family connections, and protect your child's mental health. To make attending seamless, free childcare is provided, along with exciting incentives and prize drawings for parents in attendance. Make the most of your evening at the school by dropping in for expert guidance, supportive insights, and actionable strategies to help your family thrive.

There is a form that was corrected. PLEASE go to shepherd-mi.finalforms.com to complete this form.

We apologize for this inconvenience; completing this will help us offer appropriate programing for all SPS students! Thank you in advance!

The Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity is preparing to launch the new Youth Employment Permit Portal, a centralized online system that will modernize the state’s youth employment permit process and make it more convenient and accessible for minors, families and employers. Local school districts and nonpublic schools will no longer issue youth employment permits.

Beginning Oct. 2, employers and minors will use the new portal to complete the youth employment permit process through one statewide system. To help employers, schools, families and other stakeholders prepare for the transition, the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity will host a Youth Employment Permit Portal webinar on Thursday, Sept. 24, from 2–3:30 p.m. ET. For additional information and updates, visit Michigan.gov/YouthEmployment.

If you're looking for the most up-to-date student announcements, please visit this link. These are updated and read to students each school day in additon to being emailed to them.

For more information, click here.

State law—Michigan Compiled Law (MCL) 380.1293—requires school districts to provide information on post-graduation opportunities to each pupil enrolled in any of grades 8-12 no later than October 1. For information on Post Graduation Opportunities, click here.

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