Algona High School

Each year, the Algona Community School District awards Golden Apples to staff members with 25 years of service in the district. This year six staff members achieved this status. ...

Academic Decathlon competed on March 4th and 5th at the Regional State event at NIACC in Mason City. Students qualified for this by placing at a competition on January 27th and...

Wren Menke, a senior at Algona High School, is extremely interested in history. This interest has played a significant role in her life. During the 2020-2021 school year, Menke wa...

A class offered at Algona High School, workplace experience, really helps prepare students for a job in the workforce after high school. The first quarter of the class focuses on ...

National History Day is a contest that allows students to research a topic of their choice, centered around a major historical theme. This year’s theme was “Debate and diplomacy i...

SAE grants are designed to help FFA members create or expand their Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) projects. In order to receive a grant, the FFA member is to create and...

On Wednesday, April 20th, ten employees from the Algona School District were nominated for the ISEA Excellence in Education award. This is a recognition program sponsored by the I...

The FFA plant sale is currently going on. Being held on May 3rd, 4th, and 5th, from 3:30 to 6:00 pm. The Algona High School FFA greenhouse is located on the south side of the high...

The Algona girls’ golf team has been killing it on the golf course! Lainey Venteicher got runner up medalist with a 47 at the meet on Tuesday, April, 26. The girls went one and on...

The Drake Relays are a huge track event in the state of Iowa and were held on April 27th-30th. The Drake Relays bring in athletes from high school, college, and even professional ...

Miles Goche is the son of Andrea and Bob Goche. He has two sisters, Shayla and Sydney, and loves to hang out with their boyfriends, Ben and Jake. He loves to see his grandma, Caro...

Prom at AHS was held on Saturday, April 23rd. The event was a great success! To start the evening off, everyone pulled up with their nice cars, or their normal school car, but wit...

Model UN had their spring conference on April 7th and 8th at the University of Northern Iowa. According to advisor, Mr. Stein, Model UN is a role-playing simulation in which...

The high school offers a lot of fun electives that students enjoy. One class that gets you involved while being able to enjoy your work is baking. Mrs. Louwagie teaches a baking c...

Mr. Arrowood has been doing a lot of fun experiments in the anatomy classroom to get students engaged. One of the experiments was a Skittles lab. Students got in groups and ...

The NCC Art Show was held on April 13, 2022, at Iowa Central Community College in Fort Dodge. Algona High School students took a variety of creative visual art pieces and did an a...

Seventeen Algona FFA students attended the 94th Iowa FFA Leadership Conference. It was a two day trip for the students. The students traveled to Ames to the Hilton Coliseum on Apr...

Algona High School is now working with Drive Wise in Mason City to offer drivers education classes for Algona students. The classes will be held over Zoom. There are many differen...

The AHS boys’ and girls’ golf teams both finally took the greens for some meets. On April 11, the girls kicked off their season at Estherville for a match against ELC and Spirit L...

The leadership class, taught by Mr. McLaughlin and Mrs. Stein, teaches students how to accept and deal with things as a person. The class learns about themselves by taking persona...