Palmyra Elementary Announces 2025-26 Award Winners
Palmyra Elementary School has announced its 2025-26 classroom award winners. Students were recognized for reading, math, academics, citizenship and character awards.
Kindergarten
Barnes: Top Reader Girl, Emma Huff; Top Reader Boy, Blake Jones; Most Improved Girl, Reece Abbott; Most Improved Boy, Bennett Kelley; Top Mathematician Girl, Presley Aubuchon; Top Mathematician Boy, Thomas
Kirtlink; Most Improved Math Girl, Callan Ritchhart; Most Improved Math Boy, Jansen Jackson; Overall Academic Girl, Stevie O’Brien; Overall Academic Boy, Frederick McElvain; Practice Safety Girl, Callan Ritchhart;
Practice Safety Boy, Lennox Wenneker; Accept Responsibility Girl, Emma Huff; Accept Responsibility Boy, Jansen Jackson; Welcome Kindness Girl, Reece Abbott; Welcome Kindness Boy, Frederick McElvain; Show Respect Girl, Presley Aubuchon; Show Respect Boy, Bennett Kelley; Citizenship Girl, Stevie O’Brien; Citizenship Boy, Blake Jones; Principal Award Girl, Emerson Waters; Principal Award Boy, Jensen Pratt.
Burwinkle: Top Reader Girl, Isabella Kerr; Top Reader Boy, Jaxson Hancock; Most Improved Girl, Bailee Kirby; Most Improved Boy, Spencer Cunningham; Top Mathematician Girl, Ellie Damron; Top Mathematician Boy, Brody Gottman; Most Improved Math Girl, Ava Runquist; Most Improved Math Boy, Reid Caldwell; Overall Academic Girl, Isabella Kerr;
Overall Academic Boy, Brody Gottman; Practice Safety Girl, Livianna Smith; Practice Safety Boy, Jensen Pratt; Accept Responsibility Girl,
Emersyn Kendrick; Accept Responsibility Boy, Reid Caldwell; Welcome Kindness Girl, Demi Mitchell; Welcome Kindness Boy, Silas Switzer;
Show Respect Girl, Miley Martin; Show Respect Boy, Drew Knoche; Citizenship Girl, Jentree Snodgrass; Citizenship Boy, Jaxson Hancock.
Churchwell: Top Reader Girl, Victoria Shackelford; Top Reader Boy, Hayden Myers; Most Improved Girl, Benelli Kroeger; Most Improved Boy, Hayden Myers; Top Mathematician Girl, Skylar Edmondson; Top Mathematician Boy, Henry Gottman; Most Improved Math Girl, Lydia Anderson; Most Improved Math Boy, Bentlee Abbott; Overall Academic Girl, Victoria Shackelford; Overall Academic Boy, Henry Gottman; Practice
Safety Girl, Quinlynn Riney; Practice Safety Boy, Hayden Myers; Accept Responsibility Girl, Faye Nichols; Accept Responsibility Boy, Lincoln Wenneker; Welcome Kindness Girl, London Smith; Welcome Kindness Boy, Kincade Burbridge; Show Respect Girl, Lydia Anderson; Show Respect Boy, Henry Gottman; Citizenship Girl, Skylar Edmondson; Citizenship Boy, Lincoln Wenneker.
Griesbaum: Top Reader Girl, Mia Kerkhoff; Top Reader Boy, Noah Greninger; Most Improved Girl, Selah Lasala; Most Improved Boy, Benjamin Moore; Top Mathematician Girl, Kyla Burbridge; Top Mathematician Boy, Shae Anderson; Most Improved Math Girl, Kyla
Burbridge; Most Improved Math Boy, Jay Jay Jones; Overall Academic Girl, Mia Kerkhoff; Overall Academic Boy, Noah Greninger; Practice Safety Girl, Harly Lafond; Practice Safety Boy, Teddy Stone; Accept Responsibility Girl,
Noralynn Hoerr; Accept Responsibility Boy, Shae Anderson; Welcome Kindness Girl, Selah Lasala; Welcome Kindness Boy, Walter Bunten; Show Respect Girl, Scarlett Murphy; Show Respect Boy, Noah Greninger; Citizenship Girl, Mia Kerkhoff; Citizenship Boy, Benjamin Moore.
Hultz: Top Reader Girl, Amelia Blickhan; Top Reader Boy, Nathan Matrisch; Most Improved Girl, Emerson Waters; Most Improved Boy, Will Knocke; Top Mathematician Girl, Elliot Kendrick; Top Mathematician Boy, Riggs Konrad; Most Improved Math Girl, Daneil Welty; Most Improved Math Boy, Will Knoche; Overall Academic Girl, Amelia Blickhan; Overall
Academic Boy, Nathan Matrisch; Practice Safety Girl, Claira Sherman; Practice Safety Boy, Jace Taylor; Accept Responsibility Girl, Grace Orton; Accept Responsibility Boy, Lucas Poole; Welcome Kindness Girl, Raelyn
Wolfe; Welcome Kindness Boy, Mox Funkenbusch; Show Respect Girl,
Pearl Ranabarger; Show Respect Boy, Jace Taylor; Citizenship Girl,
Elliot Kendrick; Citizenship Boy, Riggs Konrad.
First Grade
Blankenship: Top Reader Girl, Dylan Spratt; Top Reader Boy, Levi Yackley; Most Improved Girl, Juniper Winningham; Most Improved Boy, Everhett Nichols; Top Mathematician Girl, Andi Knoche; Top Mathematician Boy,
Beckett Henggeler; Most Improved Math Girl, Raylen Allen; Most Improved Math Boy, Lincoln Speckhart; Overall Academic Girl, Andi Knoche; Overall Academic Boy, Levi Yackley; Practice Safety Girl, Naveah Smith; Practice Safety Boy, Beckett Henggeler; Accept Responsibility Girl, Ree Lehenbauer;
Accept Responsibility Boy, Aden Coats; Welcome Kindness Girl, Raylen Allen; Welcome Kindness Boy, Korbyn Luckett; Show Respect Girl, Violet Raney; Show Respect Boy, Grayson Lay; Citizenship Girl, Mae Wessel; Citizenship Boy, Lincoln Speckhart; Principal Award Girl, Emberlee Cunningham; Principal Award Boy, Zander Hultz.
Kumm: Top Reader Girl, Breckan Schaefer; Top Reader Boy, Owen Hultz; Most Improved Girl, AraBella West; Most Improved Boy, Hank Harris; Top Mathematician Girl, Bethany Meyers; Top Mathematician Boy, Liam Baker;
Most Improved Math Girl, Evelyn Whiston; Most Improved Math Boy, Wyatt LaFoe; Overall Academic Girl, Breckan Shaefer; Overall Academic
Boy, Owen Hultz; Practice Safety Girl, Bethany Meyers; Practice Safety Boy, Logan Grindstaff; Accept Responsibility Girl, Blaire Cassity; Accept Responsibility Boy, Hank Harris; Welcome Kindness Girl, Evelyn Whiston; Welcome Kindness Boy, Liam Baker; Show Respect Girl, Harper Goodwin; Show Respect Boy, Finn Sutter; Citizenship Girl, Kimber Hoerr; Citizenship Boy, Owen Hultz.
Miller: Top Reader Girl, Lila Bounds; Top Reader Boy, Reid Schneider; Most Improved Girl, Scarlet O’brien; Most Improved Boy, Grayson Holmes; Top Mathematician Girl, Bailey Fletcher; Top Mathematician Boy, Lawson Rickerson; Most Improved Math Girl, Vaeda Blankenship; Most Improved Math Boy, Gunnar Oswalt; Overall Academic Girl, Bailey Fletcher; Overall Academic Boy, Reid Schneider; Practice Safety Girl, Bailey Fletcher; Practice Safety Boy, Knoxx Shade; Accept Responsibility Girl, Scarlet Obrien; Accept Responsibility Boy, Grayson Holmes; Welcome Kindness Girl, Hayes Armontrout; Welcome Kindness Boy, Rafe Fessenden;
Show Respect Girl, Julia Marquardt; Show Respect Boy, Nash Trenkamp;
Citizenship Girl, Lila Bounds; Citizenship Boy, Daxson Redd.
Scholl: Top Reader Girl, Cecily McIntosh; Top Reader Boy, Samuel Butler; Most Improved Girl, Emilia Hoewing; Most Improved Boy, Connor Lay; Top Mathematician Girl, Aria Kaden; Top Mathematician Boy, Benson
Guthrie; Most Improved Math Girl, Brayleigh Kumm; Most Improved Math Boy, Griffen Thomas; Overall Academic Girl, Adalee Hein; Overall Academic Boy, Jacob Campbell; Practice Safety Girl, Cecily McIntosh; Practice Safety Boy, Caysen Cooper; Accept Responsibility Girl, Natalie Orton; Accept Responsibility Boy, Hayken Bichsel; Welcome Kindness Girl,
Molly Howell; Welcome Kindness Boy, Rhett Cashman; Show Respect Girl, Brayleigh Kumm; Show Respect Boy, Jaxxon Plank; Citizenship Girl, Emmalyne Ward; Citizenship Boy, Easton Eger.
Second Grade
Eger: Top Reader Girl, Olivia Smith; Top Reader Boy, Presley Affoogo; Most Improved Girl, Serenity Jayne; Most Improved Boy, Silas Sutter; Top Mathematician Girl, Caroline Paro; Top Mathematician Boy, Myles Sullivan; Most Improved Math Girl, Serenity Jayne; Most Improved Math Boy, Briggs Gottman; Overall Academic Girl, Olivia Smith; Overall Academic Boy, Myles Sullivan; Practice Safety Girl, Hannah Job; Practice
Safety Boy, Briggs Gottman; Accept Responsibility Girl, Caroline Paro;
Accept Responsibility Boy, Bricyn Davis; Welcome Kindness Girl, Harper Sparks; Welcome Kindness Boy, Braylon Agena; Show Respect Girl, Zoe Ritchhart; Show Respect Boy, Presley Affoogo; Citizenship Girl, Olivia Smith; Citizenship Boy, Levi Meyers; Principal Award Girl, Tesla Jones; Principal Award Boy, Cain Huff.
Kroeger: Top Reader Girl, Jade Anderson; Top Reader Boy, Will Uhlott; Most Improved Girl, Lucy Doran; Most Improved Boy, Cortland Griffin; Top Mathematician Girl, Quinn Hummel; Top Mathematician Boy, Thatcher Ruth; Most Improved Math Girl, Austin Prewitt; Most Improved Math Boy, Nate Phillips; Overall Academic Girl, Jade Anderson; Overall
Academic Boy, Will Uhlott; Practice Safety Girl, Anna Hirner; Practice
Safety Boy, Braxton Snider; Accept Responsibility Girl, Jade Anderson;
Accept Responsibility Boy, AJ Massman; Welcome Kindness Girl, Austin Prewitt; Welcome Kindness Boy, Thatcher Ruth; Show Respect Girl, Brianne Bradney; Show Respect Boy, Christopher Rhine; Citizenship Girl, Quinn Hummel; Citizenship Boy, Braxton Snider.
Pemberton: Top Reader Girl, Braeylyn Fletcher; Top Reader Boy, Wyatt Shutter; Most Improved Girl, Ivy Nichols; Most Improved Boy, Samson Hulse; Top Mathematician Girl, Braeylyn Fletcher; Top Mathematician Boy,
Kiptyn Jones; Most Improved Math Girl, Jaycelyn Fessenden; Most Improved Math Boy, Owen Kroeger; Overall Academic Girl, Braelyn Fletcher; Overall Academic Boy, Wyatt Shutter; Practice Safety Girl, Kyngzton Welty; Practice Safety Boy, Sawyer Fee; Accept Responsibility Girl, Ivy Nichols; Accept Responsibility Boy, Raylan Clever; Welcome Kindness Girl, Ava Wolfe; Welcome Kindness Boy, Kaessen Kaltenbach; Show Respect Girl, Braeylyn Fletcher; Show Respect Boy, Jackson Watkins;
Citizenship Girl, Braelyn Fletcher; Citizenship Boy, Samson Hulse.
Redd: Top Reader Girl, Oakley Campbell; Top Reader Boy, Luke Hummel; Most Improved Girl, Piper Higgins; Most Improved Boy, Dom Hutchings; Top Mathematician Girl, Quinn Johnson; Top Mathematician Boy, Nathan Kerkhoff; Most Improved Math Girl, Gemma Wilson; Most Improved Math Boy, Dom Hutchings; Overall Academic Girl, Quinn Johnson; Overall Academic Boy, Luke Hummel; Practice Safety Girl, Ava Lockwood; Practice Safety Boy, Atticus McElvain; Accept Responsibility Girl, Oakley Campbell; Accept Responsibility Boy, Barrett Bock; Welcome Kindness Girl, Skylah
Clay; Welcome Kindness Boy, Luke Hummel; Show Respect Girl, Quinn
Johnson; Show Respect Boy, Zayn Hultz; Citizenship Girl, Oakley Campbell; Citizenship Boy, Denver Davis.
Third Grade
Hausdorf: Top Reader Girl, Alexis Sharpe; Top Reader Boy, Marshall Bounds; Most Improved Girl, Brooklyn Scholl; Most Improved Boy, Ryder Cashman; Top Mathematician Girl, Alexis Sharpe; Top Mathematician Boy,
Killian McGee; Most Improved Math Girl, Nevaeh Platt; Most Improved Math Boy, Owen Wessel; Overall Academic Girl, Alexis Sharpe; Overall Academic Boy, Killian McGee; Practice Safety Girl, Hattie Armontrout; Practice Safety Boy, Connor Jones; Accept Responsibility Girl, Everly
Bigelow/Aryan Ostrander; Accept Responsibility Boy, Archer Carroz; Welcome Kindness Girl, Aeris Yakes; Welcome Kindness Boy, Bentley Sutter; Show Respect Girl, Haven Jones; Show Respect Boy, JR Fessenden; Citizenship Girl, Sydney Brocaille; Citizenship Boy, Owen Wessel; Principal Award Girl, Reece Bennett; Principal Award Boy, Jase Oswalt.
Johnson: Top Reader Girl, Evey Tobias-Moore; Top Reader Boy, Mason Kroeger; Most Improved Girl, Maggie KRIETEMEYER; Most Improved Boy, Wyatt Creech; Top Mathematician Girl, Ashtyn Jones; Top Mathematician Boy, Mason Kroeger; Most Improved Math Girl,
Maggie KRIETEMEYER; Most Improved Math Boy, Camden Kerr; Overall Academic Girl, Shelby Speckhart; Overall Academic Boy, Mason Kroeger; Practice Safety Girl, Camille Anderson; Practice Safety Boy, Camden Kerr;
Accept Responsibility Girl, Shelby Speckhart; Accept Responsibility Boy, Max Hudson; Welcome Kindness Girl, Nala Jayne; Welcome Kindness Boy, Huck Knochel; Show Respect Girl, Ashytyn Jones; Show Respect Boy, Wyatt Creech; Citizenship Girl, Everley Smith; Citizenship Boy, Mason Kroeger.
Ott: Top Reader Girl, Naomi Black; Top Reader Boy, Braysen Ward; Most Improved Girl, Brexley Happekotte; Most Improved Boy, Waylon Stuhlman; Top Mathematician Girl, Amelia Moore; Top Mathematician Boy, Cooper Nicholson; Most Improved Math Girl, Syla Getz; Most Improved Math Boy, Liam Peraza Urbina; Overall Academic Girl, Amelia
Moore; Overall Academic Boy, Cooper Nicholson; Practice Safety Girl, Fiona Yates; Practice Safety Boy, Ethan Lovelace; Accept Responsibility Girl, Reece Bennett; Accept Responsibility Boy, Braysen Ward; Welcome Kindness Girl, Brexley Happekotte; Welcome Kindness Boy, Killian Hall; Show Respect Girl, Amelia Moore; Show Respect Boy, Cooper Nicholson;
Citizenship Girl, Syla Getz; Citizenship Boy, Waylon Stuhlman.
Reis: Top Reader Girl, Evelyn Poole; Top Reader Boy, Aiden Lehenbauer; Most Improved Girl, Mea Lewis; Most Improved Boy, Brayton Spicknall; Top Mathematician Girl, Piper Hall; Top Mathematician Boy, Silas Koch;
Most Improved Math Girl, Hadlee Huff; Most Improved Math Boy, Brayton Spicknall; Overall Academic Girl, Piper Hall; Overall Academic Boy, Silas Koch; Practice Safety Girl, Evelyn Poole; Practice Safety Boy, Finn Heimer; Accept Responsibility Girl, Blakely Wenneker; Accept Responsibility Boy, Silas Koch; Welcome Kindness Girl, Mea Lewis; Welcome Kindness Boy,
Toby Kroeger; Show Respect Girl, Avereigh Barnett; Show Respect Boy, Crew Carper; Citizenship Girl, Kovah Neiswender; Citizenship Boy, Bradley Saxbury.
Van Manen: Top Reader Girl, Adalynn Caldwell; Top Reader Boy, Jack Welch; Most Improved Girl, Luna McDaniel; Most Improved Boy, Cooper Standbridge; Top Mathematician Girl, Hadley Runquist; TopMathematician
Boy, Max Thomas; Most Improved Math Girl, Luna McDaniel; Most Improved Math Boy, Travis Bowers; Overall Academic Girl, Adalynn
Caldwell; Overall Academic Boy, Jack Welch; Practice Safety Girl, Hadley Runquist; Practice Safety Boy, Emory Laird; Accept Responsibility Girl, Melanee Barnett; Accept Responsibility Boy, Dylan Crist; Welcome Kindness Girl, Elizabeth Rathbun-Denish; Welcome Kindness Boy, Spencer
Grindstaff; Show Respect Girl, Azlynn Hamrick; Show Respect Boy, Max Thomas; Citizenship Girl, Nola Bunten; Citizenship Boy, Cooper Standbridge.
Fourth Grade
Dudley: Top Reader Girl, Leah Rhoads; Top Reader Boy, Jack Thrower; Most Improved Girl, Addyson Brockseick; Most Improved Boy, Phoenix Thomas; Top Mathematician Girl, Nicole Leon; Top Mathematician Boy, Wyatt Stark; Most Improved Math Girl, Bristol Murphy; Most Improved
Math Boy, Sam Weaver; Overall Academic Girl, Abby Mannigel; Overall Academic Boy, Jax Johnson; Practice Safety Girl, Haylee Holbrook; Practice Safety Boy, Beau Hayden; Accept Responsibility Girl, Hadley Pickering; Accept Responsibility Boy, Jack Thrower; Welcome Kindness Girl, Leah
Rhoads; Welcome Kindness Boy, Josh Powers; Show Respect Girl, Peal Obert; Show Respect Boy, Sam Weaver; Citizenship Girl, Abby Mannigel; Citizenship Boy, Declan Puester; Principal Award Girl, Maggie Redman; Principal Award Boy, Braxton Edmondson.
Eagan: Top Reader Girl, Elea Johnson; Top Reader Boy, Liam Schnieder; Most Improved Girl, Hayden Glascock; Most Improved Boy, Preston Dade;
Top Mathematician Girl, Josie Smith; Top Mathematician Boy, Ben Wiskirchen; Most Improved Math Girl, Kamryn Patre; Most Improved Math Boy, Rhett Howell; Overall Academic Girl, Sylvia Sutter; Overall Academic Boy, Joseph Harris; Practice Safety Girl, Aubrey May; Practice
Safety Boy, Liam Hudson; Accept Responsibility Girl, Maya Campbell;
Accept Responsibility Boy, Russell Landford; Welcome Kindness Girl, Zyler Orr; Welcome Kindness Boy, Rhett Howell; Show Respect Girl, Josie Smith; Show Respect Boy, Ben Wiskerchen; Citizenship Girl, Willow Harper; Citizenship Boy, Bennett Kumm.
Keim: Top Reader Girl, Hadlee Schaefer; Top Reader Boy, Bentley Shuck; Most Improved Girl, Eliana Porter; Most Improved Boy, Forrest Bock; Top Mathematician Girl, Hadlee Schaefer; Top Mathematician Boy, Lawson
Steffen; Most Improved Math Girl, Skylar Brocaille; Most Improved Math Boy, Parker Kroeger; Overall Academic Girl, Hadlee Schaefer; Overall Academic Boy, Lawson Steffen; Practice Safety Girl, Reyna Copeland; Practice Safety Boy, Monquail Mozee-Williams; Accept Responsibility Girl, Evelyn Phillips; Accept Responsibility Boy, Bentley Shuck; Welcome Kindness Girl, Olivia Tallman; Welcome Kindness Boy, Brayden Gottman;
Show Respect Girl, Millie Powell; Show Respect Boy, Michael Turner; Citizenship Girl, Eden Breitling; Citizenship Boy, Lawson Steffen.
Myers: Top Reader Girl, Emery Lehenbauer; Top Reader Boy, Carter
Rhine; Most Improved Girl, Brynlee Blakenship; Most Improved Boy, Lincoln Robbins; Top Mathematician Girl, Leah Gard; Top Mathematician
Boy, Mason Klompien; Most Improved Math Girl, Alix Gibson; Most Improved Math Boy, Eli Paro; Overall Academic Girl, Delainey Yackley; Overall Academic Boy, Bennett Henggeler; Practice Safety Girl, Emery Lehenbauer; Practice Safety Boy, Carter Rhine; Accept Responsibility Girl, Brynlee Blankenship; Accept Responsibility Boy, Braxton Edmondson; Welcome Kindness Girl, Haydyn Goode; Welcome Kindness Boy, Bryson
Anderson; Show Respect Girl, Leah Gard; Show Respect Boy, Lincoln
Robbins; Citizenship Girl, Aria Hubbard; Citizenship Boy, Bennett Henggeler.