Mountain Valley Elementary Home

After a year of discussing various projects to include in a school bond package, the Comal ISD Board of Trustees officially approved one for $397.7 million.

Learning a job firsthand is often the best way to know if it is the right fit. Community partners often provide that firsthand account for students interested in a particular job or career. Local business professionals give presentations, offer paid internships and more through Comal ISD's Career and Technical Education programs. Here's part three in a series of articles about CTE.

Through hard work, determination and teamwork, the freshman cheer team from Smithson Valley High School pulled off a big upset and earned the title of NCA National Champions.

Comal ISD alumni point to Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs as instrumental in helping them find their passions.

Students, teachers and parents celebrated their campus counselors last week throughout the district, making sure they felt appreciated.

Three Comal ISD students are among the top 2.6 percent of musicians in the state and will perform in the Texas All-State Music Band concert on Feb. 12, in San Antonio.

Parents, coaches, family and friends packed the gymnasiums at Canyon and Smithson Valley High Schools Wednesday to celebrate 20 senior athletes as they signed national letters of intent to play their sport of choice at the collegiate level.

Comal ISD teachers and staff members are celebrating CTE month throughout February. This is the first in a series of stories that will explain CTE and how the district is expanding its efforts to prepare students for their futures whether their next step is college, a vocation or trade school or employment. Students today have the opportunity to examine their options through a wide variety of CTE classes.

For the sixth year in a row, Comal ISD had tough competition for the annual Comal Shake Championship. This year, a fifth grade student from Mountain Valley Elementary took the coveted title for his outstanding interpersonal skills. Congratulations!

The Canyon Lake High School cafeteria was packed with 300 participants anxiously waiting to play chess on a Saturday in January. The pawns, the rooks, the bishops, the queens and, of course, the kings were lined up neatly in rows ready for the action. This was the district's first chess tournament of the year and here are the results.