Decatur County Middle School honors top students at banquet
DCMS honored 40 students who led their grades in GPA, turning a banquet into a public snapshot of academic competition at the middle school.
Decatur County Middle School turned its end-of-year banquet into a public measure of academic strength, recognizing the top ten GPA earners in each grade and putting 40 names on the school’s honor roll for fifth through eighth grade.
Fifth-grade honors went to Sean Taylor, Daxton Hutchens, Chance Beecham, Fisher Yarbro, Ella Grace Vise, Anna Rose Murray, Lizzy Lyman, Kiedis Jeffers, Madison Swindle and Cassidy Mann. In sixth grade, the top ten were Jay Varnick, Stetson Sorrelli, Mukti Patel, Lawson England, Ross England, Jaxx Romines, Mary Inman, Eli Courtright, Harris Barnes and Seth Rosson. Seventh-grade recognition went to Townsley Brasher, Barrett Dudley, Katie Beth Vise, Bella Rikard, Lezlea Muiruri, Lydia Campbell, Sadie Steward, Hannah Allen, Bentley Bates and Nevaeh Roach. Eighth-grade honorees were Annalise Brasher, Jenna Box, Adalynn Hartley, Max Hernandez, Savannah Huffman, Brayden Hall, Brycen Vaughan, Kyla Sewell, Thomas Inman and Gunner Young.
The school said students shared a meal before the rankings were announced, making the banquet both a celebration and a scoreboard for academic performance. That kind of public recognition gives younger students a clear benchmark for what high achievement looks like at DCMS, where families can see the names that set the pace for the year ahead.
Report cards were available Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and anytime after Memorial Day. Families could also view them on ParentVue or have them mailed home with a self-addressed stamped envelope. Kodi Breeden is listed as principal on the school’s official page, and DCMS is located at 2740 Hwy. 641 South in Parsons.
The school serves grades 5 through 8 in a rural, remote part of Decatur County. NCES lists enrollment at 424 students for 2024-25, while the district school list shows 426, a small variation that still places DCMS in the middle of a relatively tight-knit school community where academic rankings are easy to see and hard to ignore.
The honors banquet also fits a larger message from Decatur County Schools, which has been highlighting stronger academic expectations through recent TCAP results, a summer learning camp for grades PreK-8 at Parsons Elementary from May 26 through June 16, and a $5,000 TVA grant for DCMS STEM to support Journey Through CTE! for grades 5-8. Together, those efforts show a district leaning hard into achievement, skill-building and visible recognition.
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