Guymon Public Schools announces Rio-themed prom, seeks teachers and coaches

Guymon Public Schools has turned its live feed into the spring bulletin board families are checking for prom, staffing and calendar changes, and the biggest item was Guymon High School’s Rio-themed prom, which ran April 11 from 7 p.m. to midnight. The district set senior tickets at free, junior tickets at $100 and dates at $50, making the event one of the clearest near-term deadlines for students and parents planning around the end of the school year.

The same feed says the district is hiring across elementary and secondary grades, in multiple subject areas, specialty roles and possible coaching positions. In a system that serves about 3,000 students, those openings can ripple quickly through classrooms, athletic programs and after-school activities if they stay unfilled for long. Guymon Public Schools lists Melissa Watson as superintendent, with Julie Edenborough and Derenda Aranda as assistant superintendents and Kari Montgomery as chief financial officer.

That staffing push matters because Guymon’s schools are spread across a full K-12 pipeline. The district says it serves Carrier for pre-K, Homer Long and Homer Long Annex for kindergarten, Prairie for first and second grades, Academy for third and fourth grades, North Park for fifth and sixth grades, Guymon Junior High for seventh and eighth grades, and Guymon High School for grades 9 through 12. For families trying to line up schedules, the district’s public calendar for April 12-18 includes Spring and Group Pictures, NHS New Member Induction, a fifth-grade Folk Dance Extravaganza, a BPA meeting, FCA, an Easter Egg Hunt and FCCLA State Convention, with Good Friday on April 18 marked as a no-school day.

The feed has also carried other community-facing posts, including a thank-you to educators, a BPA fundraiser raffle and a weekly calendar entry for April 13-19. That mix shows the district using one channel to cover student life, parent logistics and employee recruitment at the same time, instead of scattering updates across separate notices.

The scale of those updates reflects how central the school system is in Guymon, the county seat of Texas County, which had a population of 21,384 in the 2020 census. The Oklahoma Historical Society traces Guymon’s school system back to 1902-03, notes a separate high school building built in 1917, and says a new Guymon High School was dedicated in 1954 before being replaced in 1974. The same history also says Guymon schools closed for a year during the Great Depression because of a lack of funds, a reminder that school operations here have long moved with the local economy.