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Karcher Back to School Newsletter

Posted Date: 8/04/25 (9:48 AM)
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Karcher Back to School Newsletter

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Welcome

Welcome Karcher Families, 

I hope this message finds you excited and energized just like the atmosphere at Karcher Middle School. We are so excited to kick off the 2025-2026 school year with a beautiful school and wonderful outside facility space! 

Burlington Area School District along with Karcher Middle School are excited about being Compassionate, Committed and Comprehensive to ensure a wonderful experience for all of our students!  

At Karcher our wonderful staff is Compassionate about our students.   We allow all students the opportunity to learn and be successful while maintaining positive, high quality relationships. We encourage students to try numerous classes, activities, clubs and athletics during their middle school years as an excellent part of the journey through adolescence. 

Karcher is Committed  to serving over 800 amazing students, with fantastic teachers and support staff who build and maintain high quality relationships with every student.  

Finally, we at Karcher are Comprehensive, with our rigorous curriculum which allows students to explore many options of coursework and our “house system” which allows a family atmosphere as students navigate their way through the middle school years.  


 
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Karcher School Guide

We have put together a comprehensive school guide that gives pertinent information about Karcher such as drop off and pickup information, late start Wednesday information as well as other very important items to Karcher which can be found here:
Karcher School Guide
 

Chromebook Information

  • Every student is issued a Chromebook. 
  • 5-12 students will take Chromebooks home nightly. 
  • Important: As part of registration, families are required to review and electronically sign that they have read and understand the Student Acceptable Use of Technology Guidelines. 
  • If a Chromebook is damaged, the damage needs to be reported. BASD will assess if the damage can be repaired by staff. If the damage is deemed intentional, the student and parents will be notified of specific charges. 
  • Additional information about computer use will be provided as the school year progresses.
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Important Reminders

  • Please send your child a water bottle each day. Water bottle filling stations are available at each school. Please label water bottles with your child’s name.
  • String bags or backpacks can be utilized to carry items around the school, a school issued locker will also be assigned and a lock provided. 
  • Cell Phones will be off and in the student’s locker or bag throughout the day, if a student needs to communicate home they should come to the office and utilize the school’s phone system. Please refer to the student handbook for more information.  
  • Parents, please reach out to myself or any Karcher staff member about getting involved in volunteering opportunities here at KMS. If you are interested you will need to fill out the School Volunteer form. 
  • The school website has other useful information such as staff directory, calendars, etc. which can be found here: https://karcher.basd.k12.wi.us/ 
 

New Attendance Options

We have a new option for reporting your student’s absence.  It is online through your Skyward account – it is no longer necessary for you to make a phone call, although you are always still welcome to do so.  In order to report an absence in Skyward:

  • Log in to your Family Access Skyward Account
  • Click Attendance from the links on the left-hand side
  • Click Absence Requests at the top 
  • Click on Add Request at the top, right-hand corner of the pop-up box
  • If your student will be gone the entire day, or multiple days, enter the date(s)
  • Choose a reason from the drop down list
  • Add any comments you wish – this is optional
  • If your student will only be gone a portion of the day, unclick the box marked All Day
  • Enter the times, for example:  
  • If your student will be leaving 20 minutes early, you would enter 2:30pm as the start and 2:50pm as the end time
  • If your student will be coming in 2 hours late, you would enter 7:20am as the start time and 9am as the end time
  • Choose a reason from the drop-down list
  • Add any comments you wish – this step is optional
  • Click Save
If your student has a medical appointment, please choose Personal.  Once your student brings in a doctor’s note, it will be changed to Medical.
 
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Karcher School Schedule:

  • 7:10am-2:42pm 
  • Monday-Friday

 

Karcher Open House: August 27th, 2025 (6:30-7:30pm)

  • Students should not bring any school supplies to the KMS open house
  • Students and families will meet with staff
  • Enjoy the beautiful facility

 
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Scheduling Message from the School Counselors:

The moment you’ve all been patiently waiting for is here, schedules are being released the last week in August.  All efforts were made to accommodate first choices and alternates, although in some cases, due to schedule constraints, this may not have been possible.  Please note that the only schedule changes that we will be able to make at this time will be those that involve an error (such as a class accidentally slated in multiple periods of the day).  

We’re excited for a great year - full of opportunities for academic and personal growth.


 
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Picture Day:

School Picture Day is October 1st, 2025
 
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Important First Week of School Information

Lastly, the first day of the school is Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025 for all 5th and 7th grade students.  The first day for 6th and 8th grade students will be on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025.  All students will come to school on Thursday, September 3rd. We will use the first and second day to acclimate all  students to the school year. 

Tuesday, September 2nd- 5th grade and 7th grade only
Wednesday, September 3rd- 6th grade and 8th grade only
Thursday, September 4th- All students report to Karcher


 
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Contact info

If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Phone numbers:
Main Line: (262) 763- 0190
Nick Ryan- Principal: Ext. 3002
Kim Carlson- Administrative Assistant Ext. 3000
Jon Nelson- Assistant Principal Ext. 3004
Stacey Steeples- Administrative Assistant Ext. 3001
Wendy Lyon- Dean of Students Ext. 3005