High School -

Growing up in the small town of Quinlan, Arlene Holt was a three-sport athlete, which helped shape her passion for athletics, teamwork, and leadership.

She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of North Texas and her Master of Arts in Sports Management from the University of Central Arkansas. Coach Holt has spent the last 13 years teaching English and 11 years serving as a Varsity Assistant coach, where she's had the opportunity to develop student-athletes both on and off the court.

Coach Holt is passionate about creating a positive and encouraging environment where all students can succeed.

Welcome to Palmer! #PalmerProud

Congratulations to Lexey Maxwell! She has been accepted to United States Sports University!

Lady Bulldogs get the win over Rice 9-3 on Senior Night! Thank you Kenli, Peyton, and Marti for your dedication to the program over the last four years!

Great start to the day at county show. We are starting today with the market broiler show. We had two students Evelyn and Rosa Castillo showing today. Evelyn was Grand Champion Market Broilers and Rosa had the 5th and 6th place pens of broilers. Awesome job and thanks to all that helped hold birds in the show this morning

Interested in being a Palmer Belle? Tryout clinic starts Monday, April 6th in the PES Gym! Pick up a tryout packet in the front office for more information and reach out to Mrs. Havener with any questions you have! Khavener@palmer-isd.org

🎾 Congratulations to our Regional tennis qualifiers! Kinsli Plough, Noah Flores, Max Cunningham, and Jeremiah Flores

PHS Cafeteria Staff made cute bunny parfaits for breakfast this morning!

Track Schedule Change: Due to baseball and softball games being rescheduled to Wednesday, the track meet scheduled in Palmer tomorrow has been canceled.

It was a great day for some of our Palmer FFA Ag Mechanics students. Students participate in the Ellis County Livestock Show and Rodeo Ag Mechanics Build Off. They started with a pile of steel and a blueprint and had 8 hours to complete the build competing against 8 other teams . These young men worked hard and were named the 2026 Grand Champion Team and also won the Safety Award.

Last Monday we had around 40 ag mechanics students exhibit their projects at the Ellis County Livestock show and Rodeo. Students did a great job presenting their projects and had 19 blue ribbon projects. The following projects were exhibited in the non sale portion of the ag mech show. We had one group that was awarded the Division Champion for the shop equipment division with their shop table

Palmer ISD began participating in the Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) in 2023. TIA is a Texas Education Agency program that recognizes teacher effectiveness. After collecting and submitting 2024-2025 data, Palmer ISD is proud to announce the inaugural group of 24 teachers receiving TIA designations!
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⚾️ 🥎 Baseball/Softball Schedule Chage ⚾️ 🥎 Due to the potential for rain the baseball and softball games schedule for Thursday in Rice will now be played Wednesday, April 1st at 6 PM. There will be no JV games.

The students are excited and the Ag Teachers are already exhausted, but they'd sure enjoy seeing support from the Palmer community this week for the last week of the Ellis County Youth Expo! Today kicks off the animal exhibitions and yet another 40+ students exhibiting animal projects including breeding rabbits, market rabbits, broilers, market goats, market swine and steers/ heifers throughout the week! Ag Mech Build-Off is also going on today! 4 HS Ag Mechanics students will be working together to complete a full grill build in 8 hours! Come out and see us!

Check out the Ennis Daily News this week as it features an article about our CTE program in Palmer ISD! Great job Mrs. Vines and our entire CTE department! https://www.ennisdailynews.com/palmer-isd-has-magnetic-appeal-0

Here is the menu for March 30 - April 2!

💙💛FFA Banquet Info 🥇 🏆
Palmer FFA Banquet will be held at the MS Cafe at 6:30pm on 4/28/26!
Please see the flyer below to RSVP! Tickets will be paid for at the door, and paid attendees will be entered into a raffle for a custom fire pit at the end of the evening!

Please email kvines@palmer-isd.org, kchapman@palmer-isd.org or mmolan@palmer-isd.org with questions!

‼️ Also, don't forget to add pictures to the drive folder Mrs. Vines emailed out this week!

🥎 Softball Schedule Change 🥎 Due to the possibility of inclement weather the softball game against Grandview will now start at 5 PM.

⚾️ Baseball Schedule Change ⚾️ Due to potential rain this evening the varsity will play the first game at 4:30 this afternoon. The JV will follow at the conclusion of the varsity game.

Palmer Golf competed in the First Round of District today! Both the Boys A Team and Girls sit in 3rd Place. We will compete in the Final Round next Thursday at Thorntree!