The Mexico High School speech and theater students have broken records at the Missouri State High School Activities Administration district Speech, Debate and Theatre competition for the second year in a row.

Both the One Act and Readers Theatre groups will advance to the state competition with perfect scores from the judges.

In addition to the group performances, the school will send 6 individual qualifiers to the competition. They include Andrew Kristofferson, Riley Given, Leon Brown, Kylie Yeast and Brook Ransom.