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The Hopkinton High School Class of 2022 has a few fundraisers coming up as it looks to raise money for post-prom, the Gillette Stadium dinner celebration and the senior car parade. Update, May 1: The Chick-fil-A fundraiser originally scheduled for May 3 has been...
Jahnavi Prudhivi, a senior at Hopkinton High School and member of Robotics Team 2602H Hydra, said it is exciting to anticipate talking to judges about the process of transforming “just a bunch of metal pieces into a fully functioning robot.” “We’ll reminisce about the...
Like the Hopkinton High School and Hopkinton Middle School robotics teams, members of the Business Professionals of America Club from HHS will be in Dallas in early May. The 27 BPA students will be competing May 4-8 at the National Leadership Conference, which offers...
Following a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19, the Hopkinton Public Schools Music Department once again hosted and participated in the 2022 Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral Conductors Association (MICCA) Concert and Choral Festival the weekend of April 1-3....
At a brief meeting Thursday night, the School Committee voted not to participate in school choice for the 2022-23 school year. Hopkinton traditionally does not participate in the program, which would allow students from other districts to enter the local schools. The...
The School Committee at Wednesday’s meeting ratified three-year contracts for the teachers and custodians unions and a one-year contract for the school physician. Superintendent Carol Cavanaugh said that using an interest-based model for negotiations proved successful...
Hopkinton High School Principal Evan Bishop emailed the HHS community on Friday to announce that the boys locker room will be locked after school due to repeated behavioral problems occurring there. "I am disappointed to report that there continue to be issues in our...
A presentation about the efforts being made to address the needs of high-achieving learners in the district dominated Thursday's School Committee meeting. Superintendent Carol Cavanaugh noted that knowing each child as an individual learner is a priority in the...
March has been a busy month for the Hopkinton Public Schools Music Department. It’s only fitting, as the National Association for Music Education officially designates March as Music in Our Schools Month, a time for educators to raise awareness of the benefits of...
At a special meeting Saturday morning, the Select Board voted unanimously to have the two new School Committee vacancies placed on the ballot for the May 16 Annual Town Election. Joe Markey and Meg Tyler submitted letters of resignation to the town clerk on Tuesday,...
The School Committee held a special meeting Friday to officially announce the two vacancies created when Joe Markey and Meg Tyler announced their resignations earlier this week. Chair Nancy Cavanaugh said she was notified by Town Clerk Connor Degan on Tuesday at about...
Editor's note: Updated March 10 with the Select Board calling a meeting for Saturday. Joe Markey and Meg Tyler filed paperwork this week with the town clerk to immediately resign from the School Committee, and the committee called a special meeting for Friday to...
The Hopkinton Public Schools March concerts begin Monday (March 14) with the Grade 6 concert at the Hopkinton Middle School auditorium. It starts at 6:30 p.m. The Grade 7 concert is at the HMS auditorium on Tuesday (March 15) at 6:30 p.m. Grade 8 takes the stage at...
Hopkinton High School freshman Ananya Kumar won the 16th annual Central Massachusetts Brain Bee on Feb. 5 with a near-perfect score. She now is eligible to compete in the National Brain Bee in April. The Brain Bee, created by the Society for Neuroscience, is designed...
Following the recent revelation that students at Hopkinton Middle School have made “racist comments to one another,” Hopkinton Public Schools Superintendent Carol Cavanaugh and HMS Principal Alan Keller reached out to the community to share their plan to combat the...
Following recent issues of divisiveness, the School Committee had a midyear check-in of its norms and beliefs, part of its protocols and best practices for effective meetings. While at recent meetings some members expressed frustration with how meetings were run and a...
Superintendent Carol Cavanaugh announced Monday that the Hopkinton Public Schools will no longer require masking on school buses starting Tuesday. Windows will be kept open on the buses. "As always, any individual who wishes to continue to mask will be supported in...
Elmwood School is celebrating Black History Month with an art project conceived by a substitute teacher and adopted by the entire school of 600 students. Keri Patterson, a third-grade long-term substitute teacher, said she was thinking about a class project that would...
Hopkinton High School students captured 31 state-level awards in the 2022 Scholastic Writing Awards competition. Senior Kevin Gu led the way with 10 awards, including an American Voices Nominee, an honor bestowed on the top five writing submissions in the state, for...
There have been multiple issues at Hopkinton Middle School where students have made “racist comments to one another” this school year, Principal Alan Keller said Thursday during an appearance before the School Committee. Keller was appearing before the committee to...
