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The Hopkinton school budget has been tentatively pared down by $780,316 from the amount supported by the School Committee and Select Board two months ago, in the wake of the economic upheaval from the COVID-19 crisis. The new proposed budget totals $51,206,402, for an...
The Hopkinton High School Visual Arts Department has posted its Honors Arts Exhibition online, after the live showing was canceled in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. From the HHS Visual Arts Department: The annual Hopkinton High School Honors Exhibition is a...
After seven years as an assistant principal at Hopkinton High, Josh Hanna said he is excited to take on the new challenge of leading Franklin High School as the new principal. “This was obviously a professional goal of mine, to get to the point where I could be the...
Hopkinton High School's plan for a rolling rally car parade to celebrate the Class of 2020 on Saturday, May 30, was approved by the Select Board on Tuesday night, and principal Evan Bishop shared some additional details for the event. The parade will leave the high...
A $33,000 state grant will allow Hopkinton schools to replace 11 water fountains that were shut down after lead was detected in them. Water bottle filling stations will be purchased and installed using the grant, which is provided through the Massachusetts Clean Water...
At the Massachusetts Science & Engineering Fair, Hopkinton High School students Sreeja Bolla and Archita Nemalikanti received a first-place award and won the Sanofi Genzyme Award, presented to the winner of the entire fair, for their project titled NeoHb: A...
The $52 million school budget approved by school and town officials just weeks ago has gone up in smoke, victim to an economic crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic. “We will need an entire redo of the Hopkinton Public Schools Budget for FY21,” superintendent Dr....
The news that Hopkinton schools, like the rest of the state, will remain closed through the end of the school year “creates a sense of loss for all of us,’’ Superintendent of Schools Carol Cavanaugh said. “The loss of classroom community sits heavily on us,’’ she...
At his COVID-10 press conference on Tuesday afternoon, Gov. Charlie Baker announced that Massachusetts schools will remain closed throughout the end of the school year. Remote learning will continue. "It’s the right thing to do with the facts on the ground," Baker...
Hopkinton schools continue to receive strong marks from national ratings organizations, as U.S. News & World Report placed Hopkinton High School third in the state for 2020. Superintendent Carol Cavanaugh shared the news with the schools community Tuesday morning,...
The School Committee voted at Thursday’s online meeting to eliminate April vacation, meaning the final day of school is scheduled for June 17. Superintendent Carol Cavanaugh recommended the change. “Because we started our remote instruction sort of full force on the...
Hopkinton’s Brittany Power, a student at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, spent part of her winter break participating in a volunteer service trip through the college’s Service and Solidarity Missions Trips Program. Power, a nursing major, co-led a...
Hopkinton High School has assembled a robotics program worthy of the national recognition it has received. But at its roots, or in this case circuits, the program’s ultimate goal is to help its students be competitive in everyday life. “Robotics at HHS will develop...
Hopkinton High School students showed they meant business at the state leadership conference for the Business Professionals of America held Feb. 29-March 2 at sites in Framingham and Marlborough. HHS junior Shreya Thalvayapati was elected state secretary of the...
Hopkinton schools were scheduled to begin a remote learning plan April 6 that will include new instruction, in addition to reviewing prior lessons and providing enrichment as is currently being done, Superintendent of Schools Carol Cavanaugh told School Committee...
It hasn’t taken long for Sterling Worrell and a group of Hopkinton High School students to get the school’s drone club off the ground. A vision from the school’s director of technology, Ashoke Ghosh, quickly became a reality when Worrell agreed to oversee an...
The Hopkinton Public Schools bus application period for Grades 7-12 for the 2020-21 school year is open. The deadline to register is May 1. The district provides transportation for students in Grades K-6. Those in Grades 7-12 who wish to ride the school bus must have...
In a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, Gov. Charlie Baker announced that all schools in Massachusetts will remain closed through April, with a tentative reopening set for Monday, May 4, as the state...
The University of Massachusetts released its list of students who made the dean’s list for the fall semester, and a number of Hopkinton residents were on it. They include Freeman Alfano, Hayden August, Kalina Bergmann, Haley Bernardo, John Buday, Olivia Coelho,...
Town taps into Legacy Farms HCA to help make ends meet By a 3-2 vote, Hopkinton School Committee members on March 12 approved a fiscal year 2021 budget of $51.9 million, a reduction of $323,000 from the amount the school district had requested but more than the town...
