The School Committee announced it will hold weekly Zoom office hours leading up to the start of the school year to provide an opportunity for the community to ask questions, raise concerns, or provide feedback on school matters. Each meeting will be hosted by two...
The state commissioner of education hopes students can return to school this fall on a full-time basis, a 180-degree change from his previous inclination to encourage a combination of remote learning and brick-and-mortar return, superintendent Carol Cavanaugh told...
The Hopkinton Reentry Group met for the first time Tuesday to discuss how to reopen schools this fall. Different ideas were discussed, but one factor is certain: Schools will look very different than the traditional model. “We begin with the premise that the...
Laura Theis was named interim assistant principal at Hopkinton High School, the school announced Tuesday. Theis fills the spot vacated by Josh Hanna, who left to become principal at Franklin High School. According to her bio on the HHS website, Theis came to Hopkinton...
Hopkinton’s Jonathan DeMarco recently received a 21st Century Leaders award from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The award recognizes students who have demonstrated exemplary standards of achievement, initiative and social awareness. Recipients have...
The long-delayed Hopkinton High School Class of 2020 graduation ceremony is scheduled for Sunday, Aug. 2, beginning at 10 a.m. The event will be held at Chick Welch Field at David Hughes Stadium (the HHS football field). Rain date is the following day at 10 a.m. The...
Youngsters might not be able to visit an amusement park this summer, but they can build one. For the first time this summer, youngsters can participate in a Hopkinton Lego Masters competition. In this inaugural event, Hopkinton youth and school employees’ children in...
Two of the three school construction projects that were approved at Town Meeting last year have begun, and the third is expected to start soon. The town approved four modular classrooms for Elmwood and Hopkins and six permanent classrooms for the high school in an...
Massachusetts Commissioner of Education Jeffrey Riley on Thursday delivered his much-anticipated report addressing the possibility of schools reopening in the fall. While Riley noted there will be more updates and that schools should be prepared for the possibility of...
The following email was sent to the schools community on Tuesday. Dear Hopkinton Families, Recently, the High School and Middle School Administrations received information from members of the school community alleging that a few students, ranging from HMS to HHS, made...
As Hopkinton awaits word from the state of how school reopening will be handled, a new committee is being formed to transform the guidance into reality. The district is organizing a Reentry Advisory Group tasked with helping to ensure the fall reopening goes smoothly,...
Emma Lucy used two common household items, an iPad and a glow stick, to create a national award-winning piece of art. Inspired by a digital art theme of creating light in a dark room, the Hopkinton High School sophomore used her iPad on “long, slow exposure” to...
As the school community awaits a reentry plan from the state education department for the upcoming school year, School Committee members at their June 4 meeting unanimously approved a new budget that increases spending by 6.6 percent over the current budget. The new...
Hopkinton Public Schools superintendent Carol Cavanaugh emailed the schools community Wednesday morning, as Black Lives Matter protests continue to take place in cities and towns across the nation — including Hopkinton, which held a vigil on the Town Common Sunday...
Newborns bring new discoveries, new challenges, new adventures. Sometimes they even bring new inventions that can improve the lives of other babies and their parents. That was the result when Hopkinton High School sophomore Archita Nemalikanti welcomed a baby sister...
On Saturday the Hopkinton High School Class of 2020 finally got its chance to celebrate with a rolling rally through the streets of Hopkinton. The parade started and ended at the high school, passing all...
The Hopkinton High School graduation parade starts at 1 p.m. today. Click here for details. Below are some photos from yesterday and this morning, as the town prepared for the event.
Superintendent Carol Cavanaugh is encouraging Hopkinton residents to line the streets tomorrow to cheer on the Hopkinton High School Class of 2020 during its rolling graduation parade. The event falls on the same weekend when graduation exercises originally were...
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...
