North Star Goal
Every student, teacher, and leader will meet or exceed their academic growth goals.

School News & Updates

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Count Down to the Paw-lidays! 🐾

Countdown to 🐾🐾the Paw-lidays
Show your holiday spirit by participating in each December event! Earn one Paw-sitivity Point for each day you participate! Click image for Paw-lidays calendar!

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AJH Student vs. Staff Dodgeball Game

🎟Dodgeball Tickets will be sold during lunch on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday only next week.
💲Cost is $3.
🚫No tickets sold next Thursday or Friday.
📣Come cheer on your favorite team!

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RISD Voters Approve Bond 2025

During the November 4, 2025 election, voters chose to approve all three Propositions on the district’s $1.4 billion bond package.

The power of AVID Secondary is the ability to impact students in the AVID Elective class and all students throughout the campus. AVID Secondary can have an effect on the entire school by providing classroom activities, teaching practices, and academic behaviors that can be incorporated into any classroom to improve engagement and success for all students. 
AVID Excel works by accelerating language acquisition, developing literacy, and placing AVID Excel students on the path to high school AVID and college preparatory coursework. Emergent multilingual students (long-term English language learners) indicate that they want to go to college, but without a structured way for teachers and schools to address their specific needs, these students experience gaps in their academic preparation that stop them from entering a college preparatory course of study.