Claremont School News
Claremont High School recently earned bronze in the Advanced Placement School Honor Roll, which offers schools with AP programs bronze, silver, gold, and platinum distinctions, “recognizes schools whose AP programs are delivering results for students while broadening participation,” according to a news release at apcentral.collegeboard.org.
The Claremont High School varsity cheer team is pictured here in December after claiming first in the “show cheer” and “game day” categories and overall grand champion at the World Class Championship California Crown competition in Pomona.
The Claremont Colleges’ women’s rugby team, the Claremont Foxes, begin their spring 2026 Division I Pacific Desert Rugby Conference season at 11 a.m. Saturday, January 17 against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo at Claremont McKenna College’s Parents Field, 690 N. Mills Ave., Claremont.
Jared Sedlis spends his lunch breaks doing jumps — axels, salchows, lutzes, flips and loops — at an ice rink 15 minutes from Pomona College. As a competitive figure skater and full-time student, the Birmingham, Alabama, native can’t afford to waste a minute. Photo/by Jeff Hing
Comedy magician Chipper Lowell brings “Step Right Up: A Ridiculous Trunk Full of True Tales and Fake Magic” to Citrus College’s Haugh Performing Arts Center, 1000 W. Foothill Blvd., Glendora, at 7 p.m. Saturday, January 17.
Later this month, 17-year-old Max Leeper will trade the maroon and white of Claremont High School for the cherry and silver of the University of New Mexico, colors fitting of his life’s next chapter. He completed high school a semester early this fall and signed a letter of intent last month to play football at UNM in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Now he’s about to travel some 760 miles east begin the next chapter of his young life as a Lobo freshman majoring in business administration. Photo/courtesy of CUSD
If there’s one Claremont High Schooler who’s having one heck of a start to their senior year, it’s Joy Cheng. The student-athlete recently learned she had won a full-ride scholarship to Princeton University, adding to this year’s successes as captain of CHS’s cross-country team, which recently won Palomares League and CIF-Southern Section titles. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
Pomona College has entered into exclusive talks regarding the possible purchase of Claremont Graduate University. “This collaboration would preserve CGU’s important role in the consortium while positioning both schools to innovate and thrive in an evolving higher education landscape,” read a post on Pomona’s webpage. Pictured here is CGU’s Harper Hall. Photo/courtesy of CGU
Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization, The Council on American-Islamic Relations, has decried Pomona College’s settlement of a federal Title VI investigation that alleged antisemitism at the school. CAIR California Executive Director Hussam Ayloush’s December 17 letter to Pomona College President G. Gabrielle Starr, which names several areas of disagreement and lays out the group’s suggestions for addressing its perceived shortfalls, is excerpted here. Photo/courtesy of CAIR
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened a Title VI investigation of Pomona College in August 2024 after the Louis D. Brandeis Center and others brought a complaint against the school alleging Jewish students experienced antisemitism on campus and the school failed to protect them. The following is a transcript of a December 17 email exchange with Brandeis Center attorney Deena B. Margolies. Photo/courtesy of the Brandeis Center
Christmas came early for two dozen elementary school students Saturday, including Edward Martinez, 3, pictured here with his mother Martina Moya, when elves with the Rotary Club of Claremont and Claremont High School Interact Club gave away 24 new bicycles at the 25th annual Rotary Club bike giveaway. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
Harvey Mudd College assistant professor of physics Eduardo Ibarra Garcia Padilla recently.
Claremont Unified School District’s Board of Education learned last week its current fiscal year’s financial deficit is now projected be $11,489,892, nearly double the shortfall district staff had predicted in June. Courier file photo
Claremont High boys soccer player Leonel Moran converts a penalty in the first half of Wednesday’s match with Diamond Bar, one of his two goals in the 3-1 home victory. Read on for a complete Claremont and Webb high school sports roundup. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
Cal Poly Pomona is among other California State University cohorts named in the 2025 California State University Economic Impact Report.
A mix of special and routine business played out at the November 20 Claremont Unified School District Board of Education meeting, including persons of the year recipients announced, including Jonathan Snapp (middle), pictured here, and a unanimous vote to spend $6.9 million for safety and security equipment. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
by Andrew Alonzo | aalonzo@claremont-courier.com The start of the school year is often a busy time for Claremont High School’s Lyle Mideiros. The 17-year-old, now in his senior year, juggles the demands of school work and teenage social life with the rigorous schedule brought by autumn’s cross-country and band competitions. Even so, he manages to […]