Claremont School News

Surrounded by friends and family, Kim Patterson, center, a licensed vocational nurse and health assistant at Claremont High School, was announced as the 2024-2025 classified employee of the year at Thursday’s Claremont Unified School District Board of Education meeting. She has been with CUSD since 1992. Photo by Elaine Kong/CUSD

The Oakmont Elementary Owls treaded water with the Sumner Elementary Dolphins before finally taking home the win with a score of 14-7 in the 14th annual Superbowl game held Wednesday […]

Vista del Valle Elementary and Oakmont Outdoor School are helping students focus on character building. Both schools are participating in “Project Champion” in connection with two-time Olympic medalist Bryan Clay. […]

One attribute great school librarians share is the desire to instill love of books in their students. Such was the theme at a recent Vista Del Valle Elementary School assembly […]

Professional hockey player Brian Cooke plays street hockey with a group of fifth and sixth grade students on Friday at Oakmont Outdoor School in Claremont. Mr. Cooke’s visit was part […]

The Thespians of Claremont High School are ready to talk with their production of “The Locker Next 2 Mine” addressing the topic of suicide and mourning. Playwright, Jonathan Dorf’s play […]

This year was marked by the Claremont Unified School District saying goodbye to valuable land deemed surplus, including the closing of escrow on a large parcel sold last year and […]

Dwarak Reddy, with his debate partner Nathan Morgan seated, responds to a question from the other team during the annual Claremont High School debate competition on Thursday at Taylor Hall. […]

Claremont High School Principal Brett O’Connor reads from the children’s book “How Santa Got His Job” on Saturday during a Claremont Educational Foundation fundraising event at Barnes & Noble Booksellers […]

Claremont’s littlest bookworms have found home just in time for the holidays with the recent soft reopening of the Claremont Public Library’s children’s section. The library welcomed local kids to […]

It was thanks and more thanks last Friday when the San Antonio High School community celebrated their annual Thanksgiving Feast. Students and employees queued up for a meal of turkey […]

The Thursday, November 21 school board meeting represented the last time board president Mary Caenepeel and board member Jeff Stark would take to the dais to deliberate the future of […]

As integral as computers have become to our daily lives, we often forget the experts who help us navigate this brave new world: technical support staff. This crucial role was […]

At the last school board meeting, Claremont Educational Foundation President Richard Chute was pleased to present a hefty $201,000 check to the Claremont Unified School District. The oversized check was […]

Great struggle affords great opportunity to those willing to seize it. This is the guiding principle that led Carol Corwin and her husband, Pete Bekendam, from their battle with alcoholism […]

Hiram E. Chodosh, who was inaugurated as the fifth president of Claremont McKenna on Saturday, has some distinct goals as he takes the reins of the prestigious liberal arts college. […]

The Reverend Dr. Kah-Jin Jeffrey Kuan, who will be inaugurated on Wednesday, October 23 as the seventh president of the Claremont School of Theology, is looking forward to helping the […]