Claremont School News

So why are all these El Roble students hopping around the school gym picking up pieces of paper off the floor? Each year about this time members from the Rotary Club of Claremont spend three days teaching students everything from first aid, to disaster preparedness, to CPR and more. It’s all part of Rotary’s Together […]

Upper grade students at Condit Elementary School try out the school’s brand new playground following a ribbon cutting celebration on Monday. The new play equipment, which includes slides, swings, a climbing wall and a sunshade, was officially unveiled just before morning recess. During the five month construction, most of the campus was fenced off and […]

El Roble physical education teacher Debbie Foster dons her turkey hat as she marks student’s wrists for each lap completed on Tuesday during the annual Turkey Trot at the school. The student’s had 16 minutes to run as many laps as they could in an effort to raise money for the school’s PE department. Last […]

Claremont High School Theater Department’s first show of the 2019-20 season, 26 Pebbles, debuts at 7 p.m. tonight at the Don F. Fruechte Theater for Performing Arts, with a repeat performance at 7 p.m. tomorrow.  Admission is free, but donations are accepted for the staged reading, which tells the story 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting. […]

Skylar Segura first met Brian Gaeta-Symonds during a routine open house at the city of Claremont’s Youth Activity Center in conjunction with the beginning of a new semester. Ms. Segura was doing her job as a human services supervisor, greeting visitors to the YAC and talking up the various programs, while Mr. Gaeta-Symonds was busy […]

Dillon Lopez reacts with a big smile as he discovers that he has been selected as the homecoming king during a rally on Friday in Memorial Park. The crowning of the king is the first event of a full weekend of homecoming events including the parade, football game and of course the dance. COURIER photo/Steven […]

Members of the Claremont High School choir rehearse some of the music they will perform during The Music of Motown show Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the CHS Theatre, 1601 N. Indian Hill Boulevard. The choir is raising money so that the concert singers can travel to New York in the spring to perform at […]

Change, it’s been said, is the only thing on which we can truly depend. Sometimes things go south, but more often they get better. One small step toward the light was achieved this month when students at Claremont’s Sumner Danbury Elementary School got access to their brand new, fully inclusive playground. “It’s been really wonderful […]

One of Claremont’s more interesting demographic anomalies is that a near equal percentage of the city’s population—34,478 at the latest census—are under 18 years of age as are over 65. Those numbers—18.5 percent minors and 16.5 percent seniors—don’t often interface; The kids are busy being kids, and the older folks are busy staying active and […]

Temple Beth Israel is hosting a celebration this Sunday to honor Deborah Pruitt for her 30 years of service to the preschool. Not only that, but a proclamation was issued by the LA County board of supervisors, which stated in part: “Since her leadership at the preschool began in 1989, Deborah has helped shape the […]

Dream jobs are hard to come by. Most folks toil in unfulfilling work, pay the bills and mark the days until their next vacation. Some though, get lucky, and their work and passion intersect. You can count El Roble Intermediate School’s new music director Jeff Brown among the fortunate few. “This is the job that […]

There are big things coming to Claremont High School—literally. Demolition of the old student center took place this week, making was for a new state-of-the-art facility. The student center will be completed in time for the graduating class of 2021. It will take the place of the previous center, in addition to taking up some […]

Nathan Han celebrates after receiving his diploma on Thursday during Claremont High School’s commencement. The graduates had almost perfect weather for the ceremony where 572 graduated from Claremont High, 17 from San Antonio High and 30 from Claremont Adult School. COURIER photo/Steven Felschundneff  

Senior Dorian Logue delivers a speech he called New Chapters, during an interfaith Baccalaureate for Claremont and San Antonio high schools on Sunday at Claremont United Church of Christ. The service featured music performed by the graduates, a speech from Reverend Donn Dirckx and a prayer for the graduates. The joint CHS, SAHS and Claremont […]

It’ll be a big moment for the roughly 580 kids who will receive their diplomas next week at Claremont High School’s graduation, but perhaps none will feel the emotional heft of the experience quite as profoundly as Alexander Harris. The 18-year-old will step across the stage, take his hard-earned degree, smile for the obligatory photo, […]

Anyone who ventured to the Village this weekend no doubt noticed that the Claremont Colleges were in the midst of their two-day graduation marathon. The festivities across the Colleges were complete with parents bearing gifts, smiling graduates and the various commencement addresses. Claremont definitely attracts well known and inspiring talent. However, the commencement addresses tend […]