Claremont School News
The first Claremont Unified School District Board of Education meeting of the 2025-2026 school year wrapped up in just 15 minutes. The abbreviated session saw the board, including President Kathryn Dunn, pictured here, hear the first reading of new board policies pertaining to awards budgeting, updated observances, and summer course crediting, and the approval of a consent calendar item explaining the district’s use of federal dollars. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
There will be a number of friendly new faces among the staff at Claremont schools this fall, including 30 teachers and nine classified staff members. On Monday, most of the certified staff members gathered for an orientation in the boardroom of the Richard S. Kirkendall. The following is just a selection of Claremont Unified School […]
A new Claremont endeavor was launched this summer, the nonprofit Middle Tree Academy, with the aim of making top-notch academic support and college preparation affordable for all students. A number of students have just finished attending Middle Tree’s inaugural summer camp, held on the Pomona College campus. In many cases, their participation was supported by […]
There’s a special kind of learning going on at Mt. San Antonio Gardens. Seventeen kids from CLASP (Claremont After-School Programs) are finishing up a month-long summer camp, held on the senior community’s scenic campus. On afternoons during the school year, CLASP provides homework help, supervision and enrichment to kids at risk of falling through the […]
The Claremont-based summer enrichment program Project THINK is celebrating its 35th year, with a rainforest theme and—after being ensconced for a few years in the Old School House—a return to the Claremont Colleges. Some 200 students, ranging from kindergartners to eighth graders, are enrolled in the first session, combining learning and fun on the Scripps […]
There is a Native American proverb that insists you can’t judge a person until you have walked a mile in their moccasins. With this in mind, a number of CUSD administrators and board members took to Claremont campuses on Wednesday, ready to follow in the footsteps of the district’s classified staff. The effort was part […]
On Monday students and staff at Mountain View Elementary school pulled a Rapunzel and let down their hair, only to have it summarily chopped off. The tresses, nearly 11 feet in all, will be donated to Locks of Love. The nonprofit will use the hair for high-quality wigs, given to kids who have lost their […]
A group of students at El Roble Intermediate School will soon be playing with their new dolls. No, it’s not one last childhood hurrah before they plunge into the teenage years. It’s a lesson on how tough it is to care for an infant, intended to impress upon the 8th graders that teen pregnancy is […]
The OLA Fiesta at Our Lady of the Assumption Church returns to Claremont for a 68th year on Mother’s Day weekend, May 8, 9 and 10. Among the most popular events in the city, the Fiesta attracts 15,000 visitors over the weekend to its renowned international food booths prepared by OLA’s own Hispanic Vietnamese and […]
Student leaders from Claremont’s San Antonio High School Associated Student Body (ASB) were challenged to create a business plan for using a Rotary district grant of $1000 to plan and stock the ASB store, designed and built last school year by the students with a Lefler grant from Rotary. The project provided a framework for […]
By definition, a library is a place where books, magazines and other materials are available for people to use or borrow. While the Claremont Library continues to serve the city in a traditional capacity, the scope of its reach extends far beyond the bookshelves and into the community itself. As a designated Family Place Library, […]
Claremont High School is going native, thanks to a landscaping project undertaken by students in Marizka Rivette’s AP environmental science class. As part of the CHS Waterwise Project, students have put in hours tearing out the grass and grading the land surrounding the administration office. They have watched and learned as the sprinklers were replaced […]
Sycamore played host to some pretty famous people on Wednesday, March 11 during the local elementary school’s annual Biography Day. From Egyptian royalty to Brazilian soccer legend Pelé, the students in Ann O’Connor’s second/third grade combination class channeled leaders who have made a mark on the world. The kids dressed as their chosen heroes, with […]
Eighth grade students from El Roble ended three days of safety training with the help of members from the Rotary Club of Claremont. The training included CPR, first aid, disaster preparedness, and other aspects to help the students be ready for any emergency. The school’s gymnasium was full of students as the entire eighth grade […]
Claremont High School is well represented, with over 30 students juried into the show, Art Reach, on view at the Millard Sheets Gallery at Fairplex. Hundreds of entries were submitted from area high school students. CHS students working in ceramics, computer graphic arts, photography, visual art, art production and 2-D and 3-D studio art, as well […]
Zip-lining above jungles and snorkeling through the reefs of Cancun is not a typical vacation itinerary for a young child. Most adults can’t say they have gone on adventures through Ireland and England. In the case of 10-year-old Jake De La Rosa, however, it is reality. The young Claremont resident has gone on a few […]
The envelope, please. Claremont Graduate University has named Angie Estes as the winner of the 2015 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. The prestigious prize, which is given each year to a mid-career poet who has achieved much and is expected to achieve much more, carries with it a $100,000 purse, making it one of the biggest […]