Principal's Update 11/25/25
School Instagram at lhsbluedevilnation
LHS Families’ Help Cheat Sheet on the school website here.
No School This Week
There is no school on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday this week for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Marching Band on TV
Enjoy this clip of the LHS Marching Blue Devils marching in the America’s Hometown Thanksgiving Parade in Plymouth, MA this past weekend
https://youtu.be/i5uwQ0AwW04
Just in Case on Buses
The superintendent sent out a notice yesterday about a possible strike by the bus drivers. Please remember that the buses are contracted by the school district and we do not have any say in negotiations between that company and their drivers. Nobody in Leominster Public Schools can resolve that issue.
If buses don’t run on December 1 and you drive your student to school we will open the flag pole entrance for student drop off and pick up as well.
We are looking to have grades 9 and 10 drop off and pick up at the front entrance of the school along Kingman Drive and grades 11 and 12 drop off and pick up at the flag pole entrance, but as long as you and your student have agreed on where you are picking them up it works for me. We need to avoid the student waiting at one entrance and the parents at another and it takes ten minutes to link up with hundreds of cars waiting behind you.
Pull up as far forward as you can.
Tell your student to wait outside, not inside the building so they don’t delay pick up.
Ski Club News
We're getting closer to
Important Dates Reminder:
Currently - Passes on sale.
11/26 - Deadline to Sign Up for Van Transportation with the school
12/2 - Pass prices increase
12/12 - Last day to order passes
1/5 - First day of Leominster High Schools programs
1/19 & 2/16-2/20 - No Programs, Holiday/School Vacation
Program Day: MON
Coordinator: DAVID LARSON
Parents Step ONE: Go to wachusett.com/schoolgroups
Parents Step TWO: Enter this code: LEHSC to access your program's form.
Parents Step THREE: Fill out the GC 25_Transportation Form by 11/26
Students Bringing in Personal Devices and iPads
LHS has banned all cell phones this year, which has been a great way to raise engagement and get students to learn without distractions, drama, and disruption.
BUT
Many students have started to bring in personal laptops and iPads. This allows them to circumvent everything we are trying to do to get kids off their screens. iPads allow them to do everything that they could do with their phone. School-issued devices have filters that try to block students from accessing unauthorized or unsafe sites which an iPad or personal laptop will not have. Per the student handbook students must complete school-assigned writing on their issued chromebook to attempt to prevent plagiarism, which the history functions on the chromebooks would allow us to discover.
So please don’t send your student to school with an iPad or personal laptop. It undermines everything we are trying to do to keep kids focused on school and from accessing things we don’t want to have access to do.
Senior Yearbook Parent Letters
Parents who wish to submit a parent letter in acknowledgement to their child may do so using this form. The parent letter will also include 1 photo of your child, and this letter will be featured in the back of the 2025 - 2026 yearbook. Cost per parent letter with picture will be $15.00.
Form Submission are due by February 27th, PAYMENT due by March 5th. Forms will be closed on February 28th, and any payments received after March 6th will not be accepted. Payments may be made by checks thru the mail, Cash may be dropped off at the CTEi office, in an envelope with parent and students name on front of the envelope. All checks must be made payable to: Graphic Communications Yearbook, CTEi, 122 Granite St., Leominster, MA 01453
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeKFr0sUPAlkVAdRgs3-ZwpvYhavpc1sW6QfPZuzt6OY6v5AA/viewform
Substitute Teachers Needed
LHS has need of a few people with a lot of patience and savviness to help us out as substitute teachers. Please fill out the application if you are interested: https://leominster.schoolspring.com?jobid=5382951
Next Week’s Athletic Schedule
https://arbiterlive.com/Teams?entityId=12673
Reminders
Damaged and Lost Chromebooks
We get a LOT of damaged and lost chromebooks and this gets to be very expensive for the district. If your student damages their chromebook through negligence or deliberate damage (it happens), we do charge for the replacement device just like we do if a student loses their textbooks. Do whatever you can to get them to be responsible for their chromebook.
Buses:
School bus routes are posted on the district website at https://www.leominsterps.org/.
You can also track the bus using the FirstView App.
Schedule:
Schedules are available in ASPEN. Your student can log in to ASPEN using their school google account username and password. You can log in at https://ma-leominster.myfollett.com/aspen-login/?deploymentId=ma-leominster
Student Pick Up and Drop Off:
Remember that 2100 people are trying to get into the school at 7:30 and there is construction around the city so plan to be a little earlier due to traffic. If you drive your student you can drop them off and pick them up at the main entrance of the school (not where the buses are). Pull up as far forward as you can.
Calling in a student absent
If your student is going to be absent call the school at 978-534-7715 as soon as possible. The absence line is option 1. If you get an auto-call that your student is marked as absent and you think they are at school, don’t panic. Sometimes they accidentally get marked absent (especially with a sub) and sometimes they cut class. Call the school and we will confirm they are not here.
School Attendance:
It is essential for you to get your student to school as much as possible. I am compelled by law to work to get your student to school as often as possible. Absences are excused by a doctor or dentist’s note, court appearance, college visit, driving license appointment. Vacations are not excused absences.
When a student gets five unexcused absences we will require a meeting with parents to make a plan to get them to school more often. Remember that students will need to make up time from unexcused absences at our Saturday Academy.
Student Dismissals
If you need to dismiss your student you can send them to school with a note to bring to the office when they get to school. Your student will receive a pass to be dismissed and can just check out at the office when it is time for them to go. You won’t need to come into the school and it’s much faster than coming in to dismiss your student.
We cannot do dismissals over the phone or by reading a text you sent to your student’s phone for safety reasons. Someone else could be impersonating you and we would not be able to verify it (this happens more often than you might think).
Joshua Romano
Principal