Principal's Update 1/23/26
School Instagram at lhsbluedevilnation
LHS Families’ Help Cheat Sheet on the school website here.
Report Cards
Report cards will be posted on January 28 and can be seen at https://ma-leominster.myfollett.com/aspen-login/?deploymentId=ma-leominster
Early College
Parents of Current Sophomores and Juniors,
We are excited to share that applications are open for Leominster High School's Early College Academy program for next academic year (2026/2027). Completing the application is the first step in being eligible to register for college courses while still in high school. Early College Academy (ECA) is a partnership between Leominster High School, Mount Wachusett Community College, and Fitchburg State University. The colleges bring professors to the high school to teach classes during the regular academic day; or, students have the opportunity to take classes at one of MWCC's campuses. By participating in Early College, students earn FREE college credits, build confidence in their academic skills, and get acclimated to college policies and programs. This, in turn, makes the transition to college smoother and allows students to be truly prepared for the next stage in their education.
The Application Process
Students complete an Early College application through the MWCC application portal. Once the application is received, it will be reviewed by the LHS Early College team to determine eligibility for college courses. Applications are evaluated based on multiple measures, meaning there are many ways a student can be eligible for courses. For that reason, we encourage ALL interested students to apply.
You are also invited to attend a virtual Early College Information Session next Tuesday, January 27th and 6:30 PM. Here is the link for that meeting: https://meet.google.com/jds-wkdr-ips
To complete an application, students take the following steps:
1. Open this link to the MWCC application portal: https://mwcc.my.site.com/application
2. Click "Sign Up" and create your account
3. Start a new Early College/Dual Enrollment application. Select "Early College Academy" for Application Type and "Fall 2026" for Year.
4. Answer all questions on the application. At the end, click "Review" and "Submit."
*Application support sessions will run out of the Media Center on Tuesday January 27th and Monday February 2nd.
*Priority application deadline is February 3rd. Students will be notified of provisional acceptance by February 5th.
LHS and Early College Course Selection will start on Friday February 6th. Students who are provisionally accepted into Early College will be able to select which college courses they want to take for Semester 1 and Semester 2. MWCC and Fitchburg State offer some great course options that cover a variety of subject areas, including Writing, Psychology, Criminal Justice, Sociology, Education, Business, Biology, Philosophy, and Government. Students will work with their school counselors to ensure all graduation requirements are met through high school and college courses.
If you have any questions, reach out to your student’s guidance counselor.
Graduation Update
Families, please remind your seniors to do the following:
Stop by the Main Office to verify your full legal name and ensure it is spelled correctly for graduation materials.
Order your cap and gown: https://jostens.co/leominster-hs-graduation
Wearing a cap and gown is mandatory for the graduation ceremony. You only need to purchase the Graduation Kit ($47.50). All other packages are optional and may be purchased at your discretion. All cap and gowns will be delivered in bulk to the school in May. Options that were purchased will be delivered directly to your homes.
Check the Scholarship Google Classroom for available opportunities. A reminder with the invitation and classroom code was sent on Friday, January 9th, by Ms. Leblanc.
Fill out the Friends & Siblings form if you are interested in being in the yearbook. This Form is due February 27th Link: https://forms.gle/JKnZ3uiB6z2HykUH7
Fill out the Superlatives form for the yearbook. This Form is due March 6th https://forms.gle/ybrmC641adQApYLZ9
Keeping Kids Safe Online Seminar
The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts will be hosting a Webex Webinar Keeping Kids Safe and Secure Online: A Project Safe Childhood Presentation for Parents. The webinar will take place on the evening of Tuesday, February 3rd at 6:30 pm in a partnership between the United States Attorney’s Office and Homeland Security Investigations Digital Forensics/Child Exploitation/Cyber Crime Unit. The registration flyer is attached. Advanced registration is required, and the capacity of the Webex webinar platform is 1000. In the event we reach capacity, those who are unable to register can email USAMA.PSCOutreach@usa.doj.gov to be put on the list for the next webinar. Registration can be done through the link below.
Webinar topic: Keeping Kids Safe and Secure Online: A Project Safe Childhood Presentation for Parents
Date and time: Tuesday, February 3, 2026 6:30 PM | (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Register link:https://usao.webex.com/weblink/register/r83f7d49f6565b65bce8bb420f1cfef7c
The webinar will bring awareness to the dangers children face online today and will educate adults how to keep children safe online. The webinar will not be recorded. In the event someone is not able to attend on February 3rd, we hope to host several more throughout the school year.
Attendance
Good attendance at school is incredibly important; nothing else we do matters if your student isn’t here. So far this year we are doing better than last year, with an average of 92.2% of students here per day.
If your student is sick, please keep them home, but if they are well make sure you make every effort to get them to school and don’t let them convince you to give them a day off!
Freshmen: 93.1%
Sophomores:92.7%
Juniors: 92.2%
Seniors: 91.0%
Drop-off and Pick-up Procedures
For the safety of our students, please follow these guidelines for student pickup and drop off
LHS
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. PLEASE DO NOT DROP OFF IN THE STAFF LOT THAT IS ALONG GRANITE STREET. There is a lot of pedestrian traffic through here and dropping off students here creates hazards.
CTEi
Parents are not permitted to pull into the half-circle driveway between 7:10 am and 7:30 am. The half-circle will be designated as one-way traffic only.
Parents are not allowed to drive behind our buildings for drop-off or pick-up during school hours (7:00 am – 2:30 pm).
Next Week’s Schedule
Monday: Day 6
Tuesday: Day 7
Wednesday: Day 1
Thursday: Day 2
Friday: Day 3
Tutoring Center
The LHS tutoring center is back up and running every day after school except Wednesday. Your student can stop by to get some help with school work or some space to get homework done.
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 and Grades:
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