Principal's Update 3/6/26
School Instagram at lhsbluedevilnation
LHS Families’ Help Cheat Sheet on the school website here.
Play Performance
After several weather-related delays the LHS Theater Company will be presenting their competition play “The Great Ignored” Thursday the 12th at 7 PM.
New Partnership with MART Buses
We are thrilled to announce a new partnership with MART!
This collaboration brings an essential resource to our students: a dedicated MART shuttle service from Monument Square directly to the High School.
The shuttle will operate Monday through Friday with the following schedule:
· Morning Trips: 6:50 AM and 7:15 AM
· Afternoon Trips: 2:30 PM and 3:15 PM (specifically for students attending after-school tutoring)
This is a fantastic opportunity, and we strongly encourage all eligible students to take advantage of this convenient transportation!
Parent/Guardian Prom Information
With prom and graduation season upon us, we are approaching a fun and exciting time for students and their families. We want to send this letter to urge you to do all that you can to make it a happy and safe time for your teen.
It is important to remember that it is a crime to provide alcohol to those under the age of 21, even at a supervised party at your own home. It is also important to know that if you choose to host a party where you serve alcohol to those under the age of 21, you can be held liable if one of your guests drinks alcohol and harms themselves or others while impaired. Even if you are not actively providing alcohol to underage drinkers, it is a dangerous choice and illegal to harbor or allow for teen drinking parties in your home.
Each year, we lose far too many of our teenagers to motor vehicle crashes, with an increase in alcohol-related traffic fatalities on prom and graduation weekends. As a parent or guardian, you have the opportunity to help ensure the safety of your children and others by helping them make the right choices around drinking and driving.
You are the most powerful influence in your child's life. It may not always feel like it, but research consistently shows that regarding serious issues like safety and substance use, students listen to their parents more than anyone else.
Please use that influence to stress to your teens that the choices they make can have lasting consequences. It is imperative that they understand that using good judgment—especially when it comes to drugs, alcohol, and distracted driving—can save lives
Please view the link regarding Social Host Liability and then fill out the short survey below.
Link for Social Host Liability Video Here
Link for Survey Here
The survey must be completed in order for your student to purchase their prom tickets. The survey is not asking you to agree with the laws, just that you acknowledge that you are aware of Massachusetts Host Laws.
MCAS
On March 26 and 27 Grade 10 students will take the ELA MCAS. Although passing the MCAS is no longer a graduation requirement students are required by law to take the test in order to gather data on the school. Student perfromance on the MCAS is the primary way the state evaluates Leominster High School.
Encourage your student to do their best on the MCAS. The MCAS test is also how students qualify for scholarships such as the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship, awards such as the Seal of Biliteracy and Koplik Award, and MCAS scores can be on college and scholarship applications. We will also be rewarding students who put effort into the test through bonus points in their ELA class and entering them in a raffle.
Blue Devil Spotlight
We have a special edition Spotlight highlighting the cheerleading team before their trip to nationals!
Yearbook Sales
The yearbook is now available for purchase, please click on the link below to place your order.
BuyTheYearbook.com
Graduation Updates
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.
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
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 92.0% of students here per day.
If your student is sick, please keep them home, but if they are well please make every effort to get them to school and don’t let them convince you to give them a day off!
Lately attendance has improved!
Grade 9: 92.9%
Grade 10: 92.5%
Grade 11: 92%
Grade 12: 90.4% (best for the seniors in a long time I think!)
Next Week’s Schedule
Shop Week A
Monday: Day 1
Tuesday: Day 2
Wednesday: Day 3
Thursday: Day 4
Friday: Day 5
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.
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
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).
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