High School

A year after the pandemic canceled most proms, school districts around the country are considering whether they can once again hold the formal dance for seniors.

Connecticut is receiving an additional 288,000 COVID-19 vaccines this week, according to Governor Ned Lamont. With people 16 years old and older now eligible, the governor said soon he will start planning for parades, graduations and proms. “If you’re going to school, you got your cohort of friends, I would like to think we can have a nice prom this…

Schools across Connecticut are planning for what school activities like graduation will look like amide the ongoing coronavirus pandemic as people get vaccinated.

For the first time in more than a year, high school students in New Haven Public Schools had the option to return to the classroom for in-person learning. The superintendent, Dr. Iline Tracey, notified parents and wrote: “Recent data indicates that many of our students are not doing well academically, and attendance is the worst we have seen in a…

A teacher in Alice, Texas, promised one of his students that if the student showed up to class every day for two weeks, the teacher would get a mullet.

Security cameras captured a wild chase between animal control and a masked trespasser inside of North Texas high school.

With no full-contact high school football in the fall, many student-athletes won’t have the chance to show colleges what they can do and potentially earn a scholarship. On Saturday, St. Joseph hosted a combine to give athletes the chance to record their times and measurements. “We’re not going to have the film to show our colleges so this is...

Students have had to make some major adjustments in the classroom since the coronavirus pandemic struck last spring. For high school seniors there’s one more big change: the college admissions process. With SAT tests canceled, and college tours suspended, picking where they’re going to spend the next four years has never been harder for some students. NBC Connecticut spoke...

The Valley Regional High School in Deep River is closed to students and non-essential staff this Tuesday and Wednesday after two students tested positive for COVID-19, according to Regional School District 4 Superintendent Brian White. In an email sent to the school community, the school announced they will be closed on Sept. 8 and 9. Instead, students and staff will…

Band camp is underway at East Lyme High School, as the group prepares for a season like no other. “Not at all, but the students are having fun with it and they are making music in the process,” said Angelica Fadrowski, the school’s band director. Fadrowski said that instead of competing in person, the band will compete virtually this...

Advocates have made strides in getting Native American symbols and names changed in sports, but they say more work needs to be done mainly at the high school level.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a report on Wednesday with recommendations on how districts should prepare to reopen schools.

“There’s obviously some rivalries, pretty much anything we do that’s the same it’s a rivalry,” said Matthew Consorte, reflecting on his relationship with his identical twin brother Michael. From sports to cards to video games, the two are each other’s best rival. “We want to be better than the other person,” added Matthew. The twins carried the same fighting...

We’ve all used our library card to check out books, but did you know that many libraries offer a ton of awesome freebies? From online classes to free museum passes, find out what extra perks you can get from your local library.

Identical lawn signs have been popping up in front yards across Ledyard and surrounding towns. The signs show the Ledyard High School logo, enclosed in a heart. The year, 2020, is written at the bottom. “The goal was to spread the light,” said Principal of Ledyard High School Amanda Fagan. “To bring a little bit of joy to these seniors…

Signs celebrating each student in the class of 2020 appeared on the lawns of Ledyard seniors overnight

The halls at Ledyard High School are quiet and they probably will be for quite some time, but a group of students is showing that distance will not keep them from coming together. All 20 of the students in Ledyard High’s Chamber Choir recorded an arrangement of Billy Joel’s ‘And So It Goes’ virtually. Director of choral activities at...

Let’s be abundantly clear — you were robbed, and it’s unfair. If you’re upset, then you should embrace those feelings. Commiserate with one another. Some folks will downplay the situation because they won’t know what it feels like to have their senior year stripped at the last moment.

A student and a police officer were wounded Tuesday morning in another shooting at a Wisconsin high school, after the officer confronted the armed student. The shooting happened at Oshkosh West High School. The student and the officer were wounded and have been taken to hospitals, Oshkosh police said.