Head Football Coach Needed - We have reopened the position and would like those who are interested to please contact Cherie Leach at cleach@ridgedaleschools.org if you have interest in the position. Deadline for interest/resumes is Thursday, May 1st. Interviews will be set for Monday, May 5th.
🚀 Our Rocket team had the opportunity to dive into Bridges Out of Poverty—an eye-opening training that helps us better support every student and family. 🙌 Huge thanks to Marion Mentors for bringing this to our community and OSUM for hosting! #LoveYourCity #LoveYourSchool #SmallDistrictBigThings
🚀 Fueled Up Friday is back this week! Students will dive into hands-on activities like career exploration, enrichment sessions, training opportunities, and fun PBIS rewards! 🎉 We’re keeping the energy high and the learning even higher! 💥#FueledUpFriday #SmallDistrictBigThings
Future engineers at work! 🏗️🔧
Power Hours got creative as students designed, built, and tested their own rescue towers.
Problem-solving, teamwork, and innovation on full display! 🙌
#SmallDistrictBigThings #RidgedalePride #STEMChallenge
Please come support the Youth Softball teams as they are recognized and cheer the Lady Rockets Softball team to victory on Wednesday, 4/30 beginning at 5pm.
🎉 These Rockets are soaring high as proud members of the National Honor Society! 🚀
We recently celebrated our newest inductees at Ridgedale, and this Thursday, NHS members across the county will be recognized for their achievements.
#SmallDistrictBigThings #AcademicExcellence
Big things ahead for these future leaders! 🌟 Shoutout to Richelle, Annison, Michael, and Vincent for representing us in Youth Leadership Marion — you make us #RocketProud! 🚀🙌 #SmallDistrictBigThings #FutureLeaders
Engineering in action! 🏎️💡
During Power Hours, students turned pop bottles into race cars—designing, building, and putting their creations to the test!
Innovation + imagination = speed! 💥
#SmallDistrictBigThings #RidgedalePride #STEMinAction
Power Hours in full effect! 💬✨ Students opened up about dreams, passions, and plans for the future. They shared what they love, what they don’t, and what they hope to find in their future careers. Big conversations. Bright futures. 🌟 #RidgedalePride #SmallDistrictBigThings
Elementary students received their limo ride reward from the fall fundraiser lunch today! Thanks to Elite Limos and McDonald's on Main Street for all of your help in treating our students to this special treat!
Our afterschool Power Hours are making a big impact—and the Survival Club is leading the way! From building skills to building confidence, our students are thriving. 🌟 #RocketPride #SmallDistrictBigThings
Thank you to RES PTO (and all who support PTO) for the purchase of 8 additional bows for our 2nd and 3rd grade students to use in P.E.!
#rocketpride #smalldistrictbigthings
What a great showing for our high school track teams! The girls took 8th, and the boys took 1st out of 14 teams! #RocketPride #SmallDistrictBigThinga
The JH Boys Track Team took first place in their meet at North Baltimore tonight and the JH Girls took 3rd place.
Great job Rocket! 🚀
Finally, spring sports are rolling!
Saturday, we hosted the HS Dave Schorr Memorial Track Invitational. Our Rockets had a great showing with several medals and ribbons awarded. 🏆
Also, on Saturday our HS Softball team defeated Ridgemont in a league make-up game. 🥎
Tonight, our HS Baseball team defeated Temple Christian in an outstanding performance on the mound by Gabe Malo and great defense and hitting by the Rockets team! ⚾️
🎖️Congrats to Ridgedale's Good Citizen, Audri Barnett! Audri was recognized at the Captain William Hendricks Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution Youth Recognition Celebration last night. Audri was celebrated alongside other student leaders from Marion & Morrow counties. Way to represent Rocket Pride! 🚀🩵❤️
JH Track - Friday Night Lights Invitational is canceled for tomorrow night 4/11.
Ridgedale FFA hosted their annual banquet on April 6th. Many chapter and student accomplishments were recognized. Chapter Degrees, State Degrees, American Degrees, and Honorary Chapter Degrees were among the awards recognized. A special thank you goes to Mrs. Guthrie and the FFA students for putting on an amazing program to highlight the wonderful accomplishments of our chapter. We are lucky to have this phenomenal program to offer to our students here at Ridgedale!
Our 3rd, 4th, & 5th graders are running the PACER (Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Run) Test this week. PACER is a fitness test used to measure how efficiently the heart and lungs work during physical activity. A special shout out to the students pictured. They showed up voluntarily to see if they could beat their best PACER score. This shows the great dedication that our students have to be physically and mentally better! Great job Rockets!
ALL Ridgedale JH/HS Spring Sports scheduled for tonight 4/8 are canceled due to temperatures/wind chill!