ATTENTION PARENTS, GUARDIANS, AND STUDENTS

Healthy snacks will be served!

Interim Progress Reports were uploaded to FOCUS on Wednesday, September 14, 2022.  Please be sure to check your child’s FOCUS account periodically to ensure they are completing assignments.  If you have a concern, please be sure to contact the child’s teacher for the particular subject(s).  We are here to serve you and to help your child(ren) succeed! 

Interim Progress Reports will be available for view in FOCUS on Wednesday, September 14, 2022.  In addition to the progress reports, please be sure to check your child’s FOCUS account periodically to ensure they are completing assignments.  If you have a concern, please be sure to contact the child’s teacher for the particular subject(s).  We are here to serve you and to help your child(ren) succeed! 

Food Pantry

The next Share Your Heart FOOD PANTRY is scheduled for Thursday, September 22–Please contact Ms. Dorilus the Coordinator and our School Social Worker at dorilusn@leonschools.net if your family has a need or if you have questions

Students and parents should be able to view academic information in FOCUS now. Please note, due to limited space and class capacity, schedule change requests will not be honored. Parents and students, there are future changes that are inevitable as a result of test scores and student’s required courses for graduation. Therefore, your child’s schedule may change to ensure academic success. All schedules are reviewed by the student’s counselor, for accuracy and approval. Parents, guardians, and students, please be assured, we are working endlessly to review for consideration, every student’s course request and/or correction form that was submitted prior to the deadline. In the meantime, if you have any questions, please contact your child’s Guidance Counselor. We truly appreciate your patience, cooperation, and understanding as we continue to strive for academic excellence at Rickards High School. Welcome to our 2022-23 school year.

Parent Night

Please make plans to join us for our Parent Nights/Grade Level Meetings.  All meetings will begin at 6:00 p.m. in the cafeteria.  Please view the attached flyers for each event.  The dates are below:

• Freshmen Parent night: Tuesday, September 27
• Senior Parent Night: Wednesday, September 28
• Sophmore/Junior Senior Night: Tuesday, October 11

Healthy snacks will be served!

Parents, below, are VERY IMPORTANT DATES:

FOCUS

Students and parents should be able to view academic information on FOCUS now. Please note, due to limited space and class capacity, schedule changes will not be honored. Parents and students, there will be future changes that are inevitable, as a result of test scores and student’s required courses needed for graduation. Therefore, your child’s schedule may change to ensure academic success. All schedules are reviewed by the student’s counselor, for accuracy and approval. Parents, guardians, and students, please be assured, we are working endlessly to review for consideration, every student’s course request and/or correction form that was submitted prior to the deadline. In the meantime, if you have any questions, please contact your child’s Guidance Counselor. We truly appreciate your patience, cooperation, and understanding as we continue to strive for academic excellence at Rickards High School. Welcome to our 2022-23 school year.

WELCOME 8/12/22

Welcome new and returning students and parents! As James S. Rickards High School Assistant Principal of Curriculum, I feel honored to have the privilege of working closely with such an outstanding and dedicated school community! I am committed to continuing the success of every child, both academically and socially, through innocent classroom philosophy - where each child's good is discovered, cherished and protected.  Parents and guardians, I invite you to take an active role in your child’s education. It truly takes the village to raise our children. I look forward to working with you this year!

Our first few days of school have been awesome!  We have completed our scheduling process. Since we are towards the end of enrolling students for this school year, we are now working on balancing classes that are too large or too small. Therefore, students requesting schedule changes will be limited and situational only. Please see below for examples of acceptable and unacceptable schedule changes.

Acceptable schedule changes are:

• Remediation requirements according to the State of Florida law
• Transcript review for graduation requirements
• Incomplete schedule/ missing one or more periods.
• Schedule conflicts

Unacceptable schedule changes:

• Parents requesting certain teachers
• Student has changed mind about elective class(es)
• Students don’t like the teacher and/or the order of classes

If you have any questions about scheduling, please contact me at 850-488-1783 or e-mail our Guidance Counselors at RHS.Guidance@leonschools.net

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