Superintendent's Message

Dear Newport Schools Parents, Families, and Staff,

There are just six full school days away from the end of the 2024-2025 school year on June 20th! Please remember that there will be no school on Thursday, June 19th as we celebrate Juneteenth. Friday, June 20th will be a full day and the last day of the school year.

While we’re just about at the finish line, we still need all of our parents and students focused on Attendance Matters, Every Day! Our Rogers freshmen, sophomores, and juniors are now taking their final exams and there are so many fun classroom and field trip activities happening at all of our schools. Why wouldn’t our students want to be here?! So let’s close out with strong attendance through June 20th.

I want to send a big shout out and congratulations to our Rogers High School boys’ lacrosse team who took home the Division 4 State Championship on Monday evening with a 10-7 win against Scituate at Brown University Stadium in Providence. Go Vikings! 🥍

Graduation is tomorrow evening at 6:00pm at Toppa Field, where our Rogers High School Class of 2025 seniors will proudly walk across the stage to receive their diplomas.🎓 This achievement is a testament to our students and your commitment as parents, guardians, and caretakers. It takes a village. Our teachers, administrators, paraeducators and all our staff in our building play a role each day supporting our students. So let’s all celebrate and be appreciative of our wonderful community and the support everyone gives to our students. Congratulations Class of 2025! We look forward to Thursday evening. I hope everyone enjoys a joyous graduation tomorrow evening!

A beloved tradition continued on Wednesday as our graduating Rogers seniors, adorned in their caps and gowns, returned to Pell and Thompson. They strolled through the familiar hallways, reconnected with their elementary and middle school teachers, and were met with enthusiastic high fives from Pell and TMS students. Senior Walk Through Day is a truly a wonderful tradition!

Both Rogers High School and Thompson Middle School recently held honor society induction ceremonies. Congratulations to our Rogers and TMS honor society students!!

TMS National Junior Honor Society

RHS National Honor Society

Last Friday, the Rogers concert band performed at the Great East Music Festival in Methuen, MA. They performed 2 selections during a tight 10 minute allotted time frame. Our Viking musicians ended up leaving with a silver medal! Afterwards, they were treated to a fun day at Canobie Lake Park. Congratulations and great job!

Rogers High School rising senior Brandon Wilson has helped to organize a summer Cybercamp as part of his senior project. This and other initiatives our students are taking show our Portrait of a Graduate (POG) commitment to leadership and real life responsibilities to our community. The camp is free to students entering grades 7-10 and will be a fun introduction to cybersecurity with classes led by CCRI professors and industry experts. See the flyer below for dates and to sign up. Let’s encourage our young people to participate and prepare for the future! Go NPS!!

So many great activities at Pell Elementary last week where students enjoyed bubble day fun outside, a visit from Newport Gulls players who read to students, and Thursday night’s spring concert. Thank you Gulls for visiting and great job to our young Pell musicians!

We are now in the process of moving into our beautiful new state-of-the-art Rogers High School, but there are many items we no longer need. That’s why we are opening up the old Rogers on June 30th from 8:00-10:00 am for a community tag and take. Come by to browse used shelves, chairs, office materials, books, etc. that you can tag and take home for free.

At Tuesday evening’s public meeting, the Newport School Committee voted to formally adopt a cell phone free policy that will go into effect next school year at all Newport public schools. We will have more to share about how this policy will be implemented later this summer. POLICY 5336: Cell Phones and Personal Electronic Devices

Join RENEWport on June 18th from 5:00-7:00 pm at Salve Regina University for their second World Cafe community conversation. Learn more are RSVP here.