Greetings Hilsman Family,

Our students had an excellent week of testing. We are extremely proud of their focus and efforts during the tests.

Quick Reminders:

Students are required to put their phone and headphones in their lockers. Students cannot have the phone or headphone on them at any time during the day. Recently, there has been an increase in students who continue to wear their hoods in class and during transition. For the remainder of the school year, students may not wear a jacket or sweatshirt with a hood while in the building. If they must wear a hooded sweatshirt to school, it must be placed in their locker immediately after breakfast.

All cell phones, hooded sweatshirts and hooded jackets that are confiscated will be held in the front office for a guardian to pick up.

Thank you for your assistance and partnership.

TICKETS ARE ON SALE FOR $5.00

Parents: Important Information

Hilsman Health Center

Phone number: 706-546-7463

Open Monday-Thursday: 8am-4pm

Open Friday: 8-11:30am

Please call for an appointment for your child. At the Health Center, they will ask questions regarding

insurance, address, etc. that are unable to be answered by another person.

The nurse will make an appointment if there is an emergency involving your child after speaking with you and getting your permission.

Thank you for all you do to help our students show up and shine every day! As a special thank-you, for each attendance incentive your child earns, you are entered into a drawing for a gift card!

✨ Congratulations to our Quarter 3 Winners! ✨
🏆 Guardian of Jordan Villafuerte Guzman (7th Grade)
🏆 Guardians of Matinah Andani (7th Grade)

We appreciate you and your commitment to helping our students succeed! Keep up the great work — more chances to win coming soon! 🎟️🎁

Follow this link to see the counselors' corners with live links. Ms. Moore, Ms. Harrison, and Ms. Poole do an amazing job supporting our students!

Hello Panthers, please CLICK HERE to review the criteria that students must maintain in order to participate in many Hilsman activities. Please note: there was a minor update recently to this.

Was your student absent from school? Please use this form to notify us of an excused absence. Please note that excuses must be submitted within 5 days of an absence.

Hilsman Student Leaders Presenting

Please join us on Monday, May 5, 2025 between 10:00AM and 11:30AM for the first CCSD TEDed Student Talk presented by Hilsman Middle School 8th Grade Leadership students. Our leadership program has recently joined TEDed Students Talk to give students a platform for expressing and sharing their ideas with the global community. For the last five weeks, our 8th grade students were working on their Passion Project driven by their individual interest and curiosity. In the last three days, students were presenting their projects to the panel of judges from the CCSD.

We are proud to let you know that 29 projects were presented . The judges had a very difficult task to pick the top 12 projects and 2 speeches to be presented at the first TEDed Student Talk event. Please join us this Monday to support and celebrate our students, to mark this pioneering moment in the lives of the HMS students and watch the history in making.

Family members are warmly welcome!

Big shoutout to our amazing community partner, Johnny's Pizza! 🍕 Thank you for the partnership and for always bringing fun-filled events and exciting things. We’re so grateful to have you by our side! Stay tuned for more awesome collaborations ahead! 🙌 #CommunityLove #Partnership #ThankYou

• Breakfast: Breakfast starts at 8:05 am daily. Students can not bring outside food or drinks.
• Uniforms: Uniforms must be worn each school day including Fridays. The only exceptions will be designated dress-down days that will be announced by a school administrator. Note that students can wear a Hilsman spirit shirt with uniform bottoms on Fridays. CLICK HERE to review to Hilsman dress code.

• School doors open at 8:05 AM.

• Front Office Hours are 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM.

• Early Dismissal: Students may be checked out for early dismissal until 3pm. After 3pm, the front office staff is busy making sure all of our Panthers get home safely and efficiently.

• Bus Changes: To ride the bus home with a friend, parents/guardians submit the change to the front office in writing in the morning. Once our office staff verifies the information with a parent or guardian, the student will receive a pass to ride a correct bus.

Administrators:

• Principal Dr. Vaughan vaughank@clarke.k12.ga.us
• Assistant Principal Mr. Hussain hussainn@clarke.k12.ga.us
• Assistant Principal Dr. Watkins watkinsra@clarke.k12.ga.us

• Scheduling, Withdrawals, Records : Our registrar, Ms. Tillotson, at tillotsonc@clarke.k12.ga.us

• Nursing, medical, and medications: Nurse Kendra Vaughn at vaughnk@clarke.k12.ga.us

• 6th Grade Team: Ms. Andrea Kahl at kahla@clarke.k12.ga.us or Mrs. Allison Davis at davisa@clarke.k12.ga.us or Counselor Joy Moore at moorea@clarke.k12.ga.us
  
  

• 7th Grade Team: Mr. Joshua Truitt at truittj@clarke.k12.ga.us or Counselor Tikki Poole at poolel@clarke.k12.ga.us

• 8th Grade Team: Mr. Conor Naughton at naughtonc@clarke.k12.ga.us or Counselor Callie Harrison at harrisonc@clarke.k12.ga.us

• Uniform Support: Ms. Aaliyha Billings at billingsa@clarke.k12.ga.us

• Athletics: Athletic Director Daniel Culliver at culliverda@clarke.k12.ga.us or Assistant Athletic Director Kimberly Willingham at williamsk5@clarke.k12.ga.us

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Location: 870 Gaines School Road, Athens, GA, USA
Phone: 706 548-7281

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