All three elementary buildings will celebrate theater and literacy in May 2023 through a shared theater performance and book celebration.

This grant evolves the high school’s Digital Media Production class and its capabilities to efficiently produce quality video/audio media projects that highlight achievements of Highland students and staff.  (Watch the video)

Beginning with Mrs. Yu’s third grade class, Sharon Elementary students will learn to plan, write, and produce a weekly recorded announcement to highlight students, staff, and events in their school.

A new set of bass pans and another cello will be commissioned to provide more opportunities for kids to play in the popular new Highland High School Steel Drum Band.

Fourth, fifth and K-5 intensive needs students at Granger Elementary are submerged in the diverse culture of island music, learning instruments and playing techniques with the University if Akron Steel Drum Alumni Ensemble.

This grant provides students Social Emotional Learning opportunities through small group art projects, an A.L.L. small group speaker series, and two, whole-school, interactive art installations, the first one titled “I Matter Because.”

Highland High School welcomed New York Times bestselling author Jeff Selingo for a free parent session offering insights into the college admissions process from his latest book. Selingo also spoke to HHS Counselors and to students on assessing their strengths and matching with their best schools.

The Baker Family funded this initiative, now in its ninth year of increasing college attainment through college access and success advising, financial aid counseling and scholarship services with appointments at the high school for students and parents.

With WEB, students help students succeed. Members of the 8th grade class are extensively trained as WEB Leaders to be positive role models and motivators who guide 6^th graders to discover what it takes to be successful in middle school.

These wheels provide cutting edge technology and mechanisms for our robotics members to use in STEM-oriented tasks and include modern sensors which will allow our team to sense position and travel, program automatic movements without human input, and will provide a complex and limitless source of projects, experience, and creative outlets in engineering tasks.

Useful and effective tools like Arduino electronic development boards, their parts and sensors as well as the 3D printer and its parts cover all the basics needed for a new STEM Club to helps expand students’ interests by building projects that start with the basics and end with complex builds.

Adding copper tape, mini motors and other specialty markers and materials to the art room challenged students to design and construct their very own art-creating machines.

Students from our sister schools in France and Spain visited our school district and spent time sharing their cultures by living with families in our community. These guests engaged with students from each of our buildings through a series of visits, field trips and academic programs.

Funding is provided to Highland students who need financial assistance with travel expenses. To date, more than 200 Highland students and staff have had the opportunity to travel abroad through the Intercultural Program.