Hamilton City Schools | Hamilton Freshman School

Summer School Information

Elementary Summer School will be held from June 9th thru July 3rd from 9am until Noon. Bus service will be available for students. Adams and Monroe students will attend classes at Adams Elementary School Buchanan and Grant students will attend classes at Grant Elementary School Hayes and Pierce ... Read more »

Freshman School Year-End Awards

As part of our mission, we feel it is important to celebrate the academic achievements and successes of our students. Throughout the year, we have recognized honor roll, perfect attendance, students-of-the-month, academics and good behavior. Our Blue Star Card program has been a big hit this year. ... Read more »

HFS Raises $9,000 for Leukemia Lymphoma Society

The HFS student body participated in our 3rd annual Pasta for Pennies Campaign. During this three week event, the students worked hard to raise money for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society. Our student body was able to raise $9,000.00 through a variety of efforts. We collected money in front of Wal-Ma ... Read more »

Awards Night

We will be recognizing the achievements and successes of our students at the fourth annual Freshman Awards Program to be held on Thursday, May 22nd from 7:00-9:00 p.m. We are notifying you early, so you can mark your calendar. A variety of awards will be given: Departmental awards,perfect atten ... Read more »

Spring Fever

Spring is just around the corner. As it arrives, students begin to study less due to outside activities and other events. We encourage all parents to stay on top of your child’s academic work during the end of third and all of fourth quarter. Fourth quarter grades only determine athletic eligibil ... Read more »

Blue Star Cards

Through discussion with students and staff, we have created a new program to recognize and award the achievements of our students on a daily basis. Any staff member can issue a blue star card to a student for success in the following areas: improved attendance, performance in the classroom, improve ... Read more »

Market Day

The Booster Organization is sponsoring “Market Day’ as a fund-raiser. You order food from a pamphlet either online, mail-in, or call-in. The food is delicious and the ordering is simple. You pick up the items you have ordered at Hamilton High School in the cafeteria on the delivery day from 5:30- ... Read more »

Reporting Unsafe Behavior

In light of past school shootings, it is extremely important that everyone take a “no tolerance” stand against any unsafe behavior. The best way for administration and law enforcement to keep our schools safe is for everyone to have open communication with each other. If we are given information, ... Read more »

Traffic Flow

We would like to remind parents that students should always be picked up and dropped off using our circle driveway in the front of the building. Always be careful and on alert when dropping children ... Read more »

HFS, Garfield and Wilson Soap Sculpture Winners

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Monday, May 12

• Middle School Combined Rehearsal

Saturday, May 17

• Combined Middle Schools at Cedar Point

Sunday, May 18

• Combined Middle Schools at Cedar Point

Tuesday, May 20

• Title I Meeting

Monday, May 26

• Memorial Day Observed - School Not In Session

• Memorial Day Parade

Thursday, May 29

• Instrumental Concert

Monday, June 2

• Secondary Exams

Tuesday, June 3

• Secondary Exams

Wednesday, June 4

• Secondary Exams

• Last Day of School for Students

Thursday, June 5

• Teacher Work Day

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Thank You To Our Adopt-A-School Partners

Many of the activities that we do are supported by our Adopt-A-School partners. They help with awards, incentives, our student cookout and other events.

I would like to thank our Adopt-A-School partners for all their support this year. They provided personal and financial help with many of our activities. Our partners are: McDonald’s Levajo, Pepsi, Chaco Credit Union, Berkeley Retirement Community, Boyd Chiropractic, Copas Dentistry, and Greater Miami Valley YMCA.

Bus Dismissal

In order to maintain safety and insure that our buses leave promptly to the high school, students are asked to report directly to the busses after school. Once the first driver begins driving, they will close their doors and not permit any more students on the bus. If a student misses his/her bus, they must report to the office and meet with an administrator to determine transportation home.

Greater Hamilton Safety Council

The Greater Hamilton Safety Council in conjunction with the Hamilton Police and Butler County Sheriff’s Department will be providing a program called, “So you Want to Drive a Car” to our students on April 3rd. This program helps to educate students about laws, insurance, and other facts about the process of learning to drive as they begin to get their temporary license

Bus Passes

Bus passes for students who need to ride a different bus home will be granted for emergency purposes only. An emergency purpose would be defined as a situation in which the parent is out of town or there will be a lack of supervision for a child after school. Bus passes are granted on a limited basis due to the fact that many of our busses are at full capacity. State regulations and mandates are extremely specific about the requirements of transporting a child home. If a child does need to ride a different bus, the parent/guardian must write a note explaining the reason for the emergency situation. The written note must also contain the date of the needed service, signature of the parent, the bus number the student is needing to ride and a working phone number to verify approval. An administrator will call the bus compound to check bus capacity and find out if there is indeed extra space to transport. The administrator will then call the parent to notify him/her concerning the status of the situation.

The mission of the Hamilton Freshman School is to assist students in making a smooth transition from middle school to high school. Our goal is to help each individual achieve full potential by developing self respect, responsibility, and thinking skills in a safe, diverse learning environment and to build strong relationships among students, staff, parents, and community.

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Current District Report Card

Current Freshman School Newsletter

tests Testing
Ninth graders do not have a state-mandated test this year; however preparing for and learning new information is imperative for next year when all students, as 10th graders will be required to take and pass the Ohio Graduation Test (OGT) in order to graduate from any Ohio School. The Freshman School prepares 9th graders for the OGT by taking two district tests. The first of which, taken in September, Pro-Ohio, is a diagnostic test that contains questions from the OGT to help predict future scores on the OGT. It also gives detailed information to teachers so they prepare better, focused lessons to ensure passage of the OGT next year. The second test that 9th graders take is known as the IOWAS and Cognitive Ability Test. This will take place in October.

Scheduling Questions
After the first two weeks in any semester, students who drop a course will receive an “F” withdrawal grade. This is a mandated board policy for any high school course. Students who fail any courses will need to make those credits up in summer school or later in high school. Please know that scheduling changes are difficult due to limited spacing in the classes.

Parent Workshops
One of our goals this year is to increase parent involvement by providing various activities throughout the year. We have three workshops planned for the year, thus far. Hamilton Freshman School will welcome Catherine Strunk, RN, BSN, from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry on Thursday, October 11, 2007, at 7:00 p.m. in the school cafetorium. She will present “Surviving the Teens: How Parents Can Help their Children Through the Teenage Years”.

Topics of discussion will include suicide, depression and risky behaviors. Parents will learn about child stress factors, coping techniques and potential warning signs, as well as steps that can be taken to protect children.

Ambulance
Emergency Medical Form - English | Spanish

Permission to Dispense Medications - English

Waiver of School Fees

Reduced Lunch Application - English | Spanish

Hamilton Freshman School Library Electronic Resources

Country Watch is a database which offers a lot of information on different countries of the world. You can look at maps, current events, currency (money) rates, population, economy, government, and a lot of other statistical information.

INFOhio - The Information Network for Ohio Schools

Infohio is a collection of databases that are available to the citizens of Ohio. You might have seen this at the Lane Public Library. This has so many great resources, I could go on forever. I’m going to highlight a few that I think will be most useful or interesting to you

EBSCOHOST is a collection of databases. You can look for pictures in EBSCO Images, a description is given with each image. You can use the Student Research Center to look for Newspaper, Magazine, and Journal articles…great primary resources. EBSCO Animals gives basic information and images of a wide variety of animals. An interesting place to search.

LearningExpressLibrary offers you a chance to practice taking lots of different tests (SAT, ACT, Advanced Placement, ASVAB, EMT, Firefighter, Cosmetology), improve your skills in a variety of subjects (algebra, reading, writing, grammar), prepare for a career, and learn resume writing and interview skills. You’ll have to create a username and password to use this database. I suggest that you use the same username and password that you do for your HFS computer account. I have a bookmark for this if you’d like one.

NoveList allows readers to use a favorite author or title as a template to locate other authors and titles of interest. When you look up a favorite book in NoveList, you have the option of finding similar books in one of two ways:

You can click on subject headings from your favorite book and search the database for more titles using the subject headings you have selected, or
You can click the "Find Similar Books" button (at the top of the title record) and search for more titles like the one you enjoyed.

Worldbook Online is your basic World Book and then some. You can search for a specific topic, look for today’s headlines, use an atlas, find Ohio facts, what happened today in history, and all about the current month. There is a pretty neat feature called Surf the Ages that brings history to life.

includes full-text news, updates from Facts On File World News Digest, Reuters and 500,000 links.

World Geography presents a wide array of cultural and historical facts on different countries. You can research food and holiday customs of Spain, and then read the political history of Cuba. This is an excellent resource to use if you are studying a foreign language or are just curious about the world outside of the United States

Brittanica Online is an online encyclopedia which offers quick access to anything that you would find in a printed version of Encyclopedia Brittanica. You can also access a dictionary, thesaurus, biographical information, news articles from the New York Times, and help sections for school subjects.