Greetings Cavaliers!

Happy New Year and welcome back to the spring semester.  It is hard to believe we are half way through the 2014-2015 school year!

Final grades for the first semester will be issued the week of January 12.  Please review the progress your student made with him or her.   It is important to discuss short term and long-term goals with your student.  Please communicate with teachers and counselors to get the information and support to make your student successful and continue to monitor student progress via School Loop. 

2015 will prove to be an exciting year for Montclair High School.  This semester we will be preparing our 10^th graders for the upcoming CAHSEE Exam on March 17^th and 18^th.  Our school is also preparing to take the new Smarter Balance Assessments for the first time this spring.  This exam will only be given to 11^th graders in the subjects of English and Math. It is important that all students attend school on these testing days. 

Winter sports teams have been competing and have been successful at a high rate with several teams ready to fight for a league championship.  I encourage you to attend a sporting event to support our teams.  We also look forward to our spring musical “Little Shop of Horrors” as well as all of our fine arts performances throughout the semester.

Please follow me on Twitter @MontclairCavs for up to date events and the latest news.

You will see plenty of construction projects as on campus as work has begun on our new pool, solar parking structure, additional stadium seating and new press box, and new shade structures throughout.  These improvements will add to the great educational environment we have established at Montclair High!

I look forward to seeing you at school events as we partner in the education of our students.

Best of luck to all of our students this second semester, it is going to be a great one!

Go CAVS!

Martin Alvarado
Principal 

“Students don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care.”