Important News

Building Belonging and Togetherness: #OneLongReach The weekly news digest from LRHS. See below for important information for the Long Reach community: Click here for the Full LRHS News Feed Click here for the Calendar for Athletics, Fine Arts, and other school events Long Reach Online Newspaper: LRHSLightningFlash.com Highlighted Message From the Desk of the Principal Dear LRHS Community, At LRHS…

Columbia Community Cares is planning to continue serving the community with food and other basic needs, until the students go back to their physical classrooms at the start of 2021. The schedule will work as follows: Beginning September 2nd, CCC will operate at 3 locations: *Swansfield Elementary School *Oakland Mills Middle School *Howard High School NEW SITE TIMES effective Sept…

Fall 2020 Saturday Math Academy registration is only for students currently enrolled in an HCPSS School Based Math Course. Parents should register for the desired math course through HCPSS Connect on 9/26 @ 9am-12pm. Parents that register for the Saturday Math Academy Fall 2020 session will be contacted for payment by a BSAP representative once registration is complete. All registrants…

The Catholic Community of Ascension and St. Augustine has partnered with Lancaster Food and Feed America to distribute boxes of food that contain fresh fruit, vegetables, dairy, and meat. The distribution will take place every Saturday starting at 10a during the month of October at Ducketts Lane Elementary School. There is no income and/or documentation restrictions.

In the coming weeks, HCPSS will begin providing face-to-face support to small groups of students. Identified students and staff have been invited to complete an interest survey. If you did not receive a survey, it is because your child has not yet been identified for in-person support. All students who receive special education services will receive an email with directions…

The Hispanic Heritage Foundation's (HHF) 2020 Youth Awards educational grants program is now accepting applications! Our 22nd Annual Youth Awards will award students who are in the graduating Class of 2021 with up to $1000 in educational grants to fund their higher education or a community-based project. Recipients will be selected for their accomplishments in the classroom, community and for…

Students will place requests for materials using the school PAC (Public Access Catalog) located on HCPSS.ME. Instructions for how to access this are located in your Canvas Student Resources Course, under the Library Resources Guide for the Media Center. The link to it is here: (make sure you are signed in to Canvas first) Students will receive a canvas inbox…

Long Reach Counselors will be hosting College Information Sessions for you and your parent(s) to attend. We will be reviewing the four year college application process, how to complete transcript/recommendation requests, as well as providing some financial aid information/resources and have Q&A at the end. Please join us for one of these sessions! Dates: Thurs. Sept 17th @ 7pm Wed…

Building Belonging and Togetherness: #OneLongReach The weekly news digest from LRHS. See below for important information for the Long Reach community: Click here for the Full LRHS News Feed Click here for the Calendar for Athletics, Fine Arts, and other school events Long Reach Online Newspaper: LRHSLightningFlash.com Highlighted Message From the Desk of the Principal Dear LRHS, As a parent…

2020/2021: Long Reach High School Attendance Information (revised 9/17/2020) Absences To excuse absences to Google Meets (for entire day or certain periods), parents/guardians may send an e-mail to lrhsabsence@hcpss.org within 5 days of a student’s return. The e-mail must include the first and last name of the student, date of the absence and reason for the absence. You will receive…