Important News

Senior Week - Staying Safe in Ocean City: HC Drug Free will offer 2 Senior Week: Staying Safe in OC programs. Adults and all students welcome to hear beach safety tips and beach-related police updates to keep your teen safe in and out of the water. Attend on Monday, March 18 at 7:00 p.m. at Howard High School or Monday…

Bus Transportation - Please click here to locate to find your child's bus stop. Additional safety information can be found by clicking here.

Effective school year 2018-2019, Maryland State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene requires all incoming 7 th, 8 th, 9 th, 10 th and 11 th grade students in the state of Maryland to have one Tdap and one Meningitis vaccine BEFORE entering school. Some students may have already received these immunizations, but the Health Room may not have the…

As the school year approaches, we wanted to share some important information relatedbuilding hours and getting to and from school . Please take a moment to review the information below: Building Hours for Students 7:00 am to 2:15 p.m. - For security reasons, students will not have access to the building until 7:00 am. Following dismissal, only students participating in…

You will receive your student’s list of courses for the 2018-2019 school year through email the evening of August 17. The email will include the courses and credits in which your student is enrolled, the name of their counselor, and their Homeroom – this is the room to which they will report on September 4. The email will also include…

Class of 2019 & Parents, Welcome to senior year! With so much on the horizon, this is arguably the busiest, most exciting year of high school. College application time is just around the corner and your LRHS counselors are here to help! College night for seniors AND parents will be held on Wednesday, September 5 at 6 p.m. in the…

Start Dates: Aug 8th: Football 8:00am, Girls Soccer 8:30am, Boys Soccer 2:30pm, Golf 10:00am @ Timbers of Troy Aug 13th: Cross Country, Field Hockey, Volleyball 8:00am, Cheerleading 4:00pm. Pre-Participation Physicals University of Maryland Sports Medicine is offering physicals for $20 through August 4. They are located on 5890 Waterloo Road, Columbia (across from Eggspectations). Click here for details. Online Registration…

HCPSS uses Family File for parents/guardians to complete emergency information. Parents/guardians must verify and/or update information for each child, and can do so by logging in to HCPSS Connect Parents new to the Howard County Public School System will receive a welcome email with instructions to activate an account. These welcome emails are expected to begin going out later today…

Students in grades 6-12 have had restricted Office 365 email and G Suite accounts that only permit sending to and receiving from other HCPSS accounts. Beginning in the 2018-19 school year, secondary students will have the ability to use their “@inst.hcpss.org” email account to send and receive email outside of HCPSS. They will also have the ability to share items…

Permission for students to drive and park vehicles on school system property is a privilege, not a right. In order to be granted this privilege, students must obtain a student parking permit each school year, which requires students and parents/guardians to annually attend a driver safety session and to pay a $15 fee for the parking permit. Students must also…