Principal's Welcome

Dear Huguenot High School School Community,  

I am proud to be returning in my second year as principal of Huguenot High School.  This school year, we are “Unlocking Potential and Celebrating Success.”

I would like to explain our motto this year in reverse order. We are “Celebrating Success” this year after an excellent 2023-2024 school year.  Last school year, we made exponential growth in all of our accreditation and school culture metrics.  We are proud to have cut chronic absenteeism to the lowest level of all secondary schools in RPS.  We cut our disciplinary infractions in half.  In all subjects, we made growth, and we are very close to accreditation. We will find out this fall if we make it over the line; however, our faculty, staff, and students did an incredible job through hard work.  We are so proud of our teachers and students. 

We plan to continue our growth this school year through collective efficacy.  Collective efficacy is a group’s shared belief that they can work together to achieve a goal.  This year, we believe that we can meet and exceed all of our goals and “Unlock the Potential” of students, teachers, and staff through mutually shared high expectations, communication, and a 50/50 partnership between the home and the school.  At Huguenot we don’t “believe” that we can do this; WE KNOW IT.  While our record success last year is exciting,  there is more to be done.  We need your help as partners in the education of our scholars.  Here are a few ways caregivers can help: 

• Make sure your child is on time every day to school. Our doors open at 8:35 am.  Students who do not take the bus should be dropped off no later than 8:40 am to get through the security line, get breakfast, and to arrive in homeroom.  

• Join our PTSA.  The PTSA meets once every month and a half to discuss ways in which they can support the school.  The meetings also feature an open-question forum with the principal. 

• Encourage your students to do their best and be kind every day.  Small words of encouragement go a long way.  

• Check in with your students concerning assignments each night. You can check your child’s grades and attendance in the parent portal on ASPEN. 

• Reach out to teachers, counselors, and administrators to ask questions.  We work for you. 

Huguenot High School has a proud tradition of excellence in academics, athletics, and the arts.  We are approaching this school year with a special focus on maintaining high expectations, consistency, and working together to encourage students to take ownership of their learning. We will work to provide engaging, meaningful, and relevant instruction from bell to bell every class period.   

Our goals for this year are: 

Full accreditation through increased focus, and collaborative review, of our instructional practices.

Sharing mutual collective efficacy by supporting high expectations for all teachers, staff, students, administrators, and stakeholders.

Continuing to develop and reinforce practices and procedures that promote and support administrator/teacher/staff/student consistency. 

Not Allowing Ourselves to Accept The Unacceptable 

We look forward to continuing to provide a safe and caring environment for our students and Huguenot High School families.  We hope that you will join us in working together to unlock our school community’s true potential through collective efficacy. 

If you haven’t done so already, please sign up for REMIND messages to keep up to date with our school activities and updates. You can also follow us on our Instagram Account: @hhs_falcons.  We look forward to a dynamic 2024-2025 and are excited to work in partnership with you.  

Go Falcons!