School Begins Monday

Ramona's youth are due to stream back into their classrooms Monday.

At Ramona High School, freshmen will have an orientation Monday and grades 10 to 12 will pick up schedules. Thousands of textbooks are neatly stacked in the library awaiting hand out Tuesday.

Schools Superintendent Robert Graeff's letter to families is attached as a PDF and can be downloaded.

In the letter, Graeff notes that students will be walking into schools that are celebrating their highest test scores in the district's history. He refers to an API gain of 22 points and an overall API score of 809 for the district. Graeff writes that this is the highest gain in San Diego county for districts with more than 200 students.

Graeff also notes that the state's fiscal challenges will provide "significant hurdles" to what can be accomplished in local schools. He writes that, as staff focus on teaching 21st century skills they will be "trying to do more with less."

He encourages families to speak positively about their children's schools, monitor daily school work, maintin a high level of expectation and supplement school work with other reading in order for their children to reach their maximum potential at school.