Ithaca High School

This year's Budget Vote and School Board Election will be held on Tuesday, May 21. Polls will be open from 12 noon until 9 p.m. To check your polling location and learn more about early mail and absentee ballots, visit ithacacityschools.org/vote!

Last week, students at LACS and DeWitt Middle School shared part of their day with Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, and Melinda Person, President of New York State United Teachers. The day fostered collaboration and celebration of the shared commitment to educational excellence and served to highlight the way our educators incorporate hands-on, real-life skills like cooking, interpersonal relationship-building, and student self-care into the curriculum. Read more about it here: https://www.ithacacityschools.org/article/1501987

✨ 🎥The second video in a series of superintendent interviews, "Sitting Down with Dr. Brown," is out now! Led by Ithaca High School 9th grader Gracelynn (Gracie) Lomax. 🎥✨ Gracie asks Dr. Brown about what it means to have a community of students look up to him, how he defines community, how he supports the cultivation of safe spaces for students and staff, and more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQqgsJGoSvw

On December 21, our Scholar Athlete Council sponsored the first-ever Women in Sports Panel in Kulp Auditorium! 12 ICSD grads shared their experiences as scholar-athletes at the collegiate level with current ICSD female-identifying athletes. It was an impactful experience for all who attended! Thank you to all of our alumni who participated in this event. We love it when our ICSD family comes home.

On December 19, Ithaca High School choirs performed in their winter concert! ☃️

Welcome back, ICSD! We hope you had a restorative winter recess and we’re so happy to see everyone again ❤️ Starting off 2024 with some great shots from the December 13 IHS Winter Orchestra concert 🎶 🎻

Don’t forget! Winter Recess begins tomorrow, December 22, and lasts through January 2. Wishing our ICSD community a safe and enjoyable break! ❄️

Ithaca High School’s Winter Band Concert drew crowds in from the cold last week! ❄️The performance featured student chamber ensembles, the IHS Concert Band, and the IHS Wind Ensemble! 🎶

Cornell Performing & Media Arts commissioned a group of Ithaca High School’s emerging artists, Creatives of Color, to design and create a 16' x 8' hip-hop/graffiti-related mural to serve as the backdrop of a performance by legendary B-Girl Ana "Rockafella" Garcia and DJ Ha-MEEN; the performance was part of a series called “The Wild Gather: On the Floor, Off the Screen, and Through the Body.” The artwork was completed with the assistance of several art classes with leadership from the Creatives of Color members. On Friday, December 1, the mural was unveiled at a Freestyle Cypher dance event at the Flex Theatre, followed by an artist talk led by Ana “Rockafella” Garcia and Ben Ortiz, curator of the Cornell Hip Hop Collection. Congratulations IHS student artists on this fantastic collaboration and achievement, and thank you, Cornell Performing & Media Arts!

Reminder: Starting TOMORROW, December 1, all ICSD students will receive free breakfast and lunch for the remainder of the school year! Learn more here: https://www.ithacacityschools.org/article/1337258

Did you check out our November e-Insider? Find the link here! https://mailchi.mp/icsd/icsd-e-insider-november-2023-2

Reminder: No school November 22-24 for Thanksgiving Recess. School will resume on Monday, November 27. We hope you have a safe and restful break!

Congratulations to the IHS Drama Club cast and crew of Clue on a successful run this weekend!

Great news! Beginning on December 1, all students in the ICSD will be eligible to receive a free healthy breakfast and lunch at school. This will continue throughout the remainder of the 2023-2024 school year. Read more here: https://www.ithacacityschools.org/article/1337258

In observance of Veterans Day, the ICSD will be closed on Friday, November 10.

On October 10, Girls Soccer hosted senior night! Congratulations, Class of 2024! ⚽️🥅

The Girls Volleyball team celebrated their seniors last month! Congratulations ❤️💛🏐

A community message from the ICSD Board of Education and Superintendent is available now: https://www.ithacacityschools.org/article/1318822

ICSD Transportation is revamping its safety training with hands-on workstations that include pre-trip inspections, wheelchair training including loading and unloading, tail swing, and mirror adjustments. We strive for the absolute safety of our students and staff and plan to keep working to make our training the best around!

Last week, over 300 student musicians gathered for the annual IHS Collage Concert! 🎶