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Welcome Back from Your Superintendent

August 19, 2024


Dear Parents, Guardians, and Students:

I hope you have been enjoying your summer break and have had time to relax, learn, and play. I was able to enjoy the annual Austin Jersey Shore vacation with my family; my brothers, nieces, nephews and with my children and grandchildren. Our schools have been busy places with summer school, STEM camps, Robotics camp, and town and city recreation camps. At Central Office, and in all the schools, we have been busy preparing for the new school year!

As we look ahead to this upcoming school year, we look forward to engaging our students in learning and helping them explore their passions and proclivities, while also tending to social-emotional learning. By accelerating learning, fine-tuning the support systems, and enhancing school life with enrichments, clubs, and sports, students will come back to their school community energized with a sense of belonging. This year is the year of Grace and Gratitude – we need to give it to ourselves first and then to all those around us.

With the start of the school year just around the corner, we have important back-to-school information on this page. This includes the schools’ start and end time schedule (see schedule below), the 2024-2025 school calendar, and other pertinent back-to-school information. (You will be notified when bus routes are finalized.) Also, for clarification, the first day of school for students is as follows:

  •  Thursday, August 29 - Grades 1 through 12 
  • Friday, August 30 - Kindergarten and TK
  • Tuesday, September 3 - Grades PreK and Pre-School

School

Start Time - End Time

Fitch High School

7:40 a.m. - 2:20 p.m.

Groton Middle School

7:50 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Elementary Schools

9:00 a.m. - 3:35 p.m.


Attendance Matters! Our district, state, and nation has seen the adverse effects of absenteeism on student performance during the Pandemic and even last year with the Tri-demic; this is the year we will be sharing Grace and Gratitude! We welcome our students and staff as we continue to be Better Together and look forward to a wonderful new school year 2024-2025!


Sincerely,

Susan L. Austin
Superintendent
Groton Public Schools

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