Ridgecrest Elementary School

Ridgecrest was chosen as the recipient of a grant given by the Huntsville Pacesetters Lions Club in partnership with Paperpie Books and Melissa's Book Basket. On September 19, ev...

Yesterday we honored our faculty and support staff of the month! This month the fabulous Ms. Johnson was named our teacher of the month and the marvelous Ms. Beauford was named ou...

Yellowhammer Brewing and their patrons filled the Launch for Learning donation box with supplies for Ridgecrest! It was so full, the box could barely hold them all!! This was a wo...

The theme for School Year 2025-2026 is Camp Ridgecrest: Where Learning is Fun. Our teachers dressed as Camp Counselors for the first day of School and we were ready for our stude...

This summer our Cafeteria Manager snapped a photo of a student reading books by our Sidewalk Library. The Sidewalk Library was purchased two years ago with funds from our PTA and...

Our fifth grade Ridgecrest Rockets celebrated moving on to middle school on May 13th. So many families came out to commemorate their student's hard work and accomplishments. Mr. ...

As always, Coach Lowery and Coach Longmire planned a very fun Field Day for Ridgecrest on Friday, May 9th. Many parents joined in the fun with their student to make it even more ...

In honor of Earth Day, Ridgecrest classes each had a No Power Hour where they did not use screens or devices. Our GATE students wrote and won a grant to provide all Rockets with a...

Ridgecrest hosted its very first Family Fun Night on April 22nd. We had math games and prizes hosted by Mathnasium of Huntsville; the Scholastic Book Fair was open for shopping; G...

A few months ago our librarian Mrs. Gatzke found out about Latinx KidLit Book Festival's School Visit Fund where a school can apply for a visit from a Latinx author or illustrator...

Our first graders and their teachers soared into Spring with a very fun Kite Day! "Go Fly a Kite Day" is celebrated the third Sunday in April every year so our first grade classe...

On April 10th, our Librarian and Military Liaison Mrs. Gatzke traveled to Montgomery to attend the Alabama State Board of Education Meeting and receive Ridgecrest’s Purple Star ba...

Ridgecrest hosted its very first ever Pep Rally to help students get excited for ACAP success!! Ms. Travis, one of our 3rd grade teachers, organized this amazing event which was ...

For Read Across America Week, we celebrated with lots of reading! We started off the week with guest readers who are members of the Delta Pi Nu Chapter of DKG and we love when the...

We asked our students to make posters for Black History Month. We had about 70 students participate and our hallways were lined with their beautiful work! All grades participated...

We had the pleasure of hosting our very own Huntsville City School’s Superintendent Dr. Sutton for Read Across America! He came to read to our 5th graders and chose a very fun boo...

This week Kindergarten and PreK put on the 44th Annual Kindergarten Winter Spectacular! Students practiced for months and did an amazing job!! A special shout out to our Kinderg...

You may have heard the jingle of bells or seen some flashing lights as teachers walked by this week!! We had a whole week of dress up days with one of them being Ugly Sweater Da...

Every class in grades 2 to 5 hosted a spelling bee. The winner of the class spelling bees participated in our school-wide spelling bee to find the school winner. Students spelle...

Ridgecrest hosted its first school dance in years!! Students in grades 2 through 5 were invited to attend our very first Sneaker Ball. The theme of the Sneaker Ball was to wear ...