Ridgecrest Elementary School

Our Ridgecrest Rockets in Kindergarten, 1st grade and 2nd grade had a very special visit from NASA author Lane Polak on December 9th! He read his book, Hooray for SLS, and then an...

Our Lighthouse Club hosted a very important visitor last week - the Quarterback of the Alabama Beavers!! The Alabama Beavers professional football team will start playing in Hunt...

We celebrated good behavior with a PBIS Dance Party on October 31st. Our 4th grade team put together a very rad and thrilling blacklight dance party as a reward for students who ...

We celebrated Book Character Day on October 31, 2024 as part of Red Ribbon Week. Students were asked to wear school-appropriate book character costumes and boy did they ever!! W...

This week in the Library, our first graders are getting their detective badges and learning how to investigate crimes against Library Books. They are first learning how to take c...

Our faculty and staff voted for our 2024-2025 theme "Ride the Wave Together" and decorated with a beach theme. We are looking forward to working hard this year for our students! ...

We are so excited to announce our new Sidewalk Library for our Ridgecrest Rocket students and neighborhood families to have access to books even when the school is closed! Ridgec...

The doors to Ridgecrest will be open for you to visit our school, meet your student's teacher, talk to Administration, visit the library, and hear from our Parent Coordinator! We...

4th grade GATE students and Ms. Aguilar have been hard at work preparing for an awesome community service project. They decided to help animals in need and purchased toys and mad...

Ridgecrest hosted International Night for our families on April 23rd. Each grade picked a continent to represent and then each class chose a country to learn about. Students rec...

Our Ridgecrest Rockets had an exciting day today at school! Students who received permission from their parents to view the eclipse with their class received special glasses obta...

Our amazing Second Grade Team organized our February PBIS Celebration. The theme was Pajama Glow "Slumber" Party but students certainly didn't sleep! They danced, they sang, the...

Attendance and a good night's sleep are very important during ACAP Testing! Please ensure your student(s) come to school for testing. The classes with the highest attendance wil...

Ridgecrest had a wonderful Read Across America Week! We had community members read to students including our school board member Ryan Renaud, Councilmember Bill Kling, parents ...

We are celebrating Read Across America Week with dress up days and mystery readers! We are excited for a fun week of reading! Monday 3/4: Read Like a Boss Put your feet up on y...

We had lots of fun on Valentine's Day! Classes had parties, our wonderful CNP gave all students bubbles with their lunch, and some grades dressed up!

Our Black History Committee decided to host a poster contest for grades K through 5 this year and it was a great success! So many students participated and made engaging posters ...

On February 15th, Ridgecrest students hosted a phenomenal Black History Program. They sang, they danced, they answered trivia questions, and they represented famous African Americ...

Following an inclement weather day on Friday, Jan.12, Huntsville City Schools (HCS) will be in session on Friday, April 26. Students, teachers, and employees will follow normal ...

The 100th Day of School was Wednesday, January 31st and Ridgecrest celebrated in a BIG way! We held a parade and many of the classes had special activities to celebrate the day. ...