
May 5, 2025
 This week’s Together for Holyoke newsletter has been released. Check your email inbox, your text messages, or follow this link  for the news behind our latest headlines.   What's ...

May 2, 2025
 What’s been happening at the middle school construction site over the past few months? Check out this 18-minute video for a virtual tour guided by HPS Maintenance Administrator Se...

April 30, 2025
 Holyoke Public Schools is conducting its annual survey to gather feedback and suggestions from families who have received written information from HPS in the language they speak a...

April 28, 2025
 The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education on Monday, April 28, provided Holyoke Public Schools with a list of exit assurances that will support the distri...

April 17, 2025
 In Massachusetts, one in seven  girls do not have reliable access to pads or tampons, which makes participation in school difficult or impossible during their menstrual cycles. Wh...

April 17, 2025
 Families and staff are encouraged to make note of the following dates as we head into the last three months of the school year:    Friday, April 18—Schools are closed for Good Fri...

April 14, 2025
 This week’s Together for Holyoke newsletter has been released. Check your email inbox, your text messages, or follow this link  for the news behind our latest headlines.   What's ...

April 9, 2025
 A group of about 30 freshmen music education majors from UMass Amherst have visited STEM Academy music classes four times this year as they immerse themselves in the school’s succ...

April 7, 2025
 Join Holyoke Public Schools, Sodexo, and FoodCorps of Massachusetts and Rhode Island at 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 10 at Donahue School for the second annual Holyoke Fun Fair. The ...

April 2, 2025
 Prepare to laugh, scream, and get a little bit green at the Holyoke High School Music Department’s production of “Little Shop of Horrors,” playing April 3-6 in the HHS North audit...

April 1, 2025
 Following an intensive community engagement process—and more than 50 original sketches from HPS students who submitted their own design inspirations—Peck Middle School now has a n...

March 31, 2025
 This week’s Together for Holyoke newsletter has been released. Check your email inbox, your text messages, or follow this link  for the news behind our latest headlines.   What's ...

March 31, 2025
 UMass Amherst  and its University Without Walls  program have partnered with Holyoke Public Schools to offer HPS paraprofessionals and teachers of record a pathway to earn early-c...

March 24, 2025
 HPS students in grades 3-8 and 10 began taking Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS ) exams in late March. These tests will continue to be administered through earl...

March 21, 2025
 On the last Wednesday of each month, area families have been meeting at the Holyoke Children’s Museum for engaging “Family Talks” discussions for parents and guardians, free meals...

March 17, 2025
 This week’s Together for Holyoke newsletter has been released. Check your email inbox, your text messages, or follow this link  for the news behind our latest headlines.   What's ...

March 17, 2025
 Holyoke Public Schools is one of 49 school districts in Massachusetts to receive funding through the My Career and Academic Plan (MyCAP) program . The funding will allow participa...

March 13, 2025
 Zoë Moynihan graduated from Holyoke High School North thinking she wanted to be a police officer—but that didn’t turn out to be her path. Her real passion lies in working with chi...

February 15, 2024
 All HPS schools will be closed next week, February 19-23, for February break. Classes resume on Monday, February 26.  

January 5, 2024
   Superintendent Anthony Soto shares his thoughts on the January 4, 2024 edition of the Together for Holyoke newsletter. Take a listen to the videos (in English and Spanish) and r...
