We are looking forward to seeing our students return and welcoming our incoming Class of 2029. To assure a smooth start, we are sending this message which contains essential information for the beginning of the 2025-2026 school year. Please review all information carefully. 

Below are important links to review.  We ask that you access the online information and complete all appropriate forms by the first day of school. If you do not have access to a computer or the Internet, please contact the main office at 458-9551 to make arrangements to access this information.   

  • POWERSCHOOL INSTRUCTIONS: PowerSchool is our first line of communication to students and parents/guardians regarding grades, course registration, and attendance records.  Additionally, PowerSchool provides access to your daughter’s information and other important links.  The directions will advise you on the following: 
  • Access to PowerSchool: Please review the instructions on how to access PowerSchool and make sure you know your username and password prior to the start of the year.  
  • Update Personal and Contact Information: You will be asked to review information and make any necessary corrections no later than August 13.   
  • Handbook Agreement:  You will also be asked to review the STUDENT-FAMILY HANDBOOK 2025-2026 with your daughter and to select the drop-down box verifying that you both have reviewed the handbook as part of the legal agreement between you and Assumption High School.    
  • STUDENT HEALTH FORMS: AHS physical forms for freshmen and transfers as well as current immunization forms aredue before the first day of school. Kentucky state law (KRS 158.035, KRS 214.0, and KAR 2:060) states that students with expired or no immunization certificates will not be allowed to attend class. The original certificate of immunization against diphtheria, tetanus, poliomyelitis, measles, rubella, hepatitis A, and meningitis must be submitted by every student and kept on file by the school. This link provides access to the AHS physical form for freshmen and transfers as well as the KHSAA physical form for all student-athletes. 
  • CARPOOL AND TRAFFIC FLOW INFORMATION & MAP: Please review this link for detailed information about the proper way to drop off/pick up your daughter at school. Please note that the paved shoulder along Bardstown Road in front of Assumption is used as a turning lane/waiting area for vehicles prior to entering the carpool lane on campus. Those queueing on the shoulder must be sure not to block the Bardstown Road/Tyler Lane intersection.
  • STUDENT-FAMILY HANDBOOK 2025-2026: Please use this link to access the 2025-2026 Student-Family Handbook and look through it carefully as it is part of the legal agreement between you, your daughter, and Assumption High School. It also lets you know what you can expect from us and what we expect from you and your daughter. The handbook has a clickable table of contents and an easy search feature, so you can get fast answers to your questions. You must verify that you and your daughter have read the handbook and agree to be governed by the rules and policies it includes when completing/submitting required forms and information through PowerSchool. 
  • UNIFORM BASICS: Click on this link for a quick review of our uniform code for the 2025-2026 school year.  
  • SCHOOL CALENDAR: A link to our school calendar is provided for your planning purposes. We will continue to add events as needed throughout the year.Any additions or changes to the school calendar made throughout the year will be communicated in the weekly Rocket Report each Friday.  Additionally, we provide a ONE PAGE CALENDAR that allows you to easily view important calendar dates for the entire school year.  
     
  • SUMMER READING LISTS: A reminder that all students are required to complete their summer reading prior to the first day of classes. Please review this link to see your daughter’s summer reading book and assignment.  
  • RETREAT: Per tradition, freshmen will attend retreat with their homerooms, and sophomores, juniors, and seniors will sign up for a retreat date that works best for them (pending availability). Visit the link for more information about retreats, including retreat dates and sign-ups. As always, please do not let the financial commitment of retreat stop your student from attending. Please reach out to Julia Scudder for questions about retreat and/or financial assistance. 
  • ROCKET PARENT NETWORK (RPN) ENROLLMENT FORM: The Rocket Parent Network strives to support and advocate for the health, safety, and well-being of each student by partnering with families and Assumption High School to promote drug/alcohol-free initiatives and programming. Learn more about the many benefits of being a part of the RPN at the link above. You can find the RPN Enrollment form here.  
  • WORK STUDY PROGRAM: Freshmen and Sophomores are welcome to participate in the Work Study program. Juniors and Seniors are by invitation only as these students have more opportunities for employment outside of AHS. Work Study students provide cleaning and occasional set-up/tear down after school Monday-Friday from 3:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. under the direction of our Work Study supervisor.  Students selected for Work Study will earn $22.00 in tuition credit per 2 hour shift ($11.00/per hour). For more information and to apply, please visit the link above.  
  • PARENT SUPERVISION OPPORTUNITIES: As shared in our special message on calendaring in July, this year we will continue to offer our Rockets Taking Initiative (RTI) period which provides time for students to be assisted by teacher teams and participate in other academic as well as life and leadership enrichment activities. When students are not in a meeting or in an enrichment session, they report to a supervised area for quiet, independent or partner work. This year there are two opportunities for parents to help to support this opportunity for students! Parents will have the opportunity to consider a new Regular Parent Supervisor Position which includes a tuition discount opportunity or serving as a Parent Supervision Substitute Volunteer. Visit the link above for more information to learn more about these opportunities. 
  • CLASS OF 2029 – FRESHMAN PARENT MASS LETTER: We invite all freshmen and their families to the Freshman Parent Mass in September. Please review the letter to learn more details and opportunities to volunteer in various roles.  

UNOFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT COPY: If your daughter is a returning AHS Student (class of 2026, 2027 or 2028), an unofficial copy of her transcript was emailed to you last week.  Official and unofficial copies of this document will be sent to colleges, universities, scholarship committees, and athletic departments at her request during her junior and senior years.  Please take this opportunity to review your daughter’s current transcript with her.  Also included in last week’s transcript email was the GPA explanation of the KEES GPA and Assumption’s GPA.  Your daughter’s KEES awards update will be coming in the mail from the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority or visit https://www.kheaa.com/website/kheaa/home where you can also view the award amounts.  Also please note, if we do not have a copy of her social security card (the number is listed at the top of the transcript) she will not be eligible for KEES scholarship opportunities offered by the state of Kentucky.  Copies of your daughter’s social security card may be emailed to records@ahsrockets.org or mailed to the Assumption main office, attention: Registrar. 

STUDENT SCHEDULES: Student schedules can be viewed on PowerSchool. However, they are not finalized. There is still the possibility of changes to block, semester, and teacher assignments as we continue to level out section numbers.  All students will receive a paper copy of their finalized course schedule on their first day of school. We are not currently making schedule changes, but if students would like to request an elective course or levels change, they can do so during the drop-add period which begins on August 11 and runs through August 20 by contacting the appropriate dean of studies (Judy Fieldhouse for students last name A-K or Theresa Schuhmann for students last name L-Z) when we return to school.  

TEXT BOOKS: As shared in a special message on July 16, your daughter will receive her physical books on Orientation Day, Friday, August 8. At that time, her digital books will also be available on her Digital Bookshelf. During the first days of class, her teachers will assist students in accessing and navigating their digital bookshelves to ensure a smooth transition into the new school year. With the exception of class novels, these books are rented through Assumption, so we ask that students take great care of them throughout the school year. Books should be returned in good condition, similar in the way they were received. If any books are lost or damaged, your family will be responsible for the replacement cost.

Please Note: Families are still responsible for purchasing summer reading books and a TI-84+ graphing calculator, which your daughter will use throughout all four years at Assumption.

NAME BADGES/BUILDING ACCESS FOBS: ALL students are issued name badges which they are required to wear on a school-provided lanyard around their neck during school hours. Name badges serve not only as student IDs but are chipped so they can be used as building access fobs that allow students access to the various areas of our campus during the school day. To increase our campus security, all school entrance doors remain locked at all times, including during morning arrival; students use their name badges/fobs to enter at the main entrance, the CAC entrance, the theater entrance, and the Arts and Sciences entrance before school each morning; they also use them to re-enter the building when they choose to eat lunch outside. Please note that if your daughter loses her name badge, it should be immediately reported to the main office staff so it may be deactivated as a building access fob, and she will need to come to the main office as soon as possible to purchase a replacement for a cost of $30. Freshmen will have their picture taken on their first day of school, Thursday, August 7 and should receive them by Tuesday, August 12th. All returning students must wear the name badges they had from last year to school on Friday, August 8. Juniors will have new lanyards made after school portraits are taken on August 19 & 20.

LOCKERS: Lockers are optional for all students. As a senior privilege, before school starts in August, seniors who would like to have a locker will be given the opportunity to choose their own lockers; juniors who want to have a locker will be allowed to select their own lockers during the first few days of the school year; sophomores and freshmen who would like to have a locker will be allowed to select their own lockers within the first week of the school year. Students who do not request lockers at the beginning of the school year and decide later they would like to have one need to see Mrs. Park, the assistant to the deans, in the Main Office to be assigned a locker. During their season, student athletes may keep their sports bags and athletic equipment in the spaces marked for this in the locker rooms in the gym. Banks of lockers will be provided for temporary student use when students need to securely store laptops, books, etc while they are gone on retreat, field trips, etc.

TUITION: All families must be current in their payment of tuition for the 2025-2026 School Year by Friday, August 1 or the student will not be admitted on the first day of school. Please contact the Finance Office at 454-8402 if you have any questions or concerns. 

PARKING: Juniors and seniors who applied for a parking space by the July 14th deadline should have picked up their parking tags on Thursday, July 24th. If she couldn’t make it on July 24th, then she will have to wait until Thursday, August 7th between 1:30 PM and 3:30 PM to pick up the pass. Since students have already uploaded their licenses and signed the Parking Agreement Forms, they may send someone else to pick up their parking pass. Those who did not apply for a parking space by the deadline or will not have licenses until later in the year, can request a parking space any time after Friday, August 15th by contacting Mrs. Park in the Main Office. Complete parking information has been communicated directly to juniors and seniors via school email.

CARPOOL TO SCHOOL: If you still need to find a carpool for your daughter, please know that Assumption has partnered with CarpoolToSchool.com, an online service that creates an Assumption-only network that allows parents and students who wish to start or join a carpool to connect online. Users can create their own carpool option and open it to other families. Users may also request to join another AHS parent-organized carpool or a carpool to/from school that has already been set up by an AHS junior or senior who drives to school. If you still need a carpool or didn’t receive (or can’t find) the invitation emailed to AHS parents/guardians directly from CarpoolToSchool last May, please contact assistant to the deans  Tatum Park. 

FRESHMAN AND TRANSFER APPLIED DIGITAL LEARNING CLASS: This week, we began orientating freshmen and transfers to their laptop and will continue to do so next week.  As mentioned in the Parent Laptop orientation sessions this week, following their in-person training, freshmen and transfer students will receive an invitation to begin their semester-long Applied Digital Skills technology course to learn more on the features and capabilities of their laptop. This fully-online course requires students to complete online assignments throughout first semester culminating in a pass/fail credit. Please help your daughter to be sure to complete a new assignment every Tuesday and Thursday.   

FRESHMAN P.E. Apparel: Students can wear any shirt/sweatshirt and pants/shorts as long as they are purchased from the Assumption Campus Store. Students can shop in-store or online.  

CAMPUS STORE: Before the first day of school, the Campus Store will be open July 29 & 31 from 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM and August 8 from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM. Starting the week of August 11, the Campus Store will be open Wednesday and Fridays from 10:30 AM – 2:00 PM. We will list additional night and weekend events when the store will be open on our website. Outside of those hours, anyone wanting to shop can e-mail tricia.ferree@ahsrockets.org to schedule an appointment, but the online store is always open! Click here to visit the online store.

FACULTY/STAFF RETREAT: The school and all offices will be closed while faculty and staff participate in an opening retreat on Monday, August 4. Please keep us in your prayers. 

THE FIRST DAYS OF SCHOOL SCHEDULE: Below is information about our first days of school.  

  • Thursday, August 7: Freshman First Day, 8:10 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.: All freshmen should be in their homerooms by 8:10 a.m. Ambassadors will be at all school doors and hallways to assist freshmen throughout the day. Individual course schedules will be given out in homeroom at the beginning of the day. After some orientation activities, freshmen will meet each of their classes for a shortened period and will have lunch as a class. A pizza lunch will be provided.  Freshmen should not bring their laptops or textbooks with them to school on this day—just a folder, a notebook, and something to write with will suffice. Freshmen are to be dressed in their school uniform as they will have their school picture taken on this day. Students will be dismissed at 2:00 p.m. Please make arrangements for your daughter to be picked up by 2:30 p.m. No after-school supervision will be provided on this day.   
  • Friday, August 8:  First Day of School – Orientation Day for All Students, 8:10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: The first day of school for all students is an orientation day with arrival by 8:10 a.m. and dismissal at 12:30 p.m.  All students should report to their homeroom by 8:10 a.m. and wear their full uniforms.  Students should not bring their laptops. Students will receive their textbooks on this day. Please make arrangements for your daughter to be picked up by 1:00 p.m. No after-school supervision will be provided on this day.   
  • Monday, August 11: First Day of Classes – Day 1 – 8:10 a.m.-3:00 p.m.: The first day of classes for all students will be a Day 1 with our standard Monday arrival by 8:10 a.m. and dismissal at 3:00 p.m.  All students should report to their A block class by 8:10 a.m., bring their laptops and Day 1 textbooks with them, and wear their full uniforms including their name badges/lanyards (not spirit wear!). Cafeteria services will be provided beginning this day. After school supervision will be provided in the cafeteria until 4:30 p.m. 

MANDATORY PARENT ORIENTATION MEETINGS: Below is information about our parent orientations. Parents are highly encouraged to attend in-person as these meetings are a great opportunity to meet school personnel as well as other parents. All orientations will also be live-streamed for those parents who would need to attend virtually due to a conflict. 

  • Monday, August 11: Freshman and Sophomore Parent Orientation Meetings, 6:30 p.m. 

The freshman parent meeting will be held in the cafeteria, and the sophomore parent meeting will be held in the theater.  

  • Wednesday, August 13: Junior and Senior Parent Orientation Meeting, 6:30 p.m. 

The junior parent meeting will be held in the cafeteria, and the senior parent meeting will be held in the theater.