Reminder for students, families and staff: there is no school Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. 

A new $450,000 grant as been awarded to Lakeview and Sonnesyn elementary schools to help teachers go deep into reading and spelling strategies.

What started as an outdoor garden in 2019 through a grant from the Seven Dreams Education Foundation continues to grow and expand. And now, a second grant will allow Zachary Lane Elementary School to add pollination and sensory gardens and Kindness Rocks to their outdoor space. 

In hopes to connect with their community and expose elementary students to music programming, Armstrong and Cooper's high school marching bands recently visited each of the district's elementary schools.

All Robbinsdale Area Schools (Rdale) students are invited to participate in this year’s Minnesota Senate art contest. The deadline for drawing or photo submissions is Monday, Oct. 31.

The district has partnered with LearnPlatform to inform staff, students and families about digital resources that have been evaluated by the district's Technology Department. To see the full library of evaluated resources, please visit our student privacy page. 

Robbinsdale Armstrong High School Theater Department presents Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Shows will be held at 7 p.m., Oct. 13-15.

High school students are invited to learn more about the variety of programs at Hennepin Technical College (HTC) during an open house on Thursday, Oct. 13.

Rdale's Early Learning program offers a series of parent-only workshops for those with students ages 4-8. The next workshop in the series, Encouraging Kids to be Lifelong Learners, takes place on Monday, Nov. 7.

Last night, Sept. 29, the freshman football team from Robbinsdale Armstrong High School played the freshman team at Chanhassen High School. During the game, Armstrong players heard a number of racial slurs directed against them and their coaching staff by members of the opposing team.

Last year the School Board voted to change the 2022-23 school year calendar. To accommodate two holidays – Yom Kippur on Oct. 5, 2022, and Eid celebrated on April 21 and 22, 2023.

Robbinsdale Area Schools offers a wide variety of Early Learning programming. Learn more about our preschool program, including evening options. We offer a variety of classes for all ages.

Robbinsdale Cooper High School's student newspaper, The Quill, earned an International First Place Award from the Quill and Scroll Society for the nine issues published during the 2021-22 school year.

Rachel Olson, Natalie Storlie, and Carly and Grant Redelsheimer, all juniors at Armstrong, make up one of three teams in the United States that received an all-expenses paid trip to Germany for the Young Economic Summit (YES!) in September. 

Later this month, Nutrition Services will be offering another taste testing for students. In celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, students will be served homemade pico de gallo made with roma tomatoes purchased from two local Latino farms.