Springwater Trail High School
Website: http://stweb.gresham.k12.or.us
Location: 1440 SE Fleming Ave, Gresham, OR, United States
Phone: 503-261-4600
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpringwaterTrail/
Twitter: @STHS_Titans
Financial Aid Night
On Thursday, Oct 11th at 6:30pm we are having a Financial Aid night at Springwater Trail High School. We will be in the computer lab answering questions and helping you fill out your student's FAFSA. FAFSA stands for "Free Application for Federal Student Aid" and is a critical step to ensuring your student has access to all the government aid (grants, work study money, and loans) available for post-secondary education.
In order to be fully ready for this evening, your seniors will be asking you for their social security number so they can complete the FSA ID #, which needs to be completed prior to completing the FAFSA. The FSA ID # is an electronic signature verifying the student's name matches the submitted social security number. We also ask that you bring your 2017 taxes for easier filing.
If you are a parent of a middle college senior, I will be sending you an additional email, explaining the step you need to take to be ready for Thursday.
We want to provide you with the all the support you need to complete your FAFSA. If you have questions or concerns, please email Linda Centurion at centurion@gresham.k12.or.us or call 503-261-4611.
Senior Parents Needed
Academic Support Mondays, Tuesday, and Wednesdays
Additional academic support is available at Springwater Trail High School, on Mondays and Tuesdays from 2:30pm-3:30pm. This additional time will allow students to utilize school resources such as the library and student computers for homework, studying, reading, etc.
Transportation home at 3:30 is available on Mondays but students MUST sign up in the office prior to noon on Mondays to receive a ride home.
Students will need to have their own transportation home on Tuesdays.
Wednesday school is also available every week and we encourage students to utilize this time to meet with their teachers, retake quizzes, and get homework help. Transportation home at 3:30 is available but students MUST sign up in the office prior to noon on Wednesdays to receive a ride home. If you have questions regarding after school support, please call the office at 503.261.4600.
Report Cards Online
Beginning this school year, paper report cards will be available by request only. You can access your students progress reports and report cards online through ParentVue. To access the report card from your ParentVue account, just click on the 'report card' button from the menu on the left side of the screen. If you have trouble logging into your ParentVue account or need to get it set up, Please contact Koryna Herreid in our main office. Herreid@gresham.k12.or.us
Volunteering
Interested in Volunteering at our School?
1) Go to the district website at www.gresham.k12.or.us
2) Hover over “About Us” and click on “Volunteer Information”
3) In the left-hand menu, click on “Volunteer Application Form”
4) Fill out the online application
5) Record your volunteer badge number
Once completed, the approval process can take up to two weeks.
Happy volunteering!
NOTE: The application is not mobile compatible. This must be done on a laptop or desktop computer.
Springwater Attendance
If your son/daughter is going to be out for the day please call the office (503-261-4600) and let us know the reason why. Whenever the office is not notified of an absence, a call is made home via the automated calling system. If the student is going to be out more than three days, you can call the office or email your student's teachers with a request for homework. If your student is going to be out of school for extended period of time due to a vacation or some other event, please have him/her complete a Pre-arranged Absence Form. If your student needs to leave school early or arrive late due to appointments, please call the office or send a note to excuse their absence.
Dania Aguilar Sosa
Grade: 9
Interests: Reading, and spend time with family.
Favorite subject in school: Math
Favorite thing about STHS: How small it is
Logan Billingsley
Future Plans After High School: Going to College
Grade: 10
Interests: Computers and gaming
Favorite subject in school: English
Favorite thing about STHS: The small size
Lindsay Averett-Morasch
Future Plans After High School: Major in Psychology and minor in Education
Grade: 12
Interests: Psychology and Volleyball
Favorite subject in school: English
Favorite thing about STHS: The community and the teachers.
Logan Davis
Future Plans After High School: Law enforcement to be a K9 unit
Grade: 9
Interests: Cars and Space
Favorite subject in school: Science/Biology
Favorite thing about STHS: Every student is able to have more down time/interaction with the teachers.
Neva Ryan
What are your plans for this year: Going to Mt Hood Community College working on getting a transfer degree to Western Oregon. Also working in the book store at MHCC.
What do you miss about STHS: The community and the "smallness of the school"
Advice you would give current STHS students: Your grades really do matter for all 4 years of High School. If you are wanting to go to a 4 year college make sure you focus on your grades. Your grades will determine if you will be accepted to a 4 year college.
Kendra Giard
What are your plans for this year: Currently working and trying to find a job in a trade that would suit me best.
What do you miss about STHS: The people and the teachers. They are all so friendly and helpful.
Advice you would give current STHS students: Don't slack. Once you slack you cant get back very quickly.
Aaron Whistler
What are your plans for this year: I'm planning to continue attending the Oregon Institute of Technology, where I'm working towards a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering. Hopefully by the end of the year I can start looking into internships in the tech industry.
What do you miss about STHS: I miss the teachers. OIT has great professors that are very skilled in their fields, but they often move quickly through material, and it is harder to get individual attention. It is more possible to ask questions during lectures here than other colleges, but I miss the ability to come into a class almost any time I need something and having someone to help me.
Advice you would give current STHS students: Don't just breeze through classes or jump through the hoops of high school. That strategy works to get good grades, but it is terrible when you actually have to apply what you learned. Just because you ace a test or an assignment does not mean you will always be able to. The things you are learning in high school may not seem important now, but every subject you take in high school teaches a skill that is very useful in higher education, and it will save so much time and energy learning it now while you have the resources and staff there to help you versus relearning it in college on top of the other difficult things you need to master. This is true for all of the classes you take in high school, not just the ones you think will apply to what you want to do after high school.
If you're planning to go to college, make sure you pick a degree that applies to many fields that you're interested in. If you try to overspecialize in one place, and find that you either don't like it or that there aren't enough job openings, you will end up wasting both time and money. If you pick a degree that applies to many career paths, you open up so many opportunities for yourself, and you'll have much more freedom in what you end up doing. Instead of thinking of majors as a direct stepping stone into a specific job, think about a major as a dive into a pool. You can dive into a shallow pool or a deep pool, but if you dive into a shallow pool then you will hit the bottom and have no where else to go.
Electronic Flyers
Gresham-Barlow Distict has launched a new electronic flyer tool called “Peachjar.” This service allows us to “go green” and will ensure that every flier is delivered to each household. Peachjar will provide flyers directly to your computer, tablet or mobile device.
To view school-approved flyers, simply click the Peachjar button on your school’s website.
