YSHS News & Notes
September Newsletter
Wednesday, September 4, 2024 (6:00-8:00 PM) - We will be hosting our traditional back to school night at the high school. Like last year, we will be hosting the night with a drop-in format. Parents can walk around the building, dropping in to briefly speak with teachers. This year, there will not be any scheduled formal whole-group presentations in the auditorium. The entire time is dedicated to parents having the opportunity to touch-base with their students' teachers.
We will have maps of the building and a list of teacher rooms available when parents arrive. Parents are encouraged to check Infinite Campus for their students' schedules or ask their student for a list of their teachers. Any parent, who is unable to get their student's schedule, can check in the office for a copy.
Wednesday, September 4
- Back to School Night - 6:00-8:00 PM
Thursday, September 26
- Homecoming Thursday - Powder-Puff, Parade, Bonfire
Friday, September 27
- Homecoming Football Game - Crowning of King & Queen, Band Performance
Saturday, September 28
- Homecoming Dance
You can always find upcoming YSHS events on the HS Google Calendar: Click Here
For a calendar of upcoming sporting events, check out YSTrojans.org.
The school calendar is available on the district website.
To everyone who drops their children off in the morning, or picks them up in the afternoon, we always use the front of the building closest to Hollywood Drive for that purpose. Additionally, we ask that all drop-off and pick-up is done in a single line on the parking-lot side. We try to keep the underpass clear for two purposes: accessibility of emergency vehicles and transportation vans, as well as to assist with the merging of traffic after pick-up.
Each spring, we recognize our students who earned the highest level of Academic Achievement for the current school year. Students are recognized for awards based upon their performance by academic content area, improvement from the prior school year, as well as for reaching Distinguished Honors (3.8 GPA or Higher) or Exceptional Honors (4.0 GPA or Higher). The students earning the honors are invited to participate in a ceremony in the spring of each year.
Last spring, we had an error in our system that prompted numerous students to be recognized at the wrong tier, or not recognized at all. Those students were:
Dashiell Bedell, Amara Burggraaf, Isabella Camacho, Matteo Caputo, Grace Connolly, Nathan Efiom-Ekaha, Austin Fry, Sean Garver, Justus Hortman, Neil Ingole, Austin Kefauver, Cindy Kieru, Danica Landolt-Huse, Nico Makowski, Natalie Martin, Meridith Medlock, Brynn Neidigh, Attikus Peterson, Natalie Pinto, Samantha Potter, Rowen Reed, Juliana Renda, Reed Sanders, Addison Shiflet, Alisha Siddiqui, Esmeralda Velasquez Luiz Martins, Valentina Viola, Aivleen Walsh, Bella Weaver, & Sophia Wile.
We updated the listing of the award winners and it can be viewed here. We look forward to celebrating the 2024-25 academic accomplishments on May 7, 2025!
We are pleased to partner with Junior Achievement (JA) of Central PA to host their STEM Summit program for our sophomores on Tuesday, October 15, 2024. The program is designed to expose students to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) careers while also engaging in fun STEM-related activities. While JA always does a great job of soliciting volunteers from local businesses, they can always use additional volunteers to make the day go as well as possible for our students. You don't need to have a STEM background to assist. If you are interested and available, please consider volunteering through Junior Achievement. You can learn more about the program and what happens as a volunteer via this link.
If you are unable to volunteer this time, but would like to help in the future, we will need volunteers for the JA REAL Life program on April 1, 2025 and for our Mock Interview Day on April 9, 2025. More information about volunteering for those dates will be coming out closer to those dates.
Get the BEST deal of the year! Order a yearbook for your student by Friday, September 13, 2024 and you’ll get it at the lowest price of the year!
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Questions? Email your York Suburban Profile yearbook staff at yearbook@yssd.org
We are hard at work capturing all of this school year's memories!
If you have questions related directly to your student, you can contact one of the following individuals:
Ninth Grade
- Counselor: Tina Howe - thowe@yssd.org
- Assistant Principal: Jackie Fuentes-Gillespie - jfuentes-gillespie@yssd.org
- Social Worker: Miranda Jenkins - mjenkins@yssd.org
Tenth - Twelfth Grade
- Counselor (last names starting A-G) - Jamie Britton - jbritton@yssd.org
- Counselor (H-O) - Angie Adams - adams@yssd.org
- Counselor (P-Z) - Taylor Glowaski - glowaski@yssd.org
- Assistant Principal - Chris Adams - cadams@yssd.org
- Social Worker: Miranda Jenkins - mjenkins@yssd.org
Other Important Contacts
- YSHS Principal - Brian Ellis - bellis@yssd.org
- Athletic Director - Ron Coursey - rcoursey@yssd.org
- Career, College, & Workforce Coordinator - Korbin Shearer - kshearer@yssd.org
- School Nurse - Karla Coffman - kcoffman@yssd.org
As the year continues, we'll post links to the prior newsletters.
- September -
- Back to School Information - Information Document