Ridgeview Jr./Sr. High School

2025 FOOD DRIVE!!! The HS student council is sponsoring the annual food drive again!! November 10th to December 12th! This year in conjunction with the food drive, we will host a winter wonder can event on December 12th for JH/HS students and staff to build a winter creation from their donated items! All donations will be donated to the local Colfax food pantry located in the Colfax United Methodist Church! All the food collected will go straight back to our community!! Please help us, help others!! If you'd like to donate items, please drop them off in the HS office for Mrs. Schultz. All JH/HS students will bring donations to their 9th hour teacher.

Congratulations to Elijah Allen for being named BCA's student of the quarter. Way to go!

The Spanish 1 and Spanish 4 made sugar skulls to celebrate Dia de los Muertos.

High school student council members have decorated for Christmas in the front high school hallway. They are excited to bring holiday cheer to the halls of Ridgeview!!

The Ridgeview Junior High Boys Basketball apparel store is open! Place your order by November 19th

https://www.doubledownindustries.com/rjhsbball

National Signing Day Senior #4 Claire Edwards signed her National Letter of Intent yesterday in front of her peers and future volleyball players. Claire will be attending Upper Iowa University in the fall, majoring in Exercise Science. Congratulations, Claire — we can’t wait to watch you continue your volleyball journey at the next level! 💙🏐

The apparel store for Ridgeview High School Girls Basketball is now open! Please place orders by November 21st.

https://www.doubledownindustries.com/rhsgbb

Tonight will be the Second Art Throwdown of the year! Nova Connell and Kael Jamison will be participating in a photography Throwdown. If you would like to watch the stream will be live at 7pm here is the link to the Youtube live stream: https://youtube.com/live/5aJB00vQLH0?feature=share
Please join in and root for your Ridgeview Artists! #artthrowdown2025

A huge shout out to all of the people who helped make our Fall Play "It's a Wonderful Life" such a success this past weekend!!! I would also like to thank all of those patrons who got into the giving spirit. We collected about 170 non-perishable food items to donate to the local food bank!
- Director Chris Metz -

7 of our 8th grade Ag students this semester attended the Illinois FFA Middle School Conference at Lincoln Land Community College. They went on a mission to learn more about FFA, meet new friends from across the state, and kick off their first ever FFA conference! We are excited to see whats next in their FFA career! 🔵🟡

Part time Bus Monitor help needed
Apply online at: https://www.ridgeview19.org/o/ridgeview-cusd-19/page/district-vacancies

The ISU nursing students finished their clinical hours at Ridgeview today. They did presentations in Mrs. Schultz's JH and HS health classes. They talked to student's about backpack usage. How to wear them correctly, how much they weigh, and more.

Reminder, if you are a local Veteran, please consider joining us next Tuesday, November 11th, for our Veterans Day Ceremony!
RSVP to Kelly Borton at Kborton@ridgeview19.org by this Friday.

The Building Trades class had the honor of making a wheelchair ramp for one of our current students! A special thanks to the Emmanuel Lutheran Church and the Matthew 25 Project committee for the monetary donation to purchase the supplies. We are "Building a Better Community"!!!!

BCA (formerly BACC) registration for the 2026-27 school year opens November 7, 2025 at 6:00 am. All returning seniors and new juniors will need to register. Programs will fill quickly!

https://www.district87.org/o/bca/page/bacc-applications

Day 2 of National Convention! We spent the morning with a tour of Driving Wind Farms that showed us a diverse look at agriculture careers including growing berries traditionally and hydroponically, landscaping, and fire wood production. We then explored the career expo and mall. We attended the 3rd general session being recognized on stage for being a 3 star chapter, the highest ranking a chapter can receive. Finally, we ended off the night at an escape room! 🍓🫐🪵⭐️⭐️⭐️ Day 3 of National Convention! We had an early morning for our final day at National Convention!! We attended our final session of the week hearing a retiring address from Luke Jennings. We are headed home with new experiences, new friends, and new ideas and a few tired eyes. 💙💛

JH Student Council hosted a Halloween costume contest today! The teachers judged the costumes and a winner was chosen from each grade level. Congratulations to Hunter Brown, Noah, Harris, and Evangeline Helmig. They each won a $10 Casey's gift card.