
March 26, 2025
For Read Across America Week, we celebrated with lots of reading! We started off the week with guest readers who are members of the Delta Pi Nu Chapter of DKG and we love when the...

March 25, 2025
We asked our students to make posters for Black History Month. We had about 70 students participate and our hallways were lined with their beautiful work! All grades participated...

March 25, 2025
We had the pleasure of hosting our very own Huntsville City School’s Superintendent Dr. Sutton for Read Across America! He came to read to our 5th graders and chose a very fun boo...

December 20, 2024
This week Kindergarten and PreK put on the 44th Annual Kindergarten Winter Spectacular! Students practiced for months and did an amazing job!! A special shout out to our Kinderg...

December 20, 2024
You may have heard the jingle of bells or seen some flashing lights as teachers walked by this week!! We had a whole week of dress up days with one of them being Ugly Sweater Da...

December 20, 2024
Every class in grades 2 to 5 hosted a spelling bee. The winner of the class spelling bees participated in our school-wide spelling bee to find the school winner. Students spelle...

December 20, 2024
Ridgecrest hosted its first school dance in years!! Students in grades 2 through 5 were invited to attend our very first Sneaker Ball. The theme of the Sneaker Ball was to wear ...

December 20, 2024
Our special Christmas Angel Candy Edwards loves to treat our teachers and staff!! She arranged for Travelin' Tom's Coffee Truck of Madison County to come to Ridgecrest. Every me...

December 20, 2024
Santa came to see Ridgecrest students this week!!! He talked to all of our 400+ students as every class came to visit him in the library! Students told him what they wanted for ...

December 11, 2024
Our Ridgecrest Rockets learned about Veterans and Veterans Day in their library classes this year. Our librarian, Mrs. Gatzke, is the wife of a veteran who served 22 years in the...

December 11, 2024
Mayfair Church of Christ blessed our Ridgecrest families again this year! They donated 500 care packages for our students to take home for Thanksgiving Break. They included cans ...

December 11, 2024
Our local Madison County Soil and Water Conservation District donated an AG Learning Station to our Ridgecrest Rocket Library on December 3rd. The bookshelf is full of books about...

December 10, 2024
Our Ridgecrest Rockets in Kindergarten, 1st grade and 2nd grade had a very special visit from NASA author Lane Polak on December 9th! He read his book, Hooray for SLS, and then an...

November 4, 2024
Our Lighthouse Club hosted a very important visitor last week - the Quarterback of the Alabama Beavers!! The Alabama Beavers professional football team will start playing in Hunt...

November 3, 2024
We celebrated good behavior with a PBIS Dance Party on October 31st. Our 4th grade team put together a very rad and thrilling blacklight dance party as a reward for students who ...

November 3, 2024
We celebrated Book Character Day on October 31, 2024 as part of Red Ribbon Week. Students were asked to wear school-appropriate book character costumes and boy did they ever!! W...

September 9, 2024
This week in the Library, our first graders are getting their detective badges and learning how to investigate crimes against Library Books. They are first learning how to take c...

September 7, 2024
Our faculty and staff voted for our 2024-2025 theme "Ride the Wave Together" and decorated with a beach theme. We are looking forward to working hard this year for our students! ...

September 7, 2024
We are so excited to announce our new Sidewalk Library for our Ridgecrest Rocket students and neighborhood families to have access to books even when the school is closed! Ridgec...

August 6, 2024
The doors to Ridgecrest will be open for you to visit our school, meet your student's teacher, talk to Administration, visit the library, and hear from our Parent Coordinator! We...