Updates and Events
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Learn more about Minnesota's Community COVID-19 Vaccine Pilot Program.
![Middle school students walking from a school bus to the front of the school]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1576172323/rochesterk12mnus/oiogiqzkyqq4svsyhkrr/BellTimeStudy.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1576172323/rochesterk12mnus/oiogiqzkyqq4svsyhkrr/BellTimeStudy.jpg","width":512}])
The conversation around bell times for students have occurred for many years, and the School Board revisited this conversation once more to discuss pushing up the start date.
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RPS Student Nutrition Services will now be offering daytime and evening meal kit pick-up at Graham Park.
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MN Legislature passed SF31, which provides an extension of the deadline for certifying free and reduced-price meal applications for this school year only. The extension allows schools to continue to certify Applications for Educational Benefits, Alternate Applications for Educational Benefits and direct certification through January 4, 2021.
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Longfellow is the only in the district that operates on a 45/15 schedule, one in which students attend school year-round, with classes in 45-day blocks, three-week breaks in between and a six-week summer vacation.