FHPS District News
Three Students Receive Perfect Score on ACT
Caitlin Benitez, Grace Clinger, and Daniel Richardson, juniors at Central High School, achieved a perfect score of 36 on their ACT exam. Only 0.136 percent of students achieve a perfect score. According to their website, act.org, the ACT is a standardized test used for college admission in the United States and tests skills and proficiency […]
2018 FHC Graduate Wins Top Honors in Gerald R. Ford Essay Contest
Story by School News Network: This year, the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation annual essay challenge invited high school students to submit an essay focused on courage — a quality many say Ford exhibited when he succeeded the disgraced Richard Nixon as president and granted him a pardon. For her first prize-winning essay, worth a […]
FHC Junior Places Second in Nation in Statistics Poster Competition
Forest Hills Central High School junior, Dorris Dagama, won second place in the American Statistical Association’s National Data Visualization Poster Competition. Her poster, “Is this year’s flu season deadlier than last year?” won first place in the Michigan Statistics Poster Competition and was forwarded to the national competition. Dagama and her poster will be featured […]
Seven Seniors From the Same Family in the FHN Class of 2018; Five Will Join the Military
Story by FOX 17: This year’s graduating class at Forest Hills Northern High School is unique: seven children from one family in Ada will graduate, five of whom will join the military, including quadruplets. For the complete story by FOX 17 about this family and their graduates, go to http://fox17online.com/2018/05/21/quadruplet-high-school-graduates-each-to-serve-in-the-military/ or click the following story link. Quadruplet […]
Two FHPS Odyssey of the Mind Teams Take First Place at Eurofest
Odyssey of the Mind is the world’s oldest international creativity and problem-solving competition. Eurofest is the top European Odyssey of the Mind tournament and takes place each April in a different country, drawing top finishers from Europe and Asia, along with teams from other continents. Teams compete first in the traditional Odyssey of the Mind […]
Three High School Students Among Top in GR Economic Club Essay Contest
Two Forest Hills Eastern High School juniors, Elle Bennett and Olivia Miller, were named second- and fourth-place winners of the Grand Rapids Economic Club Essay Contest. Ethan Cripe Bonnell, a junior from Forest Hills Northern High School also received top honors. These students’ essays were among the top 13 of over 300 hundred essays from area […]
