Check out the latest issue of Northgate Odyssey's newsletter, Creative Flames. This edition takes a look back at the amazing journey taken by our Odyssey of the Mind teams this year.

Read the latest edition, Creative Flames, here.

On Thursday, June 5th, Northgate School District proudly celebrated the commencement of the Class of 2025. Surrounded by family, friends, faculty and community members, 78 seniors crossed the stage to receive their diplomas.

This year’s graduating class included 45 honor graduates, a testament to their hard work and academic dedication. The ceremony featured inspiring addresses from the class valedictorian, Jeanelle Stiteler, and salutatorians Caleb Gratner and Tyler Harold, who reflected on the students’ shared journey and encouraged their peers to embrace the future with resilience and purpose.

In addition to celebrating academic achievement, the evening highlighted the strong community support that surrounds Northgate students. Local organizations and benefactors awarded 15 scholarships to graduating seniors to assist in their post-secondary endeavors—whether in college, trade programs, or the workforce.

We are incredibly proud of the Class of 2025 and look forward to all they will accomplish in the years ahead. Congratulations, graduates! 

 

The AHN mobile clinic will be coming back to Northgate on June 3^rd as well as June 10^th to help provide sports physicals for those who wish to participate in athletics in the 2025-2026 seasons. All the necessary documents to fill out are attached below and must be filled out prior to the appointment.
 
Appointments can be made by scanning the QR code attached to the Northgate flyer provided.
 
The cost for these sports physicals will be $20 and can be paid with cash or card. If you have any further questions, please reach out to Zach.quince@northgatesd.net.

AHN Consent to Treat Form
Consent to Treat Without Parent
Parent Written Permission Note
PIAA Physical Forms

About 30 million children participate in USDA’s school breakfast and lunch programs on an average school day. When school is out for the summer, kids lose access to these healthy meals, but they still need nutritious food to grow healthy and strong. 

With SUN Meals, kids 18 and under can get free meals and snacks at schools, parks, and other group meal locations. You don’t need to apply for SUN Meals. Every child is welcome to eat and connect with other kids, and some meal locations offer fun activities, too!

Find summer meal sites near you: https://pittsburghfoodbank.org/what-we-do/kids/summer-youth-cafe/

 

 

With summer right around the corner, we want to make sure families in our community know where to find free meals for kids during the break! Summer Youth Cafe sites will be opening up across the area once school is out, providing nutritious meals to children at no cost. Scan the QR code above to find your local site.

Best of luck to Savian Baptiste, Will Smith, Tyler Harold and Zion Ward as they travel to Shippensburg University to compete in the PIAA Track & Field State Championship meet!

They will run in the preliminaries of the class 3A 4x400m relay Friday afternoon.

You can watch them live using this link.

In Pennsylvania high school track and field, there are only two classifications: 2A and 3A. Our Avonworth/Northgate co-op program now competes at the highest class; 3A. It's a tall order to qualify for WPIAL Championships, as they only take the top 24 in each event. From there, medaling (top 8) is even harder. And qualifying for states? That’s reserved for the very best of the best. However, Our kids still brought the thunder to the biggest schools in western PA!

The boys 4x100m relay, with members Zion Ward and Savian Baptiste, came into the meet seeded 11th and proceeded to grab 6th place medals and broke a 10 year-old program record! Their time came extremely close to the state qualifying standard, missing by just 0.05 seconds. Still, the performance marked a major accomplishment on the biggest stage.

In the girls 4x400m relay, Hope Stiteler and her teammates arrived seeded 21st—well outside medal range. But that didn’t stop them. They finished 8th overall, claiming a spot on the podium and logging the 7th fastest time in program history. Unfortunately, they did not hit the state qualifying standard.

The last event of the day was the boys 4x400m relay. Seeded 12th, the boys relay squad; Tyler Harold, Will Smith and Savian Baptiste needed not only a top 8 finish, but also to hit the state qualifying standard of 3:24.03 in order to punch their tickets to states. To do it, they’d have to shave nearly two seconds off the program record and because of their seed, they would not be able to battle in the same heat against the top 8 seeds.

Nonetheless, the boys dominated their heat and finished in 6th place with a time of 3:23.47 and a ticket to the PIAA State Championships. Only powerhouse programs like Butler, Moon, Penn Trafford, Norwin and North Allegheny placed higher schools with far larger athlete pools.