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Authors Road neighbors gathered the night before the first day of school: the Strange, Wilson, and Mudge families, ranging in age from 5-17, from kindergarten at Alcott (class of 2038) to senior year at Acton-Carlisle High School (class of 2026). Courtesy photo
Kids are trading the R&R of summer for the three R’s of academia. Here are some of Acton’s young scholars as they start the 2025-26 school year. Many thanks to our readers for sending in these vibrant photos.
Max Strange, 5, starts kindergarten at Alcott Elementary School, where big sister Harper, 8, is in third grade.In this montage of first-day snapshots, Edison Wu shows his progress through Alcott Elementary School, starting in 2022.New town, new school: Caroline O’Brien, 10, begins fifth grade at Alcott.Ruby Palusci, 5, and Jasper Palusci, 8, are starting kindergarten and second grade at Thoreau School.George Taylor, 10, is a fourth grader at Willard School.Pravin Amini is in fourth grade at Thoreau.… and Arman Amini is in kindergarten at Thoreau.Madison Schulsinger, 6 1/2, is a first grader at Willard Elementary.Braden Bialecki, 14, is a CCHS freshman.Kindergartner Ruth Joy, 5, and second grader Seamus Joy, 7, attend Willard Elementary School.Summer Jiang, 5, greeted her first day of kindergarten at Thoreau Elementary with open arms.Evangeline and Joe Russell, in sixth and eighth grade respectively, pose with their Alcott “buddy” Jacob, a third grader, who came to wish them good luck.
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Wishing every student and family a great school year!
