Author: RCCA (RCCA )

  Roberto Clemente Community Academy has been undergoing comprehensive school reform since June 2011, when current principal Marcey Sorensen and her administrative team arrived. Most notable among the many changes at Roberto Clemente Community Academy is their status as an IB Candidate School. 2012-13 marks the first year of alignment with the Middle Years Programme...

During the month of October, freshmen and sophomores were given the opportunity to visit local universities. The purpose of this trip was to expose students to college life and get them excited about their post-secondary planning. The sophomore college trips were planned according to students’ GPA and 9th grade EXPLORE scores, so that students were...

Clemente’s varsity football team won the 2013 Homecoming game on Thursday, defeating Kelvyn Park 16-7. This victory concludes the Wildcat season with a 4-3 division record in the Intercity-1 Conference. Tailback Christian Rivera led the offense with 12 carries for 115 yards. Rivera also scored on a 67-yard TD run that gave the Wildcats an...

Last Sunday, a group of students from Roberto Clemente Community Academy volunteered at the 2013 Bank of America Chicago Marathon. Clemente students were responsible for setting up and maintaining water stations to hydrate the long-distance runners. Positioned at mile 15 on Ogden Avenue, Clemente’s aid station was just past the halfway point in the 26.2...

The Roberto Clemente Steel Band was started in the 1960’s by S. Thomas Henry, who then followed the program to the newly-built Roberto Clemente High School in the early 1970s. The steel band has been known throughout the Chicago area ever since, performing for the Puerto Rican People’s Parade, Dia de los Ninos Parade in...

They say participating in extracurricular activities—sports, clubs, student government, etc—is one of the best ways to make your high school experience a great one. At the Clemente Union League Boys & Girls Club we agree wholeheartedly and are thrilled to be part of the Roberto Clemente Community Academy. This year we are excited to offer...

Clemente freshmen are responding positively to the use of SMART Boards as an instructional tool in math class. Recently, this technology as been used to supplement class instruction on graphing on a Cartesian plane, demonstrating and manipulating 3-dimensional object shapes, adding text to diagrams, and utilizing online resources such as Khan Academy. Students with diverse...

On Saturday October 12th, juniors Felisha Rodriguez (flute), Margarita Colon (clarinet), and sophomore Christian Dejesus (clarinet) from Mr. Frazee’s advanced band will be representing Clemente at All-City Regional Band auditions at Schurz High School. If selected, students will begin rehearsals in November with other high school musicians from around the city to prepare for an...

Last week freshman students completed their first full scientific investigation, an experiment that they designed individually and conducted in small groups within their biology classes. The investigation focused on the rate of photosynthesis, measured by how quickly spinach leaf disks were able to rise to the top of a sodium bicarbonate and water solution. Students...