June 25th, 2025
Dear GPA families,
Congratulations on a successful 2024-2025 school year! On behalf of the faculty and staff at Great Path Academy, we would like to thank you for choosing Great Path Academy to educate your students and sharing them with us all year to learn and grow together. We are very proud of the accomplishments and achievements of our students this year which culminated in the Class of 2025’s graduation on Friday, June 13th. Congratulations to our new graduates - we wish them all the best in their futures!
This morning we sent out the final report card of the year which includes the fourth marking period, final exams, and end of year calculations. We are proud to announce our 4th marking period honor roll. You can view our Marking Period 4 Honor Roll here.
This summer we have many exciting projects that are happening at GPA including the installation of a new climbing wall in the gym which will become part of our health and wellness curriculum and help support new club programming in 2025-2026. We are constructing a new eSports room on the second floor to support our scholastic and extracurricular eSports activities. This week we have already met over 50 students for our annual summer bridge program and have spent the past few days getting to know our new students and some of our GPA ambassadors and student leaders have taken part in helping them get adjusted to high school at GPA! This Friday we will be taking them to the UCONN Adventure Park for a day of team building activities.
In 2025-2026, we will have a new bell schedule and calendar, and I want to thank the members of our School Governance Council and faculty and staff who gave input and advice into developing the new schedule which I believe meets our needs for instructional time as well as student engagement. Our school day is shortened by 30 minutes per Hartford Public Schools. Due to the shortened day, we are reducing advisory from our Monday-Thursday schedule and will continue to offer the same instructional minutes as we have in the past to maintain our academic instruction hours. We are taking this opportunity to incorporate a new Friday schedule this year which will include advisory and a Cougar Flex block. Our new Cougar Flex block is our new flexible time where we plan to offer clubs, enrichment, and intervention opportunities. We will be sharing more information about how students will immerse themselves in Cougar Flex in the beginning of the new school year. We will no longer have a shortened Friday day but will rotate A/B days with advisory/Cougar Flex being held each Friday.
Expect to hear from us in the middle of July with updates and announcements from our summer work at GPA and we plan to send out back to school communication the first week of August. Attached to this message are important dates to put on your calendar for the beginning of the year, and our new school calendar and bell schedule. Our website is also updated with the calendar, bell schedule, and the first semester of important dates - https://www.hartfordschools.org/o/gpa
We will see all of our returning students in the fall for the first day of school on Tuesday, August 26th, 2025. If you need to reach us, our main office will be open from 8am-2pm on Monday through Thursday and 9am-1pm on Friday during the summer beginning Monday, June 30th until August 11th, 2025 and we will be closed on Friday, July 4th, 2025. You can connect with us at the main office at 860-512-3700 and make sure to follow our social media pages on Instagram and Facebook. We wish everyone a safe and fun filled summer!
Respectfully,
Dr. Jessica Fitzgerald
Principal