Riverdale Local Schools

Mrs. Dapper's Advanced Math and Reading students participated in their annual GLOW Week last week in preparation for their upcoming state tests! They completed all of their assignments and task cards under the black light with highlighters! Fun was had by all, all while reviewing their skills!

Mark your calendars!
📅 May 20, 2026
🕓 4:00–7:00 PM

Same-day physicals for all Junior High and High School athletes.

Please see flyer for details.

Ms Lifer's Environmental class has been working on making solar powered houses. They were able to try them outside in the sun!

Mrs. Brooks’ 1st-grade scientists have been learning all about weather, thunder, and lightning! Students explored how storms form and even observed electrical charge using a static electricity ball to see how lightning can happen. Hands-on learning made science come alive! ⚡🌩️

Mrs. Birchfield’s class enjoyed an exciting ABC Countdown Adventure Day around the Riverdale campus!

🥎 8U & 10U Camp Wrap-Up! 🥎 Our 8U and 10U sessions just wrapped up, and it was great to see all the hard work, energy, and improvement from our young players! Thank you to everyone who came out, and a big shoutout to our high school girls for doing an awesome job leading and working with the campers. Excited to keep things going with our older groups! 💪🥎

Riverdale pride was on full display at the 14th Annual Wyandot County Sports Hall of Fame Banquet! We’re proud to recognize our All-Ohio honorees who were in attendance: Grady Phelps - wrestling, Kolten Evans - track/cross country, Marissa Bonham - track/basketball, and Paige Vent - track. Nathan Alge and Paige Courtad were named the Riverdale scholarship recipients, and a special congratulations to alumni Kayla (Brown) Golding ‘09 on her induction into the Wyandot County Sports Hall of Fame. A great night celebrating hard work, dedication, and Falcon excellence—congrats to all!

🥎 Softball Camp Happening Now! 🥎 Our High School Softball Team is currently hosting a camp for 12U and 14U players. It’s great to see so many young athletes out working hard, building skills, and learning from our high school players. Awesome energy and effort all around! Thanks to everyone participating and supporting our program! 💪🥎

Riverdale shop and engineering students had an outstanding showing at the OTEEA State Project Show, bringing home several top awards including 1st Place Overall Display. The Zupanic Award (Best Project in the State) went to Grant Inbody for his Rocking Chair, which also earned 1st Place in Woods. Additional 1st Place awards included: Restoration Innovation – Czedric Ropp (Camshaft Night Stand), Sheet Metal – Hannah Vent (Metal Rose), Plasma Cutting – Landon Passet (Nameplate), 3D Printing – Jacob Williams, Noah Locke, and Connor Lowden (Robot), CNC – Jenna Collier (Cutting Board), Welding – Connor Lowden, and Laser Engraving – Connor Lowden. 2nd Place awards included: Sheet Metal – Carter Vent (Shovel), Plasma Cutting – Carter Vent (Plasma Cutting Project), Restoration – Connor Lowden (Milk Can), Metals – Nathan Price (Coffee Table), STEM – Parker Driskill and Kaiden Crooks (Connect 4), Advanced Woods – Noah Locke (Treasure Chest), Laser Engraving – Lilly Kearns (Trinket Box), Innovation – Andrew Alge (Putter), Metals – Dom Benitez (Coat Hanger), and Energy/Power – Grant Inbody, Parker Driskill, and Kaiden Crooks (Scooter). Congratulations to all of our students for their hard work and for representing Riverdale so well.

Congrats to our Riverdale Robotics students who brought home some impressive finishes at the National Robotics Challenge! Over 600 robots competed across 15 categories, and our students represented Riverdale extremely well. Top Results: • 2nd Place – Robot Maze: Cale Young, Brody Berger, Caleb Hoffman • 9th Place (out of 120 teams) – Combat Robot: Lonnie Adams, Hunter Studer, Maelin Mitsche • 9th Place – Robo Hockey: Connor Lowden, Noah Locke, Jacob Williams, Isaiah White, Jordan Buchanan. Great work to all of our students who competed and represented Riverdale with creativity, teamwork, and innovation. We’re proud of you!

Mr. Speyer’s 2nd-grade class and Mrs. Alexander’s 1st-grade students teamed up for a fun coding collaboration! Mrs. Alexander brought her class into our room, where students worked together exploring different coding websites, building problem-solving skills, creativity, and teamwork.

🎉📚 Book Fair Winners! 📚🎉

Congratulations to these boys who each won a gift basket from our Spring Book Fair! During Family Night, they guessed the closest number to how many computer keys were in the jar, and their guesses were spot on!

Thank you to everyone who joined us for a fun and successful Book Fair Family Night. We loved seeing our Riverdale families learning, reading, and celebrating together! 🦅✨

We are excited to celebrate two outstanding winners from the Hancock County Tell-a-Tale Literacy Contest!

In Kindergarten (Mrs. Birchfield’s class), Aaron Woodruff earned 2nd place for story and 1st place for illustration.

In 4th grade (Mrs. Weatherholtz’s class), Aleigha Woodruff earned an incredible 1st place for story and 1st place for illustration.

Both students were recognized at the Mazza Museum during the awards ceremony.

We are so proud of their creativity, imagination, and hard work!

Come on out next Saturday, April 25th, to support a great cause at the Luke Swavel Memorial Classic! ⚾🥎 📍 Riverdale High School ⏰ Games start at 10:00 AM 10:00- Elgin v Riverdale 12:00- Upper Sandusky v Elgin 2:00- Upper Sandusky v Riverdale Watch some great teams compete while supporting the Run Through First Scholarships for our Riverdale and Upper baseball and softball seniors. 🎁 Gifts & raffle baskets available — all proceeds go toward the scholarship fund! Hope to see you there!

Mrs. Brooks’ first-grade class has been busy learning and growing, just like their plants!

Students have been planting microgreens and exploring the plant life cycle firsthand! From planting seeds to watching them sprout, they are getting a hands-on look at how plants grow and change over time.

What a fun and engaging way to bring science to life in the classroom! 🌱

Students with a 3.5 GPA through the first three nine-week periods of the year, quiz bowl students, National Honor Society, and students with perfect attendance are invited to our Academic Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, May 13th. We will also disperse local scholarships to seniors. Paper and emailed invitations will go out to those who qualify for an award or scholarship. If you have any questions about eligibility for awards, please contact Ms. Shaw in the High School office.

Ms Lifer's Biology classes completed a PTC taste lab. This lab looked at genetics and how certain tastes are passed through genetics.

🚨 SCHEDULE UPDATE 🚨 The middle school track meet at Liberty-Benton scheduled for Monday has been CANCELLED.