January 14, 2022

MLK Day: Mon, Jan 17; NO SCHOOL

7th Grade Coffee Shop: Tues, Jan 18 @ 8:40 am; meet in the front office at 8:30 am

In-Service Day: Fri, Feb 4; NO SCHOOL

8th Grade High School Preview Night: Mon, Feb 14 @ 6:30 pm

7th Grade MIM Field Trip: Wed, Feb 16; CLICK HERE for payment

President's Day: Mon, Feb 21: NO SCHOOL

Senior Trip: March 2 - 6

11th Grade Charger Camp: Mar 2 - 4

Rising Senior Night (juniors only): Mon, Mar 21

10th Grade Charger Camp: Mar 23-25

Great Hearts has updated our COVID mitigation plan. The primary change is the isolation period for those that have tested positive, it has been changed from 10 days to five days. Day one is the first day following the onset of symptoms or a positive test (whichever comes first). Students and employees can return on the 6^th day but must wear a mask on days 6-10 or will need to continue quarantining for this period. As always, if your child has any cold or flu-like symptoms, please keep them home and call the front desk to report the absence. For further direction, please consult the COVID mitigation plan or contact Nurse Hodgkins. 

Tell the state how to spend your tax money and direct it to Arete Prep. Did you know thanks to your support of our Tax Credit Drive, your Arete Prep students are able to participate in a variety of extra-curricular activities such as athletics, enrichment activities such as Heart For Others, Mentor/Mentee program, Yearbook and more!

Every Tuesday beginning January 18, running through April 15, families who already have or set up their $400 or $200 tax credit to Arete Prep will be entered in random drawings for exciting incentives from local sports teams, local restaurants, Charger gear and more! Don’t forget, anyone who pays taxes in Arizona is welcome to participate; encourage family members, friends, co-workers, and neighbors to support Arete Prep! A prep family who brings in additional tax credits will get additional entries into the random drawing!

Click here to watch a video on how tax credits are used at Arete!

To Give your Tax Credit to Arete Prep, click here.

You can contact, Academy Giving Manger, Brittani Greve with any questions: bgreve@areteprepacademy.org or 480.699.5283

Attention student drivers that do NOT have a paid parking spot on campus! There is FREE parking across Baseline Road next to Auto Zone. Do NOT park in the archway parking lot, at Wedgewood, INSPIRE, the medical facilites (across the street) or in the neighborhoods. Those locations are private property. If you park in the private parking lots, they may have you ticketed or towed.Thank you for helping to be good neighbors to those around us!

Arete Prep would like to implement the text messaging system for important information about events, safety alerts and more.

You can opt out any time by replying to one of the message with "Stop."

CLICK HERE for all Arete Prep Athletic info.

Visit our College Counseling webpages and resources HERE.

High School Students are invited to attend College Presentations during lunch and after school through this semester. A list of upcoming presentations (on-campus, off-campus and virtual events) can be found HERE.

Contact Lead College Counselor, Ms. Rebecca Arguello with questions.

2021-2022 UPDATED Family Calendar: CLICK HERE for the calendar

Booklist: CLICK HERE for Arete Prep Booklist.

Middle School Lab Notebooks: All middle school students need a Labbook for class: CLICK HERE to purchase. Students can pick them up in the front office after the purchase is made.

Uniforms: Purchase uniforms from Anton Uniforms, CLICK HERE for website info.

Dress Code: CLICK HERE for the Dress Code.

Lunches: Click here to for instructions and order. Volunteers are needed for lunch periods, sign up HERE. No children may accompany volunteers. Reminder: there are no microwaves available for students. Snacks are for sale during lunch.

Volunteers Needed: Arete Prep volunteers must have a security clearance to volunteer; CLICK HERE for clearance instructions.

Prep Students with Archway Siblings Drop-off and Pick-up: For drop-off: drop your prep student with the archway student at the archway double doors. Prep students need to walk around the front of the admin building and enter the prep building on the east side of the campus. Prep students are not allowed in the archway side. For pick-up: have prep student walk to archway MPR for pick-up with archway sibling. Prep student will need to walk around the front fo the admin building and the west side of the MPR. Prep students are not allowed in the archway playground or in their building.

MIDDLE SCHOOL: There will be a cart inside the front office doors from 10:20 am - 11:20 am for lunches, the cart will be moved to the courtyard at 11:20 for students to pick up lunches.

HIGH SCHOOL: There will be a cart inside the front office doors from 11:15 am - 12:15 pm for lunches, the cart will be moved to the courtyard at 12:20 for students to pick up lunches.

PLEASE NOTE: there will be no supervision of the lunch cart and we will not be responsible for lost lunches. Door Dash/Uber Eats will need to be delivered onto the cart as we will not accept them in the front office. Middle school can be delivered between 10:20 am - 11:20 am and HS can be delivered between 11:15 am - 12:15 pm. BE SURE DELIVERY PERSON HAS YOUR STUDENTS NAME ON THE ORDER. We are not responsbile for lunches not marked with students names.