ALAMOSA — Now celebrating its second year, the Alamosa School District (ASD) is, again, going on the three-day Registration Road Tour and Back to School Bash to make it as easy (and fun) as possible to register students for the 2024-2025 school year.
On July 29-31, staff and volunteers with the Alamosa School District will go to three different locations for school registration. The event will end on the third night with a large event at Shooting Stars Cultural and Leadership Center and neighboring Historic Zapata Park in Alamosa.
On Monday, July 29, ASD staff will be at the Tierra Nueva Apartments at 600 Craft Dr. in Alamosa from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Bi-lingual and trilingual volunteers fluent in English, Spanish, and Q'anjob'al will also be on hand to help with registering students for school, filling out forms for lunch programs, and registering students for activities every Friday at the Boys and Girls Clubs of the San Luis Valley.
Backpacks with some of the basic school supplies listed for K-5 students and different supplies for middle and high school students will be provided if supplies last.
The next night, on Tuesday, July 30, the registration event will be held at the Century Mobile Home Park at 17th and State from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Just like the night before, tri-lingual volunteers will assist with registration for school, for lunch programs and for Fridays at the Boys and Girls Clubs. Backpacks and school supplies will also be provided to students as long as supplies last.
The registration tour will end with the big “Back to School Bash" on the third night, Wednesday, July 31, from 4:30 to 8 p.m., on the south side of Alamosa at the ASD Family Center in the Shooting Stars Cultural and Leadership Center, 807 Ross Ave., and Historic Zapata Park.
Like the other nights, bi-lingual and tri-lingual volunteers will assist families register their students for school, for lunch programs and for Boys and Girls Club activities on Fridays plus students will get a free backpack with basic school supplies, again as long as supplies last.
Ten barbers will also give free haircuts, fun activities and games for the students, free hot dogs, chips and drinks, and local non-profits offering new information.
Last year, the bash made school registration easy and fun. Instead of requiring students and families to come to the district to complete the process, school district staff and volunteers went to the neighborhoods where students and families live. The result was the registration of literally hundreds of students before the first day, allowing them to start the school year with business taken care of and backpacks with the supplies they needed.
"Last year was a huge success, and this year will be even bigger and better," Alamosa School District Assistant Superintendent Luis Murillo says, adding that, staff and volunteers have been busy stuffing 1,000 backpacks in preparation for the event. "ASD Family Center staff Jamie Madigan and Courtney Vigil are already working hard on the event along with all of our community partners. This is just one more example of how we are always improving,” says Murillo.
