March 4, 2022

Great Hearts re-enrollment emails for current 6th - 11th-grade students were sent on Tuesday, March 1. Please check your email and submit your intent to return for the upcoming school year by electronically submitting your re-enrollment registration and emailing your AZ Proof of Residency documentation to mbogren@areteprepacademy.org. It is now mandatory for all families to re-submit their AZ Proof of Residency documentation during re-enrollment. The deadline to complete re-enrollment is Friday, March 25.

UPDATE: Rising Senior Night (juniors only): Mon, Mar 28; details coming soon

CORRECTION: 10th Grade Charger Camp: Mar 16-18

11th & 12th Grade Coffee Shop: Tues, Mar 22 @ 8:40 am in the front office

All Middle School Coffee Shop: Tues, Apr 5 @ 6:30 pm via Zoom

All High School Coffee Shop: Thurs, Apr 21 @ 6:30 pm via Zoom

CLICK HERE for the Family Calendar

The practice of philanthropy is something we ask of our families at Arete. Greek playwright Aeschylus minted the term philanthropy in the 5th century -- It means “love of humanity.” Philanthropy is defined as giving time, talent, and treasure to help make life better for other people. As a charitable non-profit organization, Arete calls our families to philanthropic action, through volunteering and fundraising efforts, making life better for our community and ultimately, our society at large.

Arete would like to highlight the Oetjen family, who started including their boys, Clay and Crew, in the process of their family’s giving when they were in just 3^rd grade at Archway Arete. Clay and Crew have set out year after year in their grandmother’s neighborhood, along with her support, and asked neighbors, family, and friends to redirect their tax money to Arete instead of to the state. These tax credits have provided over half the funding for extracurricular, character-building activities such as athletics, after school programs and field trips at archway and prep.

Now 10^th and 8^th graders, Clay and Crew have given their time to raise an estimated $20,000+ for Arete. They have directly impacted Arete’s students and the mission we are so proud to offer – an education and school culture that all students deserve.

Attention student drivers that do NOT have a paid parking spot on campus! Several student drivers have been seen parking in the archway parking lot, PLEASE DO NOT PARK IN THEIR PARKING LOT. 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, cars may be ticketed or towed.Thank you for helping to be good neighbors to those around us!

Senior's had their group picture taken recently and familes can order pictures, CLICK HERE for the website and use this UPDATED order code: LF9PX2KG6

Grand Canyon University offers free tutoring for grades K - 12. The tutors are GCU students and they have online, phone and in-person availability. CLICK HERE for more information.

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.

Financial Aid Night for 9^th - 11^th grade families – currently being organized, more details to come

Visit our College Counseling webpages and resources 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 lab notebook 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.