Updates and Events
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Learn more about Minnesota's Community COVID-19 Vaccine Pilot Program.
![Middle school students walking from a school bus to the front of the school]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1576172323/rochesterk12mnus/oiogiqzkyqq4svsyhkrr/BellTimeStudy.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1576172323/rochesterk12mnus/oiogiqzkyqq4svsyhkrr/BellTimeStudy.jpg","width":512}])
The conversation around bell times for students have occurred for many years, and the School Board revisited this conversation once more to discuss pushing up the start date.
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RPS Student Nutrition Services will now be offering daytime and evening meal kit pick-up at Graham Park.
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MN Legislature passed SF31, which provides an extension of the deadline for certifying free and reduced-price meal applications for this school year only. The extension allows schools to continue to certify Applications for Educational Benefits, Alternate Applications for Educational Benefits and direct certification through January 4, 2021.
Learn more about our school.
Bamber Valley Elementary School serves students in kindergarten through fifth grade. We welcome about 840 students to school every day. We are a neighborhood school and we are also the home of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program for Rochester Public Schools.
We would love to have you come and visit our school to see the great things our students are doing.