The school year ended on May 29, with senior project presentations scheduled for June 1 and Commencement on June 7. The Rubicon will resume reporting in August.

The Rubicon by the numbers

The publication year ran from our first story on Aug. 21, 2025, about the opening assembly. Since that time, we have published 655 stories on the online site across 35 weeks of school, which averages to approximately 80 stories each month, 19 stories per 7-day week or 2-3 stories per day.

… and The Rubicon published 132 pages of print content.

Most read story in the last 7 days: “Departing teachers Koenig, van Vliet, Wriedt and Hodges appreciated” – The Rubicon – 96 views

The most read story this year was Grace Berger’s news report: “Ice presence on Indigenous land opens old wounds” which was viewed over 1,900 times and was awarded Best of SNO.

“Spilling the Tea: Starbucks and Caribou…” is the 5th most viewed story on the site and has been read over 1,000 times since it was published over a year ago.

The most viewed Instagram post was published on Sep. 18, 2025, about Spartan boys varsity soccer beating MPA 2-0 during Homecoming week. The post had 9,136 views.

In the last 30 days, The RubicOnline website has had 45,605 unique viewers.
The RubicOnline has welcomed 481,888 total viewers this past year.

Every view, comment, share and story tip helped make this year of journalism possible. Thank you for being part of our audience and for supporting student journalism throughout the year. We are extremely grateful for your readership and look forward to sharing more stories with you this fall.