{"id":338635,"date":"2026-05-30T04:14:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/338635\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T04:14:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:14:33","slug":"mcclymonds-high-student-wins-5k-for-school-attendance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/338635\/","title":{"rendered":"McClymonds High student wins $5K for school attendance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/qfu39aeh69nkgvnh.jpg\" alt=\"McClymonds High student wins $5,000 for attendance\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; A West Oakland high school student was awarded $5,000 for her consistent school attendance.<\/p>\n<p>   Attendance challenge <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Hannah Jenkins, a junior attending McClymonds High School, did not know she would be receiving the prize on Wednesday and said she was actually shocked by the surprise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The major prize comes through the &#8220;Oakland Natives Give Back&#8221; organization and their &#8220;Every Day Counts Attendance Challenge,&#8221; which routinely rewards local students for great school attendance.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Jenkins&#8217; mother originally signed her up for the attendance challenge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">After receiving the $5,000 award on campus, Jenkins shared a direct message for other students who might currently struggle with getting to class regularly.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;You need school at the end of the day,&#8221; Jenkins said. &#8220;Now maybe if you don&#8217;t wanna&#8230; so just go to school, period.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Hannah already has big plans for the surprise windfall. She says she wants to use the money to invest in her future college career, with the ultimate goal of becoming a real estate agent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: OUSD, Hannah Jenkins<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/alameda-county\/oakland\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/education\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Education<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; A West Oakland high school student was awarded $5,000 for her consistent school attendance. Attendance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,1184,15,100,143,145,144,1181],"class_list":["post-338635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-ca","tag-education","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}