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Rasa Mitruleviciene, chair of the Lithuanian Community of Eastern Long Island, as well as two school's alumni Vilia Baumilas and Justas Klimavicius, came to congratulate the graduates and to encourage them to continue to participate in school's and community's lives.

In spring five current students, as well as two school's graduates, together with more that 160 young people all around the globe took Lithuanian Language Proficiency Test for youth. This test was created by Vilnius University, initiated by the Kazickas Family Foundation and a group of Lithuanian Heritage Schools of the US with a big help from the Ministry of Education and Science of Lithuania. Youth that pass it, receive Vilnius University diploma. A. Kazickas Lithuanian School is very proud of it's students. They all passed the test and received such diplomas. Few older students already submitted such diploma together with additional paperwork to their current high schools in the US and received 1-3 high school credits for Lithuanian as a heritage/foreign language. School also thanks the teachers who tested the students. They were trained at the special seminar, sponsored by the Kazickas Family Foundation, in Boston. Two school's teachers, Renata Petrauskiene and Ramune Kurbanoviene, went through such training and received official VU certificates allowing them to test the students.

School also is excited to share that after many years of planning, finally adult class was established. Currently it has three students and hopefully more will join in the years to come.

This school year students participated at the art contest organized by the Lithuanian Educational Council of the USA and dedicated to the Lithuanian Traditional Costume. Three school's students, Edward Staatckevicius, Ieva Tarasevicius and Ema Vilcinskaite won first places in their age groups and Lukas Rahbari got the second.

School's students also participated at the script writing contest "For You, Lithuania" organized by the Emilija Pliateryte school in Lithuania, where four school's students, Greta Anselm, Kai Genender, Danielius Romero-Vysockis and Ieva Tarasevicius won top places among the children their age.

Alexandra Kazickas Lithuanian School family takes a lot of pride in its students' accomplishments throughout school's 11 years since opening in 2006. Many schools students won top places at the essay and art contests organized by the Lithuanian Educational Council of the USA:

In 2008-2009 school's student Roberta Kurbanovaite won third place in her age group for describing Lithuanian features praised in the Lithuanian National Anthem.

In 2010-2011 Aiste Furajevaite and Justas Klimavicius won second and third places accordingly among the students their age for the drawing contest "Road to the Reestablishment of Lithuanian Independence."

In 2011-2012 school's student Lukas Budrys won first place for postal stamp he created for the upcoming Lithuanian Dance Festival in Boston, while Patricija Naskauskaite got the first place as well for a poem "Lithuania."

In 2012-2013 Justas Klimavicius wrote in his essay: "We, the Lithuanians, are connected here in the US through the language. Language allows me to interact with other Lithuanians and to call them my brothers and sisters. Language allows me to speak and to understand what my grandparents and parents say. It doesn't matter how far from Lithuania I live, more importantly, I understand Lithuanian." For those beautiful words Justas received first place in the contest "Why Language is Important."

In 2013-2014 Aiden Genender, Smiltene Jankunaite and Justas Klimavicius won second, first and third places accordingly in their age groups in the essay contest "My Lithuanian Family and I" based on K. Donelaitis "The Seasons."

In 2015-2016 Nicholas Devoe and Ema Vilcinskaite won second and third places accordingly in the age groups for drawings "Telling the Story," while Lukas Baumilas and once again Ema Vilcinskaite won second places among the students their age from 26 different Lithuanian schools for essays with the same topic.