Welcome to the Web Site of Gila Ridge High School, home of the Hawks. We are the newest school in the Yuma Union High School District. We hope you'll take some time to browse through our Web site. Be sure to see what's planned by visiting our School Calendar, enjoy the many Web resources on our Helpful Links pages, or meet our staff. You can also find answers to your questions, by visiting our Frequently Asked Questions page. Of course, if you have any comments or don't find your answers here, please Contact Us.

We Are Devoted To:

• Maintaining a safe & orderly environment.
• Sharing the responsibility for student learning
• Providing a rigorous, standards-based, aligned curriculum.
• Empowering our staff to be life-long learners who teach with passion.
• Building collaborative relationships based on loyalty, honor, integrity and trust.

Thank you for visiting the Gila Ridge High School website. This is an exciting time to be a Gila Ridge Hawk! Having completed a fantastic first year with our freshmen and sophomores, we are eagerly anticipating our new class of ninth graders. Our projected enrollment for the 2008-2009 school year is 1350 students.

Gila Ridge High School is a collaborative academic community. Our faculty work closely together to develop curriculum and assessments that are consistent from teacher to teacher. This practice provides a smooth, cohesive academic experience for our students.

Our students excel inside and outside the classroom at Gila Ridge High School. In our first year nineteen athletic programs and over twenty clubs, including the Hawk Chapter of the National Honor Society, were developed. We are looking forward to our first full year of varsity-level competition this year. With the election of student body officers, Student Council will be expanding its involvement as well.

As we embark on year two, we hope you will come out and support our Hawks. Every day is a great day to be a Hawk!

Sincerely,

James Sheldahl
Principal