Schools

Alex Torres had the tail end of his senior year at Gilroy High School taken away from him as the coronavirus pandemic forced the school to shut down. All his plans for prom, graduation and the senior trip to Six Flags Magic Mountain were gone...

One year after the Gilroy Unified School District shut down its classrooms to in-person instruction, students could return to campus in mid-April. The district’s Board of Education will consider a plan on March 18 that would bring students back to the classroom April 15-20. The district’s...

Online enrollment for the 2021-22 school year, including transitional kindergarten and kindergarten, is now open in the Gilroy Unified School District.   Families can enroll students using the Aeries Student Information platform.  Enrollment in GUSD schools is ongoing. Families who wish to enroll their child in the...

The Christopher High School Marching Band was one of many marching bands from throughout the country that performed in the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco on Feb. 8. More than 100 groups participated in the parade, which was seen by 3 million...

Selecting students for the Gilroy Dispatch’s annual senior spotlight honor is no enviable task. That’s why we make the principals, school counselors and staff sort it out. These students have navigated the labyrinth of high school hurdles, and we are inspired by their optimistic...

With a yearlong, school-wide theme of “Changing the World,” third-grade students at Rod Kelley Elementary School decided as their community service project to hold a canned food drive for local needy families for the Thanksgiving holiday. The third-graders partnered with the Salvation Army and even...

Ken Christopher sat in the library at Las Animas Elementary School, where he was being asked the tough questions. Why did the bear get the honey, and not the bees? Shouldn’t the elephant have a peanut instead of garlic? The executive vice president of Christopher Ranch...

On Oct. 21, 24 Gilroy FFA members traveled to Live Oak High School to compete against five other schools at the annual sectional opening and closing competition.  The Opening and Closing Ceremony Leadership Development Event (LDE) is designed to develop agricultural leadership by providing members...

A self-motivated group of local high school students, calling themselves “STEAM4Students,” has been teaching afterschool lessons for the last three years at various Gilroy elementary schools in a joint effort to improve early childhood development. Co-director Michal Stolarski said the student-created and student-run organization is...

Gilroy High School celebrated its nearly 340 graduates with a socially distanced in-person ceremony on its football field June 3. The event included speeches by valedictorian Audrey Kaefer and salutatorian Nathanael Gorelik. Principal Greg Kapaku said the students have “witnessed trials and tragedy never...