Desert Ridge Junior News
This year the historic Gilbert Days Parade will take place Saturday, November 23rd, and for the 8th year running every GPS school will be represented! The theme is decades and each group of students will proudly represent a different decade in the 111-year history of our school district.
The Arizona Department of Education (ADE) has released the 2023-24 School Letter Grades. For the 2023-24 school year Gilbert Public Schools has achieved an ‘A’ letter grade for our school district. Further, all GPS schools have achieved either an ‘A’ or ‘B’ letter grade, rating them as excellent or highly performing by the Arizona Department of Education.
Happy Veterans Day! Thank you to all who have served. All schools and district Offices Closed Monday, November 11th.
Desert Ridge High School and Desert Ridge Junior High are more than just neighboring schools; they are partners in education, working together to provide students with unique learning opportunities.
Thank you for all of your efforts to ensure your child wears their student ID badge. We appreciate your support with this important safety and security initiative.
As we communicated at the beginning of this school year all of our students who ride a bus must have their Student ID Badges to ride the bus to and from school every day.