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"Never give up. Just because you come from a bad situation doesn't mean you have to stay in that situation forever." - Brierre Bryant, 🎓GPHS
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Wrestling Adversity | GPISD Senior Spotlight Grand Prairie High School senior Brierre Bryant embraces wrestling to overcome struggles at home on her high school journey.

“Be confident, be positive, and give respect to the people who gave you their time.” - Anthony Arias, 🎓GPHS
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Be Confident, Be Positive | GPISD Senior Spotlight Grand Prairie High School senior shares how a positive attitude and a love of music helped him throughout his high school journey.

Tune in LIVE at the link below for the Grand Prairie High School class of 2024 Graduation at 9am!

Graduation Information / Graduation Links to watch the live graduation ceremonies will be available on this page during graduation. The graduation schedule is below, please check back during the event to watch the class of 2024 graduate!

Grand Prairie ISD thanks you for your patience as we gather all the information regarding the guidelines for the changed venue. To see updated details regarding the 2024 high school graduation ceremonies, please visit https://www.gpisd.org/graduation Again, thank you for your patience and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
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Attention Parents and 2024 graduates
At this time there is still no power at Texas Trust CU Theatre and Oncor has reported that the damage is extensive and there is no estimated time of restoration. Therefore, we are postponing today’s scheduled graduation until Friday, May 31. Both graduation ceremonies will take place at Ellis Davis Field House located at 9191 South Polk Street, Dallas, Texas 75232. Grand Prairie High School graduation will take place at 9:00 a.m. and South Grand Prairie High School graduation will take place at 1:00 p.m.
In addition, Thursday’s scheduled graduations will also take place at Ellis Davis Field House at the originally scheduled times.
We understand that graduation is a special time in the lives of our graduating seniors and their families. Our goal is to make sure we honor our graduates despite the fact that these circumstances are unfortunately out of our control. We are thankful to our friends at Dallas ISD who have graciously offered their facility to us.
Tickets that have been issued will be used for admittance to the venue. Upon arrival, there is no reserved seating, first come first served. Doors open one hour before each ceremony.
We appreciate your understanding and apologize for the inconvenience this has caused. We look forward to seeing you at graduation Friday, May 31, 2024.

Attention SGPHS and GPHS senior class of 2024

Texas Trust CU Theatre, the location for tomorrow’s graduation ceremonies, does not currently have power due to the storms in North Texas last night. We have been working with Oncor and the City of Grand Prairie throughout the day in the hopes that power could be restored as quickly as possible. As many of you know, that has not yet happened. We will continue to monitor this situation and communicate with you by 9 a.m. Wednesday morning to let you know if we will be able to proceed with graduation as planned.

If power is not restored, we will reschedule tomorrow’s graduation ceremonies for Friday, May 31. The Grand Prairie High School graduation would be at 9:00 a.m. on Friday and the South Grand Prairie High School graduation would be at 1:00 p.m.

We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.

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Attention SGPHS and GPHS senior class of 2024

Texas Trust CU Theatre, the location for tomorrow's graduation ceremonies, does not currently have power due to the storms in North Texas last night. We have been working with Oncor and the City of Grand Prairie throughout the day in the hopes that power could be restored as quickly as possible. As many of you know, that has not yet happened. We will continue to monitor this situation and communicate with you by 9 a.m. Wednesday morning to let you know if we will be able to proceed with graduation as planned.

If power is not restored, we will reschedule tomorrow's graduation ceremonies for Friday, May 31. The Grand Prairie High School graduation would be at 9:00 a.m. on Friday and the South Grand Prairie High School graduation would be at 1:00 p.m.

We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.

UPDATE: We have given out all of our extra graduation tickets. There are no more left.

to these talented student artists!

Jonathan Hinojosa:
🥇1st Place Winner of the 2024 Congressional Art Competition for Texas' 33rd District/ Congressman Marc Veasey. His self-portrait, "Self & Mind," will hang in the U.S. Capitol Building for one year, and he will be honored at a reception there this summer!

William Anoka:
🥈2nd Place - Congressional Art Competition for Texas' 30th District/ Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett.

Angielena Barron Argueta:
🏅4th Place - Congressional Art Competition for Texas' 33rd District/ Congressman Marc Veasey.

Grand Prairie ISD

🗣️We already know that senior show choir member, Omar Lopez, is one of the best of the best - but now the state knows!!

🥇Omar earned a Superior rating today at State Solo and Ensemble competition in Austin!

Grand Prairie ISD

Did you know that the Grand Prairie ISD CTE Teacher of the Year is a GOPHER?!
We are so proud of Ms. Alberter!!!

Gopher families,

We are looking forward to a great last week of school here at Grand Prairie High School. To help us ensure a safe and successful last week of school, backpacks, drawstring bags, and large purses will not be allowed during the week of Tuesday, May 21st through Thursday, May 23rd.

This measure is being taken out of an abundance of caution in order to protect the safety of students and staff. Students will only need school-issued devices, a writing utensil, and semester exam review materials. Students can carry small hygiene bags or medical monitoring devices.

We appreciate your cooperation in this.

Let's have a great last week of school!

Laigha Boyle,
GPHS Principal

GOPHERS! Don't forget!
ALL school-issued technology must be brought to campus on MONDAY, MAY 20th!

*iPads
*Laptops
*Chargers
*Cases

***Bring all school-issued technology no matter what condition it is in (ex: cracked, broken) - BRING IT ANYWAY!***

Help us give a big congratulations to Grand Prairie Early College High School Gopher, Maribel Rodriguez!
She's heading to The University of Texas at Austin on a FULL-RIDE as a Terry Foundation scholarship recipient!

to our fourth and final Student of Character for the 2023-24 school year, Christopher Phillips!

"Chris is always polite, kind, and helpful to students and staff. He is a great example of what it means to be a Gopher." - Ms. Gray

"Chris is an amazing young man. He continually has a smile on his face and he is everywhere on campus. He does a wonderful job as videographer during the football games and always has a kind word and helpful smile everyday on campus." - Assistant Principal Ornelas

Pillars of Character:
✅Trustworthiness
✅Respect
✅Responsibility
✅Fairness
✅Caring
✅Citizenship

to these talented Mariachi Azul student musicians! They each earned superior ratings at UIL Regional competition. They are heading to state competition in Austin later this month!

🏅Eduardo Banuelos - Trumpet Solo and Ensemble
🏅David Garcia - Vocal Solo
🏅Irving Sanchez - Trumpet Ensemble
🏅Evan Moreno - Trumpet Solo
🏅Alvaro Medina - Trumpet Ensemble
🏅Fernando Banuelos - Violin Solo

Grand Prairie ISD

🗣️Gopher families!

LAST CHANCE to buy a 2024 GPHS yearbook!!!
The link closes TONIGHT (May 13th) at midnight! ⏰

GPHS Yearbook 2024 Pay for school meals and fees securely online! With MySchoolBucks, parents can also view cafeteria purchases, access meal balances, register for activities, purchase event tickets, browse school items, and more.

🎓We are so proud of Estiven!!!🎓

Estiven Manzanarez from Grand Prairie High School is the Senior Spotlight for today. Estiven worked diligently to overcome a language barrier that he faced when he started at GPHS, just three short years ago. He has become very active in AVID, Gopher Legacy, and LULAC. His heart is to leave a legacy for other newcomer students, so they know they can do anything they put their minds to. He would like to help other newcomers find their niche at GPHS, so they achieve success in their high school experience too. GPHSGophers

Thank you, Gateway Grand Prairie for providing lunch for our teachers today!!! 💙🫶💙



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to our May Gophers of the Month!

Teacher of the Month: Tessa Gonzales
Staff Member of the Month: Darla Walker
Senior of the Month: William Hernandez
Senior of the Month: Madison Clayton
Junior of the Month: Amiya Fezia
Sophomore of the Month: Anthony Haynes
Freshman of the Month: Dora Cortez

Tessa Gonzales
“Mrs. Gonzales always has a positive attitude.” – Xiomara Lopez

Darla Walker
“Mrs. Walker is the mother that we all need. She is firm but gentle; quiet, but you know she's there. She's our cheerleader and makes you want to do good.” – Mrs. Parker-Brown

William Hernandez
“William has worked hard in ECHS and athletics to earn a football scholarship. He has a heart of gold and shows the utmost respect to anyone he comes in contact with.” – Mrs. Parker-Brown

Madison Clayton
“Madison is an outstanding student academically and socially. She is a leader with excellent grades and a model student of character. She is a trustworthy and respectful young lady. She does the right thing even when no one is looking. She is responsible with juggling drill team and ECHS and always keeps a smile on her face.” – Mrs. Walker

Amiya Fezia
“Amiya is truly a ray of sunshine on our campus. She is always smiling, positive, and sharing her light with everyone she encounters. Her curiosity for learning and exuberance for life are infectious; you cannot be around her and not smile.” – Ms. Gray

Anthony Haynes
“Anthony is an amazing student with great character!” – Christine Garcia

Dora Cortez
“Dora is an amazing young lady in class.” – Christine Garcia

to GPHS Pride of the Prairie Percussion Section Leader senior, Jonathan Armendariz for earning a Superior Rating 1 in UIL Regional Solo and Ensemble!
Best of luck at state competition later this month, Jonathan!!!

Way to go, ECHS Gophers!

to these Early College Gophers!

HOSA Area competition:
3rd Place - William Anoka (Top 5 in Area 3)
Qualified in Medical Math
Advanced to State Competition in Galveston

ECHS Parliamentary Procedure Team qualified for Spring Leadership Conference!
Itzel Valdez
Yaritsa Ovalle
Esther Alonge
Sikirat Jabita
Alejandra G. Nieves Quintana
Brianna Perez
Genesis Barron
Leo Castro

to our AP teachers and students for putting in focus and dedication to prepare for AP exams!

"These teachers continue to motivate students to work through a challenging course and have maintained 50-70 students in their tutorial sessions. They work collaboratively, valuing each other's experience." - Mrs. Parker-Brown, Academic Facilitator.

to our December Gophers of the Month!

Teacher of the Month: Judith Houssou
Staff Member of the Month: Natalie Boydston
Senior of the Month: Julian Gallegos
Senior of the Month: Maribel Rodriguez
Junior of the Month: Tsade Granados
Sophomore of the Month: Christopher Avalos
Freshman of the Month: Christian Avery

Judith Houssou:
“She is amazing! I sometimes feel like LOTE is overlooked. She organized the whole French week and had many great activities with her students. She’s an amazing teacher.” – Ms. Pamela Ramirez

Natalie Boydston:
“Her attitude is always outstanding. She is positive and consistent.” – Kyla Schooling

Julian Gallegos:
“Julian is not only very involved on campus in show choir, STUCO, and theater, but he’s always cheering on his classmates from the stands as well. He’s a good kid.” – Ms. Birkett

Maribel Rodriguez:
“Wow, what an amazing young lady! She’s in my AP Spanish lit class, she’s an officer in STUCO, and she’s president of the National Spanish Honor Society.” – Ms. Pamela Ramirez

Tsade Granados:
“She not only excels in class, she is a natural leader in and out of class. She is the president of the mock trial team and helped the team go to state three years in a row. She is the SLT for the legal studies pathway. She helps her classmates with daily work, especially in her advanced legal skills class. I can always count on her to help me and others.” – Ms. Tigert

Christopher Avalos:
“Chris is so driven and was always prepared for class. He always encouraged classmates to do their work, come to class, and be prepared. – Ms. Morrison

Christian Avery:
“Christian is a hardworking student who always strives to do his very best.” - Mr. Molina