Weekly Parent Newsletter

Posted Date: 04/19/26 (05:57 PM)

GHS Family Newsletter

April 19, 2026

Adam Anderson, Principal of Graham High School

Principal's Corner

Hello Parents and Community,

This past Thursday we had our VU Launch Party. VU is a company that partners with colleges, universities, and trade school throughout the nation to connect students to these schools by offering them scholarships based on their GPA. We had 72 juniors and seniors who signed up to try it out. We invited all students and teachers down to the gym to help us celebrate students and were grateful for the drum line and cheer leaders to help get the crowd excited. Mrs. Chapman led the organization of the event and did a wonderful job. I am happy to share that our 72 students received 4,288 offers totaling $206,765,045. I look forward to offering this to even more of our junior class next year!

Our students competed hard at Area Track in Abilene this week and we have several going to Regionals in two weeks. Our Lady Blue Softball Team completed their season this week. I want to congratulate them for all their hard work this season and a huge thank you to Coach Arrington for all of his time spent coaching up these young ladies. Mr. Sanders took 12 students to Wichita Falls this past week to receive their welding certification. It consisted of two parts and I am happy to say that 9 of the 12 students received their certification! Our students had Prom this weekend and I am grateful to all the Junior parents who helped make it an unforgettable evening.

This next week is busy again. Good luck to our Tennis Team as they go to compete at the Regional Tournament in Lubbock this week. Good luck to our Academic UIL Team as they go compete in Lubbock as well this week. We have the Biology and US History STAAR Tests as well.

Thank you for your support every day for our students and staff.

Respectfully,

Adam Anderson

Principal

Graham Safe

Upcoming Drills

We will have a fire drill and lockdown drill this month.

Upcoming Events

Mark Your Calendars

Upcoming Events for GHS

April 20th-21st: Regional Tennis Tournament in Lubbock
April 21st: STAAR Biology EOC
April 21st: Steers Baseball vs Glen Rose JV @ 4:30pm and Varsity @ 7pm
April 22nd: STAAR US History EOC
April 22nd-23rd: UIL Regional Academic Meet

April 27th: Scholarship Award Night
April 28th: STAAR Algebra I EOC
April 29th: STAAR Algebra I EOC
April 30th: Spring Band Concert @ Memorial Auditorium at 7pm
April 30th: Parent Drug Test Meeting @5:30pm
May 2nd: Band Banquet @ 6pm

May 4th: Academic Signing Day
May 5th: Top 10% Reception
May 7th: FFA Banquet @6pm
May 8th: No School (Bad Weather Day)

May 12th: All Sports Varsity Banquet @5:30pm
May 15th: No School (Bad Weather Day)

May 18th: Reverse Parade @6:30pm
May 19th: Senior Field Day @9am
May 20th: Senior Walk @9am
May 21st: Graduation Rehearsal @9am
May 22nd: Graduation Rehearsal @10am
May 22nd: Graduation @ Newton Field at 8pm

What's Happening at GHS...

VU Scholarship Launch

We are grateful to GPEF for awarding our counseling department a grant to partner with VU (pronounced "View") to help connect our students with colleges, universities, and technical schools BEFORE applying by showing students what scholarships these schools are willing to offer them based on their GPA. Utilizing this unique process, students can receive provisional scholarship offers from VU Scholarships’ Post-Secondary partners instantaneously, opening up the student's mind to college choices they have yet to consider.

Thank you to Mrs. Chapman for taking this on and planning the entire event. Congratulations to our 72 students, who received 4,288 scholarship offers, totaling over $200 million!

Lady Blues and Steers Compete at Area Track

Congratulations to all of our athletes that competed at the Area Track Meet in Abilene on Friday. They showed up and competed.

We are excited to announce the students who qualified for the Regional Track Meet in Lubbock on May 1st and 2nd:

Madison Cauble-Shot Put

Emerie Stogner-High Jump

Ava Street-Pole Vault

Kaden Atwood-100m dash and 4x200

Katie McGehee-4x200

Emily Hughes-4x200

Bentleigh Martin-4x200

Caden Hulsey-800m run and 1600m run

Andon Masterfield-110m Hurdles and 300m Hurdles

Interested in Athletic Training?

All 9th-11th Graders: If you are interested in being an athletic trainer, please see the attached flyer from Coach Arnzen (Sims).

Use of Personal Electronics

We are seeing an increase in use of students bringing their personal laptops to school and wanting to use them. State law and district policy state that students can not use their personal electronic device at school. Please help us by reminding your student that they need to leave their personal laptops and other personal electronics at home. Thank you for your support in this.

13th Annual Family Fun and Fishing

Please see the attached flier for the Wyatt Dale Water Safety Family Fun & Fishing Day on April 25, 2026 presented by Graham Savings.

Testing Dates

The spring semester is a very busy time of year in terms of testing. Please keep these dates in mind as you plan ahead. There will be makeup days following each STAAR EOC exam. Here are the testing dates we currently have scheduled:

April 21st: STAAR Biology EOC
April 22nd: STAAR US History EOC
April 28th-29th: STAAR Algebra I EOC
May 4th: AP Biology, AP European History, AP Microeconomics
May 5th: AP Chemistry, AP Government
May 6th: AP English Literature and Composition (12th), AP Physics
May 6th: ServSafe Manager Exam
May 11th: PLTW Biomed EOC
May 8th: AP US History
May 11th: AP Calculus AB
May 12th: AP Pre-Calculus
May 13th: AP English Language and Composition (11th)
May 14th: AP Spanish
May 15th: AP Environmental Science

Senior Dates

These will continue to be updated but I wanted you have the dates that have been confirmed.

April 23rd: Lion's Club Honor Banquet
April 27th: Scholarship Awards Night
May 4th: Academic Signing Day
May 5th: Top 10% Banquet
May 18th: Reverse Parade
May 19th: Senior Field Day
May 20th: Senior Walk
May 21st: Graduation Rehearsal
May 22nd: Graduation Rehearsal

Facilities Planning Committee

Here is the link to GISD website where all information and the presentations and handouts from each month's meetings are posted. Feel free to look over this to see what is being discussed and share with friends and neighbors. This past week the subcommittees met together to discuss the greatest needs in each of their areas. The subcommittee on Capital Improvements and Transportation presented to the whole group wit their recommendations. Next month, the rest of the subcommittees will present to the whole group.

Staff and Student Shoutouts

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