School begins at 8:15 a.m. every day and ends at 3:19 p.m. Every Mondayis an early release day on which students leave at 1:49 p.m. Please be on time to classes and do not arrive on campus before 7:45 a.m.

When at all possible, please notify us when your child is absent. A phone call to (928) 782-5174 is just fine and we ask for the call to come in before 9:00 a.m., or even before school begins. Absent students need to return with a note explaining the reason for being gone. An absence note is a must! Otherwise, we will record your student's absence as "unexcused."

Check in with the front office to let us know you want to take your student out of school early. Once you arrive in our office, we will notify the classroom teacher to send your student to the office. We will not dismiss students to walk alone to either go home or to appointments. You must be present to check out your child.

Student lunches cost $1.00. Students must enter their code when purchasing lunch. This procedure applies to all students regardless of free or reduced lunch status. We ask students to keep all lunch accounts up to date and to prepay accounts whenever possible to help speed up the lunch line and accounting process.

We ask that students come to school dressed ready to learn. Please wear clean and modest clothing. Wear your pants or shorts at the waistline. Shirts should be long enough that the student can tuck it in if necessary. We allow caps on campus, but not in the classroom, and students may wear knitted caps only when the weather is cold enough.

Please do not wear the following:

• baggy or sagging pants/shorts
• revealing clothing, midriff tops, spaghetti straps
• bandanas or hairnets
• clothing that portrays alcohol, drugs, sex, or vulgar language

Please refer to the student handbook (Español) for more information on the dress code.

Please do not bring the following items to school: radios, tape recorders, electronics of any kind, expensive jewelry, large sums of money, toys, cell phones, ipods, CD players, soft drinks, gum, or candy.

We try our best to return lost items to students, but we need your help. Whenever possible, please label your children's belongings. Be sure to label coats, sweaters, lunch pails, and anything else you would want returned to you if they were to get lost. We will store lost items in the front office, so please come by to claim your missing item.

Yes. City law does require your student to wear a helmet for safety reasons. We also have bike racks available for parking the bikes, and we require students to lock their bikes. Gila Vista Jr. High is not responsible for lost, stolen, or damaged bikes.

Yes. Yuma Elementary School District offers bus transportation for anyone living more than a mile away from campus. Please remind your students that riding the bus is a privilege. We require students to have thier Student I.D.s to board the bus each day from their designated bus stop. Please know your route, because the bus drivers will not allow you to switch your pick-up and drop-off locations. Students who misbehave on the bus will lose their bus riding privileges.

Please label all of your child's medications properly and keep them in the school health office. Only our school nurse will hand out the medicine to a student. Prescription medicines must be prescribed by a doctor and have documentation telling how much medicine the student must take and how often he/she should take it. Please be sure to contact the health office ahead of time if you want your child taking over-the-counter medicines, too.

We issue Report Card grades at the end of each quarter on the Thursday following the end of the quarter. We also issue Progress Report grades halfway through each quarter. Please see our calendar for specific dates.

We use the hundred-point grading scale as listed below:

A = 90-100 
B = 80-89 
C = 70-79 
D = 60-69 
F = Under 60

For more information on school policies, please refer to the student handbook (Español).