Gary Independent School District

Gary ISD will be conducting an evacuation drill on Wednesday, March 26. This drill is part of our ongoing efforts to ensure the safety and preparedness of our school community. In advance of the drill, all students will be made aware of the drill and will receive guidance about the process so that they fully understand what will take place. Our goal is to provide a calm, informative experience to ensure everyone is prepared and aware of the procedures. We appreciate your support as we work together to keep our students and staff safe!

The Scholastic Book Fair is open! Don't forget to take a look at the Teacher Wish Boxes for great gift ideas for teachers! The fair is open Mon-Thurs 7:30AM to 4PM, with tomorrow staying open until 6PM!

Gary OAP advances again! The performers all earned 1’s from the judges! Jesse earned top performer! Kobi and Dax earned all star cast! Molly earned honorable mention all star cast! Avery earned a tech award! We are proud of our students’ successes and can’t wait for the next round at Union Grove!

It’s a great weekend for our Gary students! Kody Hall and Holden Brown won 3rd place at the Ultimate High School Fishing tournament in Toledo Bend! Huge thank you to Waymon Liles for being our students’ boat captain!

Calling all volunteers! If you'd like to help out with the Elementary Book Fair next week, we'd love to have you! You can go to the following link to sign up; https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090444A5AC2BA1F85-55778169-book#/

This Thursday at 5PM in the Cafeteria is our annual Mother-Son movie night! Come out and watch a fun movie with your little minion(s)! Candy, drink and popcorn is provided for each paid ticket. Ticket for mom and minion is $15, and just $5 per extra child!

Students show livestock animals for a variety of reasons, usually it is for the purpose of raising “market” animals- which will go into our food chain, or “breeding” animals which students use to increase their herds and grow a business. Cash Stutes exhibited his Registered Limousin Heifer at all of the major livestock shows in Texas, Cattleman’s Congress in Oklahoma and several other shows nationally this year as a 3rd grader. He wrapped up the year winning Champion Exotic heifer at the Panola County Junior Livestock Show and with a 6th place finish in Houston. Congrats, Cash!

Next week is our book fair at the Elementary Library! The book fair will be open Mon-Thurs, 7:30-4, with Tuesday staying open until 6pm. To celebrate, we will be having Dr. Seuss Dress-Up days in the Elementary, and Parent Appreciation days in the morning during breakfast in the cafeteria. Check out the flyer for more details!

We have a lot to celebrate, so this is going to be a long post! Monse Chavez is an 8th grade student and member of both Gary 4-H & Gary FFA who has traveled the United States showing her market and breeding goats with great success this school year. As the show season wraps up here in Texas, she starts to prepare for summer, fall and next spring with the purchase of new goats. Monse also raises show goats locally that she sells to students that are having great success! Monse’s Successes 2024/2025: 💙East Texas State Fair- Intermediate Showmanship Champion, 1st & 4th in class 💛State Fair of Texas- 5th place 💙Heart of Texas- Reserve Champion Wether Doe, 💛Division Champion Wether Doe 💙NAILE- 3rd in Showmanship, 7th place in class 💛Arizona Nationals- 11th in class 💙Fort Worth- 3rd Overall Junior Showmanship, 8th in class 💛Panola County- Reserve Overall Market Doe, raised the Champion Overall Market GOAT, Champion Senior Showmanship 💙Houston- 8th place in class The “classes” at these shows are not small and only the “best” from around the country and state attend these events! Being in the top 20 on any given day is outstanding! Congrats Monse! Connally and Colston Cranford have spent the last year prepping for this years show season. This is not an easy or simple task! Raising lambs locally in Gary along with finding competitive lambs to show at county and every major livestock show in Texas is a family affair for the Cranford's. We would like to congratulate the entire family on their success both in and outside of the show ring! They have taken several families under their wings and assist Gary 4-H and FFA with all lamb projects! Connally even taught Ms. Shadix how to show a lamb! This years placings for the Cranfords: 🐑Houston -15th place FWX- MAKING THE SALE! 🐑Panola County - Grand Champion market lamb & 2nd place 🐑Fort Worth- 9th, 12th and 22nd place 🐑Heart Of Texas - 7th place FWX 12th place MW 🐑East Texas State Fair- 3rd & 4th place FWX They have both been showmanship champions, division and breed champions at many shows. Last, but never least this past week three Gary FFA students exhibited their Market Broilers at the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo against over 600 other showmen from across the state. Hannah Yarborough placed 35th and Brannan Stevens placed 64th, both of these placings qualified them for the live auction where they received $2400 and $2300, respectively. Brodey Seals did not place in the top 100, but exhibiting at the HLSR helps qualify him for a future $20,000 exhibitor scholarship! We even have students at the Houston today to compete with their Market Barrows, and hope to give updates about their performance soon! Congrats to all of these students and their families on their successes!

Congratulations to our GHS Production on their win today at district contest! They are now district champs and on to the next round next Saturday! Madison Smith earned honor tech as our stage manager. Tailor Willis and Molly Powell earned honorable mention all-star cast. Daxton Evans and Kobi Roehl earned all-star cast. Our senior performer, Jesse Goodman, earned top performer!

Coach Reed will be hosting basketball skills training for Elementary girls grades 1st-6th on Sunday on the Elementary gym! 1st-4th will be from 3PM-4PM and 5th-6th from 4PM-5PM.

Today’s Baseball game at West Rusk has been canceled and will be rescheduled at a later date!

We know you all have been waiting! Introducing our 2025-2026 Cheerleaders! We are proud of all students who participated in the tryouts this year!

Yearbook orders have begun! The 2024-2025 yearbook, Beneath The Surface, is available for pre-order. Forms are going home today, but you can also purchase it online! Check out the flyer for more details.

The results are in for this week in our eSports matches! Congratulations to all the teams that won!

We wish all of our students trying out for cheer the best of luck at today's tryouts! Parents, if you plan on coming, we ask that you do not park on the curb in front of the high school to help us with afternoon student pickup! Parents and families can start dropping off goodies for their student starting at 1PM in the HS Commons!

Next week, Mr. Davis will be hosting a Freshman Orientation meeting for all 8th graders and their families! It will be on on Tuesday, March 18th at 5PM in the GISD Cafeteria. Students and parents will learn more about graduation plans, high school expectations, dual credit, as well as choosing their classes for their 9th grade year!

This Saturday, Gary Production competes at the district level at Panola. The plays start at 11am and run back to back with Gary going 4th (around 1:45 or so). The OAP event will be held at the Q. M. Martin Auditorium. It means a lot to these young artists when you come to support them!

With cheer tryouts happening this Friday, we know many families and friends would like to drop off goodies for their students trying out! We will gladly hold them and deliver them to students, but we ask that you please do not begin dropping them off until Friday at 1PM!

This Wednesday, Lifetouch will be here to take our Spring Sports photos! If you are interested in purchasing these, check out the flyer!