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Welcome to the home page for Gettysburg Area High School, a US News and World Report Silver Medal Best High School in PA for 2015, 2016, and 2017!
Mission -
Gettysburg Area High School will establish an environment of respect and integrity as our collaborative community creates opportunities to engage learners in experiences that provoke critical thought and challenge their creative intelligences.
Vision -
Gettysburg Area High School ensures that all learners have access to a rigorous curriculum of experiences that will develop into a personally relevant pathway to future success and ultimately mold citizens who will make positive and meaningful contributions to the world around them.
Jeremy Lusk, Principal
(717) 334-6254, opt. 2, ext 6282
jlusk@gettysburg.k12.pa.us
Kristy Caywood, Assistant Principal (9th-10th)
(717) 334-6254, opt. 2, ext. 6253
kcaywood@gettysburg.k12.pa.us
Ronald Wales, Assistant Principal (11th-12th)
(717) 334-6254, opt. 2, ext. 6282
rwales@gettysburg.k12.pa.us
What's happening at GAHS?... Academic Awards Ceremony on Wednesday (9/5) celebrating academic commitment and success...
Tuesday, September 18
Today is MOD 3 ARC Priority Day.
All Gettysburg High School students are encouraged to try out for the Fall Play! Auditions will be held in the GHS auditorium this Thursday and Friday from 2:45 to 4:00pm. The play is The Drunkard, a classic melodrama filled with true love, human frailty, and the battle between good and evil. The show will run November 16 and 17. Selections of the play will be provided for all auditions.
Be part of Warrior Spirit Night TONIGHT for the Girls Soccer match at 6pm. See you in our home stadium tonight!
Seniors: Take time tomorrow afternoon to attend the Fall College Application Open House. Come to the GHS cafeteria from 2:00-3:30pm to meet with representatives from a wide array of colleges and post graduate institutions. Sign up in the Counseling Center, and we can have your transcripts ready.
The following colleges and universities will be visiting this fall. If you would like to meet with them, please stop by the Counseling Center office the morning of the scheduled visit to pick up a pass. Take advantage of this opportunity!
Tuesday, September 18
1:00pm Elizabethtown College
Wednesday, September 19
1:00pm Pennsylvania College of Technology
2:00-3:30pm Fall College Application Open House
Thursday, September 20
10:15am Johnson & Wales University
Friday, September 21
10:00am Penn State University
To access Its Learning from home, students and teachers should both login with their username@gettysburgschools.org
(For example John Doe is in the class of 2017, their login would be jdoe17@gettysburgschools.org).
The password will be the same as their computer/network password that they use to log in at school.
Support the Gettysburg Area Education Foundation when you shop on Amazon. Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of eligible AmazonSmile purchases to GAEF when our charitable organizations is selected by you!
Which items are eligible for the 0.5% donation? Any item sold on the AmazonSmile Site which is marked "Eligible for AmazonSmile donation" on the relevant item detail page.
The Gettysburg Area School District has agreed to partner with CommunityAid, a non-profit organization with a mission to help those most vulnerable in our local communities.
All proceeds earned from the bins on our campuses will be earmarked for the Ruth's Harvest and Franklin Friends weekend meals programs in the District. The District will receive a monthly donation, based on the amount of clothing items collected in the bins. Additionally, our needy students will be eligible to receive clothing care cards to shop at their Hanover or Mechanicsburg stores.
This is an easy way for your used (and clean) clothes to be converted to cash and support our students. Last year we had 230 students in Ruth's Harvest and 51 students in Franklin Friends programs.
Please consider making a clothing donation! (If you have more donations than will fit in the bin - we can make special arrangements with the CommunityAid organization so the District receives the financial credit.
