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GIPS 2025-26 Registration is Open

Collage of smiling GIPS students.


February 3, 2025

A message from Matt Fisher, GIPS Superintendent:

While we continue to work our way through the current school year, some time and energy has to be shifted to planning for next school year!

One of the key pieces in that planning process for the school district is getting students registered.  Registration for the 2025-26 school year at Grand Island Public Schools is officially open. 

To help figure out how many teachers will be needed at each grade level and in each school, we want to have an accurate count of the students who will be attending our schools. The online registration process opened on February 5th and runs through March 31st.

New and returning Grand Island Public Schools families may register their students at www.GIPS.org/registration. 

When we reach March 31st, we will set the number of sections for each grade level in all of our schools. We will then staff our buildings accordingly. Once the number of sections for each building have been determined — and those sections are filled — we can no longer accept students for those grades in that building.

Here are a few additional reminders as families consider registering at Grand Island Public Schools for the next school year:

  • We have Preschool classrooms at four of our buildings including at the O’Connor Learning Center which is our large, dedicated early childhood education facility. Children living in Grand Island who are 4 years old on or before July 31, 2025 are eligible to register for Preschool at GIPS.  Children who are 3 years old and verified for special education services are also eligible to register.

  • Kindergarten is available at all 13 of our Elementary schools.  We encourage all of our Grand Island families with students who will be 5 five years old by July 31st to register for Kindergarten in their neighborhood school.

  • Each of our three Middle Schools — Barr, Walnut, & Westridge — have “feeder” Elementary schools.  If your student has recently completed 5th Grade, you may find information about your Middle School pairing on our district website.

  • The Academies of Grand Island Senior High (GISH) continue leading the way in personalized education opportunities.  Students joining or returning to high school will have a great landscape waiting for them next school year.  More information about the GISH Academies may be found here:  www.gips.org/academies.

We will continue to enroll students who live in the district after the March 31st deadline. However, those students will have to be placed where we have open sections for their grade level. So, in some cases a student who is enrolled late may have to attend class in a building that is not as close as their neighborhood school.

GIPS 2025-26 Student Registration Checklist


So, we ask all of our new and returning GIPS families to please register your children as soon as possible.

Thank you for taking care of your part in this critical piece of the school planning process.

We are looking forward to great things in the 2025-26 school year!

- Matt Fisher, Superintendent 

 

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