1st Quarter Athletic Information (2023-2024)

Welcome to Cooley Athletics! 1st quarter athletic tryouts will take place the first week of school (dates and times to come). 1st quarter sports are baseball, girl's volleyball, wrestling and cheer.  You are only able to choose one sport for each quarter.  All athletes need to be registered and cleared in Register My Athlete prior to participating. Please visit the Cooley website under the Athletic tab for detailed registration information. **Please note that registrations and uploads done over the summer will not be looked at until Wednesday, July 19th, after 12:00 p.m.

HUSD Takes Proactive Approach to Ensure Students Thrive Academically and Emotionally 

To increase awareness of mental health challenges among young people, Higley Unified School District has implemented a Healthy Higley Wellness Initiative. This initiative is designed to provide community members in the Gilbert area with the resources needed to ensure students thrive academically and emotionally.

As part of Higley Unified School District's updated strategic plan, maximizing each student's academic and social-emotional growth is of the utmost importance.

HUSD has taken a proactive approach to ensure the District is providing resources to support the social-emotional growth of each student and the development of positive student behavior. To do so, HUSD has developed and implemented a K-12 comprehensive counseling program, with additional counselors available to all students. This increase in counselors includes the addition of one District led counselor to support the K-12 counselor group, three counselors to service all nine elementary schools, and a District behavior coach. This model enhances the ability for all students to fully utilize all the opportunities that are available to them related to emotional well-being.

The District has also improved its process of training employees, families, and students on social-emotional growth. This year's focus is resiliency, which includes proactive and preventative ways to overcome obstacles and develop positive life skills.

Additionally, the District is focusing on suicide awareness and drug prevention. One of the strategies the District is using to increase suicide awareness is through additional training for all school site employees. HUSD is currently developing and refining its process associated with Suicide Risk Management, which includes training K-12 employees with step-by-step guidelines to better help them observe concerning behavior and respond appropriately. Administrators have already received additional training on this process earlier this school year, but all K-12 employees will be trained with these additional steps starting in December 2022.

Reporting An Absence

Did you know you are able to report an absence via ParentVUE?  It is very simple to do!  Log into ParentVUE, click on the blue Report Absence button next to your student's name, enter a start and end date (if just 1 day, the dates are the same), and select a reason.  You can leave a brief note in the Note box and you can upload doctors note if desired.   If you are able to report an absence prior to 10:00 a.m., you will not receive the auto-dialer phone call.  This is the preferred method, but as always, you can continue to call the attendance line - option 2 for attendance.

Student Drop Off and Pick Up

Student drop off and pick up is in the front of the school.  The parking lot off of Recker is for teacher parking and busses only.  For the safety of our students, please use the front parking lot only for student drop off and pick up.  In addition, please do not park along Elona or on the side streets or in the driveways.  There is no parking in and along these areas.  Thank you for helping keep our students safe.