Galena High School

Galena's American Exchange Program Home Week is a wrap! It was an incredible week with our Galena Students showing our Travel Students all the amazing things about our community! Next, our Galena Students will start their adventures as they travel across the country in the coming weeks!

A huge Thank You to our host families and community businesses that helped make this week possible!

Thank you to the following community Supporters!

Berning Acres, Chestnut Mountain, Culver's, Dry Creek Beekeeping, Fried Green Tomatoes, Galena City Hall, Galena Goat Yoga, Galena Trolley Tours, Gobbies, Haunted Galena Tour Company, JDLF Market, Mississippi River Museum, Nuts Outdoors, P.T. Murphy Magic, Scent Workshop, Vinny Vanucchi's

Pirate Nation wishes boys' track the best of luck at state this week!

Today was our end-of-year fun food truck day!

Students got to do a ton of fun activities, including painting the walls of our old building.

Every student also did a service project in the community! Thank you to Galena ARC, City of Galena, and Midwest Senior Care Community for having our students volunteer today!

Today is National College Decision Day! Congrats to our 2026 Seniors!

Exciting weekend for GHS!! Yesterday, we celebrated our Scholastic Bowl Team and our Journalism team!

The Scholastic Bowl team qualified for the NAQT National Tournament!

Journalism Team is heading to State!

Good Luck and GO, PIRATES!

GHS Loves Mrs. Heller!

Thank you, Ms. Anderson-Beadle, for all you do at GHS!

This weekend, GHS's Mrs. Bookless was recognized at the 52nd Annual Those Who Excel Banquet! Congratulations!

Due to the possibility of severe weather this evening, tonight's performance of GODSPELL on 4/17 has been cancelled.

We hope to see you all at the show tomorrow!

This week, we had four GHS students compete at the FBLA State Conference! So proud of these students!

Way to go- Achillies Morales, Cameron Einsweiler, Daniela Bello-Yanes, and Justin Lin

Happy Para Appreciation Day!

Today is Autism Awareness Day!

Thank you to GHS Student Logan Schultz for designing this year's shirts and to C&N Embroidery for the partnership!

Today, GHS students Luna Pham and Andy Issleb attended the Illinois State Board of Education’s 2nd Annual ISBE Student Summit in Springfield. They were able to collaborate with students from across the state to share student input on AI, School Culture, Equity, and College and Career Readiness.

Thank you, Ms. Smith, for all you do!

Today, our GHS and GEMS Student Council helped to bury a 2026 Time Capsule they created in the new GHS building! We are excited to move in this summer and for future Pirates to discover the Capsule years from now.

Last night we held our GHS Scholastic Bowl vs GHS Staff Match! It was a ton of fun and a tight competition! -They may have gone easy on the staff.

Good Luck to the Scholastic Bowl Team as they head to Masonic State this weekend and IHSA Regionals next Monday!

Thank you, Ms. Friederick, for all you do at GHS!

Thank you, Mrs. Burken, for all you do at GHS!

Mark your Calendars!