A Message from Our Principal

January 1, 2026

Happy New Year!

We are very excited to start of the new year with a very busy second semester. Winter sports are busy, FFA and Knowledge Bowl are competing, we’re preparing for our Cognia accreditation review in February, and spring sports are right around the corner. We expect this semester to fly by fast.

To start out the new year, WUSD is partnering with School Perceptions for the annual parent satisfaction survey. Families will receive notifications either by email or text with information about the survey at the end of January. Please be on the lookout for those notifications, and fill out the survey at your earliest convenience.

Another important reason that families need to contact our Attendance Office is in case of an emergency on campus, we use our daily attendance to keep track of students in case of evacuation. If a student is not accounted for through PowerSchool, it makes it harder for our staff to ensure the safety of all of our students during reunification with their families.

We would also like to remind families about the importance of student attendance at school – which does affect our funding. Arizona state law requires students to be in school 90% of the days at the high school (per semester). That is equivalent to missing up to eight school days in a semester, and it doesn’t matter if the absence is excused or unexcused. If your student does have to miss school, please be sure to call our Attendance Office at 520-384-8601. If no one answers, please leave a message.

When a student is absent from school, they are missing direct instruction, and when they miss that instruction, that student will sometimes fall behind in class and get frustrated and feel hopeless. If your student is absent, they are responsible for communicating with the teacher regarding their make-up work. Our teachers are always willing and able to provide additional support to all of our students, whether they miss instruction or not.

Spring time is state testing time, and our staff and students are working hard to prepare for those tests. AZELLA will be  in February and March, ACT (juniors only) will be the last week in March, AzSCI (juniors only) will be the first week in April, and we will wrap up testing the week of April 6 for the ACT Aspire (freshmen only). Please help support your students during testing time by ensuring they good a good night’s sleep, drink plenty of water, and eat good meals the night before testing and the morning of testing. WHS students always step up and do their best on these tests, and we appreciate the help that their families provide.

Thank you again for your continued support of our staff and students, we look forward to a very successful second semester. We Are Willcox. Go, Cowboys and Cowgirls!

Sincerely,

Tammy Hall

Tammy Hall, Principal