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Our Principal

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Dear Principal Ruiz-Toro,
 
On behalf of the students of Grover Cleveland High School, we are delighted to welcome you as our new principal! Your arrival marks the start of an exciting new chapter for our school - one filled with fresh ideas, new opportunities, and the promise of continued growth and achievement.
 
Grover Cleveland High School is more than just a place where we attend classes. It is a community where we discover our talents, build friendships, overcome challenges, and prepare for our futures.
 
As students, we look forward to getting to know you, sharing our ideas, and working together to make our school an even better place to learn, grow, and succeed. We hope you will find in us not only students eager to learn, but also young individuals with dreams, ambitions, creativity, and the determination to make a difference.
 
Principal Ruiz-Toro, welcome to our Cleveland family! Together, let’s build a future filled with inspiration, opportunity, respect, and success.
 
The Students of Grover Cleveland High School
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News & Announcements

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Annual Queens High School Fair

The Annual Queens High School Fair brought together students, parents, and educators from across Queens to explore the many educational pathways available to future high school students.
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Club Fair

Students Take Center Stage at the SY 2026/27 Club Fair!
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Parent-Teacher Handbook

The GCHS Student Learning Handbook contains guidelines and best practices for student engagement, conduct, and opportunities to maximize your learning potential.
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Teachers Directory

To support strong communication between home and school, below is a list of Grover Cleveland High School teachers and their email addresses.

Upcoming events

Halloween

Date:
Time: 5 PM
Location: Neighborhood

Veterans Day

Date:
Time: 8 AM
Location: Everywhere
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Mission

At Grover Cleveland High School, we are committed to providing a rigorous, engaging, relevant education that challenges and equips students for the academic and professional challenges of the 21st Century. We are dedicated to fostering equity in a diverse, nurturing, safe and student-centered environment where our children excel academically with relevant cultural, social and emotional supports.
 
We believe students learn best when cognitively engaged in inquiry-based work through challenging and rigorous curricula that motivates them to formulate questions, think critically, evaluate, problem-solve and engage with one another in meaningful discourse and analysis. We will implement rigorous instruction that is culturally responsive, delivered by a caring and dedicated staff that facilitates student engagement and discourse in a supportive and challenging learning environment. We will foster an inclusive environment where diverse learners have equal access to instruction and graduate prepared to be civic-minded and engaged citizens of our school community and beyond and to thrive in the college and career of their choosing.