Quartzsite schools end year with water safety lessons and community support
Quartzsite students closed the year with canal-and-river safety lessons, a busy Field Day, and a return date of Aug. 5 for families planning summer.
Quartzsite Elementary School District ended the school year by pairing classroom celebrations with a water-safety lesson for kindergarten and WACOG Head Start students, then telling families students would return Aug. 5, 2026. The district’s live feed also thanked P.A.C.C.E., the La Paz County Sheriff’s Department, volunteers, parents and staff for helping make Field Day work for local children.
The water-safety visit came from the Palo Verde Irrigation District, which stopped by the kindergarten class and WACOG Head Start students to share lessons tied to canals, drains and summer danger around moving water. Palo Verde says its annual safety program runs with the California Highway Patrol and includes school visits plus the “Big Al” safety book, a reminder that children in a desert community still need early instruction on water hazards.
That message lined up with WACOG Head Start’s role in the district. WACOG describes Head Start and Early Head Start as free, federally funded programs focused on school readiness, health and wellness and family engagement, so a water-safety lesson fits both the academic and practical side of early childhood education. In Quartzsite, where the district serves preschool through grade 8 from schools and offices in Ehrenberg and Quartzsite, those partnerships are part of how families stay connected to the classroom.
The district’s end-of-year calendar gave parents a steady run of events. Donuts with Grown-Ups was held May 6 from 7:45 to 8:30 a.m. The Panther Awards Assembly for fourth-quarter grades and growth was scheduled for May 19, followed by a kindergarten celebration at 9:30 a.m. on May 20. Ehrenberg Elementary’s Field Day was set for May 21 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., giving students one more chance to gather outdoors before summer break.
The broader safety message matters in La Paz County, where water recreation and irrigation canals are part of daily life. The La Paz County Sheriff’s Office says its Boating Safety & Enforcement Division works to reduce boating collisions, accidents and other water-related incidents through public education and enforcement. The Bureau of Land Management says the Lake Havasu Field Office oversees nearly 1.3 million acres of public land and more than 140 miles of the lower Colorado River, and Arizona Game & Fish Department advises boaters to take safety classes and wear life jackets. For Quartzsite families, the school year ended with a clear summer reminder: keep children away from canals and drains, and treat life jackets as standard equipment on the river.
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