Gilroy Unified School District is located in the southernmost tip of Santa Clara Valley, California.
The other school districts included San Ysidro and Rucker.
It covers an area of over 600 square miles, and during the 2012–2013 school year had approximately 11,000 students.
Madonna Continuation High School), three middle schools (Brownell, Solorsano, and South Valley), and seven elementary schools (El Roble, Eliot, Glen View, Las Animas, Luigi Aprea, Rod Kelley, and Rucker).
Among its duties, this body appoints the superintendent to function as the district's chief executive for carrying out day-to-day decisions and policy implementations.