12 Mar 2009
Monday, August 24, is the First Day of School for the 2009-2010 School Year
DALLAS–The Dallas Independent School District Board of Trustees has approved attendance zone changes and grade reconfigurations for several schools beginning in the 2009-2010 school year.
B.F. Darrell Math, Science, and Technology Vanguard will close at the end of this school year so that the building can be reconfigured for the district's first all-male academy. Students who now attend the school will attend either John Neely Bryan, W.W. Bushman, Elisha M. Pease, J.P Starks, Robert L. Thornton, or Whitney Young Jr. elementary schools, depending on where they live. These elementary zone changes will result in minor secondary zone changes among Oliver Wendell Holmes, Maynard H. Jackson, Boude Storey, and Sarah Zumwalt middle schools and Franklin D. Roosevelt, A. Maceo Smith, and South Oak Cliff high schools.
In addition, William Lipscomb Elementary School will be reconfigured from a prekindergarten through fourth-grade school to a prekindergarten through fifth-grade school.
To equalize building utilization next year, students living within the K.B. Polk Center for the Academically Talented and Gifted or Sudie L. Williams Elementary School zones will attend sixth- through eighth-grade at Edward H. Cary Middle School instead of Benjamin Franklin Middle School. These students also will attend grades nine through 12 at Thomas Jefferson High School instead of Hillcrest High School.
Any student currently enrolled in Franklin Middle School whose zone is changed to Cary Middle School may choose to remain at Franklin until the student completes eighth grade. However, for grades nine though 12, the student will attend Thomas Jefferson High School. Any incoming student must attend Cary Middle School.
Any student currently enrolled in Hillcrest High School whose zone has changed to Thomas Jefferson High School may choose to remain at Hillcrest until the student completes 12th grade. Any incoming student must attend Thomas Jefferson High School.
To find the attendance zone for your neighborhood, go to www.dallasisd.org/inside_disd/depts/demo/FindSchools.cfm.
We believe that every student must be educated in a safe, welcoming, effective and innovative learning environment, is the fourth Board of Trustees' core belief.