6 Apr 2011
Opening August 2012
DALLAS—Dallas ISD will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for Balch Springs Middle School at 10 a.m., Tuesday, April 12, at the site of the new school, 710 Cheyenne Rd, Balch Springs, TX.
Superintendent of Schools Michael Hinojosa will join District 4 School Board Trustee Nancy Bingham; Regina Jones, senior executive director, East Secondary Learning Community; and the Honorable Carrie Gordon, Mayor of Balch Springs, for the occasion. Students from Richard Lagow and Gilbert Cuellar Sr. elementary schools and E.B. Comstock Middle School will participate in the program. Julius Dorsey Elementary School's Little Kids Rock students will also perform.
Balch Springs Middle School, scheduled to open August 2012, will accommodate 1,250 students in grades 6-8. The planned 199,246 sq. ft., 3-story building is part of the 2008 Bond Program. It will be an environmentally sustainable school with 600 geothermal wells for cost effective heating and cooling, a water management system and an irrigation plan.
In the event of inclement weather, the ceremony will be held at Gilbert Cuellar Sr. Elementary School, 337 Pleasant Vista Dr., Dallas, TX 75217.
For more information on the bond program, visit www.dallasisd2008bond.org.
"Dallas ISD is a leader statewide in education reform. We have been proud to work with the district on establishing Early College High School; Texas Science Technology Engineering and Math Academies; better use of data at the classroom, campus and district levels; and the national Measures of Effective Teaching project to help discover what great teachers are doing in classrooms."