Dallas Independent School District
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|name = Dallas Independent School District
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|motto = “Our mission is to prepare all students to graduate with the knowledge and skills to become productive and responsible citizens.”<ref name="NCLB 2002-2003">
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| title=2002-2003 No Child Left Behind – Blue Ribbon Schools Program Application
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|budget = $1,644,682,202 <ref name="DISD Factsheet 2007-2008"> [http://www.dallasisd.com Dallas ISD] - [http://www.dallasisd.org/about/geninfo/0607factsheet.pdf DISD Factsheet]. ('''[[Portable document format|PDF]]'''). Retrieved on [[12 March]] [[2008]].</ref>
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|grades = [[pre-kindergarten|PK]] - [[twelfth grade|12]] <ref name="DISD Factsheet 2007-2008"/>
|superintendent = Michael Hinojosa
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|teachers = 10,643 <ref name="TEA AEIS Report 2006-2007"> [http://www.tea.state.tx.us/ Texas Education Agency] - [http://www.dallasisd.org/eval/data/reports/disd-district-aeis-2006-2007.pdf DISD AEIS Report] ('''[[Portable document format|PDF]]'''). Retrieved on [[12 March]] [[2008]].</ref>
|staff = 2,208 <ref name="TEA AEIS Report 2006-2007"/>
|students = 158,126 <ref name="DISD Factsheet 2007-2008"/>
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|location = 3700 Ross Avenue, [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas, TX]], 75204
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The '''Dallas Independent School District''' ('''Dallas ISD''' or '''DISD''') is a [[school district]] based in [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]], [[Texas]] ([[United States|USA]]). Dallas ISD, which operates schools in much of [[Dallas County, Texas|Dallas County]], is the second largest school district in Texas and the [[List of the largest school districts in the United States by enrollment|twelfth largest]] in the United States.
== General information ==
=== Location and area ===
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Dallas ISD covers {{convert|312.6|sqmi|km2|1|lk=on}} of land ([http://www.dallasisd.org/pdf/infosheets/areamap.pdf map]) and most of the city of Dallas. The district also serves [[Cockrell Hill, Texas|Cockrell Hill]], most of [[Seagoville, Texas|Seagoville]] and [[Addison, Texas|Addison]], [[Wilmer, Texas|Wilmer]], most of [[Hutchins, Texas|Hutchins]], and portions of the following cities:
*[[Balch Springs, Texas|Balch Springs]]
*[[Carrollton, Texas|Carrollton]]
*[[DeSoto, Texas|DeSoto]]
*[[Duncanville, Texas|Duncanville]]
*[[Farmers Branch, Texas|Farmers Branch]]
*[[Garland, Texas|Garland]]
*[[Grand Prairie, Texas|Grand Prairie]]
*[[Highland Park, Texas|Highland Park]]
*[[Lancaster, Texas|Lancaster]]
*[[Mesquite, Texas|Mesquite]]
In addition, Dallas ISD covers unincorporated areas of Dallas County, including some areas with [[Ferris, Texas|Ferris]] addresses.
== History ==
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The Dallas Independent School District was established in 1884.<ref name="handbookdallas">{{cite encyclopedia | last = McElhaney | first = Jackie | coauthors= Michael V. Hazel | encyclopedia = [[Handbook of Texas|Handbook of Texas Online]] | title = Dallas, Texas | url = http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/DD/hdd1.html | accessdate = 2007-01-25 }}</ref> Dallas ISD had absorbed many smaller school districts throughout its history. Vickery Independent School District had been annexed into Dallas ISD (adding [[Vickery Meadows]]) in [[1948]]. Addison ISD was absorbed in [[1954]]. Pleasant Grove ISD was annexed in [[1955]] (adding [[Pleasant Grove, Texas|Pleasant Grove]]), and [[Pleasant Grove High School]] was replaced by [[Samuell High School]] on the same year. Seagoville ISD of Seagoville was annexed into Dallas ISD in [[1965]]. In the summer of [[2005]], the [[Texas Education Agency]] (TEA) ordered the [[Wilmer-Hutchins Independent School District]] closed for the 2005-2006 school year due to financial stress and reported mismanagement. After negotiations, Dallas ISD agreed to accept the students for the 2005-2006 school year. The Wilmer-Hutchins ISD district was absorbed into Dallas ISD in summer 2006.
Dallas ISD opened 11 new campuses in the fall of 2006.<ref>''[http://www.dallasnews.com The Dallas Morning News]'' - [[14 August]] [[2006]]. "[http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/backtoschool/stories/081406dnmetdisdopens.204d020.html New year, new energy for DISD]" by Kent Fischer. Retrieved [[16 January]] [[2007]].</ref>
From 2005 to 2007, several northwest Dallas area public schools under Dallas ISD jurisdiction became infamous due to the outbreak of a Dallas-area [[recreational drug]], a version of [[heroin]] mixed with [[Tylenol PM]], called "[[Cheese (recreational drug)|Cheese]]." Dallas ISD issued drug dog searches to schools in order to combat the problem.
=== Secession movements ===
In 2006, several people in the Dallas ISD portion of the city of [[Balch Springs, Texas|Balch Springs]] created a petition to be rezoned to [[Mesquite Independent School District]], which serves eastern Balch Springs.<ref>''[http://www.dallasnews.com The Dallas Morning News]'' - [[6 December]] [[2006]]. "[http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/mesquite/stories/DN-balchsecede_04met.ART0.North.Edition1.3db6615.html Secession from Dallas ISD is sought]" by Andrew D. Smith. Retrieved [[16 January]] [[2007]].</ref>
== School Uniforms ==
Dallas ISD implemented mandatory [[school uniforms]] for all elementary and middle school students (through 8th grade) on most campuses starting in the 2005-2006 school year.<ref name="disduniforms">[http://www.dallasisd.org/uniforms/ Dallas ISD: Uniforms]</ref>
Elementary and middle school campuses which do not follow the Dallas ISD uniform policy continue to use their own mandatory uniform codes, which were adopted prior to the 2005-2006 school year.
Uniforms are optional at the high school level as in schools decide whether to adopt uniform policies; eight traditional high schools and three alternative high schools have adopted them.
The [[Texas Education Agency]] specified that the parents and/or guardians of students zoned to a school with uniforms may apply for a waiver to opt out of the uniform policy so their children do not have to wear the uniform; parents must specify "[[bona fide]]" reasons, such as religious reasons or philosophical objections.<ref name="tea">[http://www.tea.state.tx.us/field/uniforms.html Texas Education Agency: Uniforms Policy]</ref>
== Student makeup ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Dallas ISD Enrollment Data 2006-2007 <ref name="TEA AEIS Report 2006-2007"/>
|-
!align="left" width="150pt"|Grade
!align="center" |Number of Students
!align="center" |Percent
|-
!align="left" width="150pt"|Early Childhood Education
|align="center" |440
|align="right" |0.3%
|-
!align="left" width="150pt"|Pre-Kindergarten
|align="center" |8,570
|align="right" |5.4%
|-
!align="left" width="150pt"|Kindergarten
|align="center" |14,007
|align="right" |8.8%
|-
!align="left" width="150pt"|Grades 1 - 6
|align="center" |76,162
|align="right" |48.0%
|-
!align="left" width="150pt"|Grades 7 - 8
|align="center" |20,959
|align="right" |13.2%
|-
!align="left" width="150pt"|Grades 9 - 12
|align="center" |38,676
|align="right" |24.4%
|-
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Dallas ISD Ethnicity Data 2006-2007 <ref name="TEA AEIS Report 2006-2007"/>
|-
!align="left" width="150pt"|Ethnicity
!align="center" |Number of Students
!align="center" |Percent
|-
!align="left" width="150pt"|African American
|align="center" |46,948
|align="right" |29.6%
|-
!align="left" width="150pt"|Hispanic
|align="center" |101,997
|align="right" |64.2%
|-
!align="left" width="150pt"|White
|align="center" |8,004
|align="right" |5.0%
|-
!align="left" width="150pt"|Native American
|align="center" |379
|align="right" |0.2%
|-
!align="left" width="150pt"|Asian/Pacific Islander
|align="center" |1,486
|align="right" |0.9%
|-
|}
== Schools ==
=== List of schools ===
{{main|List of schools of the Dallas Independent School District}}
The district has 28 high schools, 32 middle schools, three "primary/secondary" schools that include grades normally in both middle schools and elementary schools, more than 150 elementary schools, and one early childhood development center.
=== Former secondary schools ===
;Former high schools
* Norman Robert Crozier Technical High School (the school was known by many names)
** Dallas High School 1907-1916
** Main High School 1916-1917
** Bryan Street High School 1917-1928
** Dallas Technical High School 1928-1942
** Crozier Technical High School 1942-1975
** Business and Management Magnet Center 1975-May 1995 (School relocated to Townview Center May 1995)
* Pleasant Grove High School 1953-1957 (the school had been in existence since 1939 but was in Pleasant Grove ISD until that district was absorbed into Dallas ISD in 1953)
* Forest Avenue High School 1916-1956 (was converted from a whites-only school to an African-American school and renamed [[James Madison High School (Dallas, Texas)| James Madison High School]], and the white students were sent to Crozier Tech)
* Rylie High School 1956-1963 (converted to a junior high and replaced with [[H. Grady Spruce High School]])
;Former junior high schools
* S. S. Conner Junior High School 1955-1964 (the S. S. Conner name was subsequently taken by an elementary school that opened in 1965)
=== Former primary schools ===
* Stephen F. Austin School (opened in 1886 as East Dallas School; renamed Stephen F. Austin School in 1902; served as an elementary school until 1976, when the building was taken over by the High School for the Health Professions; the structure was razed around the year 2000) <ref>"East Dallas Schoolhouse." ''The Dallas Morning News'', 31 December 1886.</ref><ref>"Stephen F. Austin School." ''The Dallas Morning News'', 2 March 1902</ref><ref>http://www.hshp.org/Buildings.htm</ref>
;Grades 4-6
* Daniel 'Chappie' James Learning Center (Dallas) (closed after Spring 2006, students rezoned to Dunbar Elementary, reopened as Irma Lerma Rangel Young Women's Leadership School in 2006.
* J. Leslie Patton Elementary School (Dallas) (closed after Spring 2006, students rezoned to Oliver (became PreK-5), Russell (4-5), Bryan (PreK-5), Miller (PreK-5))
;Pre-K through grade 3
* Robert C. Buckner Elementary School (Dallas)
* Fannie C. Harris Elementary School (students moved to Oran Roberts Elementary for Pre-K through 3)
* Joseph J. McMillan Elementary School (Dallas) (closed after Spring 2006, rezoned to Oliver (became PreK-5), Seguin (PK-3), Bryan (PreK-5), Miller (PreK-5))
;Grades K-3
* T.D. Marshall Elementary School (Dallas) (closed after Spring 2006, most of it was rezoned to Oliver (became PreK-5) and small portions were rezoned to Lisbon (PreK-5), Seguin (PK-3))
=== School Photographs ===
<gallery>
Image:Xvisionx 29 April 2006 WH Adamson.jpg | [[W. H. Adamson High School]]
Image:12200402l.jpg | [[Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts]]
Image:North Dallas High 02.jpg | [[North Dallas High School]]
Image:Samuell HS 2007.JPG | [[W. W. Samuell High School]]
Image:FDR_HS.JPG | [[Franklin D. Roosevelt High School]]
Image:TJ2006-ed.jpg | [[Thomas Jefferson High School]]
</gallery>
== See also ==
*[[List of school districts in Texas]]
== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.dallasisd.org Dallas ISD home page]
* [http://www.dfwbuynewhomes.com/school_dallas.htm Dallas ISD Ratings]
* [http://www.dallasisd.com Dallas ISD Independent News and Information]
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