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Nearly 9,000 students enrolled
Board approves tax rate
M.I. Lewis donates supplies
Community Resource Event
set for Sept. 7
DHS Homecoming 2010 festivities |
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Sept. 1
San Leon
Parent Orientation
1st gr.-6 p.m.
2nd gr.-6:45 p.m.
Sept. 2
San Leon Parent Orientation
3rd gr.-6 p.m.
4th gr.-6:45 p.m.
Sept. 2
Barber Meet the Teacher Night
6-7 p.m.
Sept. 3
DHS Varsity
Football vs.
Texas City
Sam Vitanza Stadium, 7 p.m.
Sept. 6
Labor Day Holiday (students and staff)
Sept. 7
Silbernagel
Parent Orientation
(K and 1st gr.)
6-7:30 p.m.
Sept. 7
Community Resource Event
4-6 p.m. Barber
Sept. 7
Bay Colony
Get the Scoop Parent Meetings for Pre-K and K
6 p.m.
Sept. 8
Bay Colony
Get the Scoop Parent Meetings for 1st and 2nd
6 p.m.
Sept. 9
Silbernagel
Parent Orientation
(2nd and 3rd gr.)
6-7:30 p.m.
Sept. 9
Bay Colony
Get the Scoop
Parent Meetings for 3rd and 4th
6 p.m.
Sept. 9
Calder Road PTO Meeting and Officer Elections
6 p.m.
Sept. 11
DHS Varsity
Football at Dobie, 6 p.m. |
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DISD ends first week of school year
with almost 9,000 students enrolled
With the first week of school complete, nearly 9,000 students are filling the classrooms of Dickinson ISD campuses. This represents an increase of 200 students over the start of the 2009-2010 school year.
The most notable increases have been at the middle school and junior high level. Barber and Dunbar middle schools are both up by 50 students each, while McAdams Junior High has 70 more students than last year.
The opening of Calder Road Elementary alleviated the overcrowding at the district's elementary campuses with each campus now having between 625-725 students. |
Board approves 2010 tax rate of $1.54;
2010-2011 school district budget finalized
The Dickinson Independent School District Board of Trustees approved 7-0 the district's tax rate for 2010, from $1.504 to $1.54, which represents an increase of 3.6 cents. The Maintenance and Operations portion of the tax rate remains at $1.04, while the Bonded Indebtedness portion increases from 46.4 cents to 50 cents. The increase will go toward payment of the final portion of the bonds sold from the November 2007 bond issue.
The Board also approved several action items related to wrapping up the 2009-2010 budget and starting the 2010-2011 budget. The new school year budget totals $66,380,764, an increase of $3.7 million over the 2009-2010 school year budget of $62,629,356. The 2010-2011 budget will require the district to draw $2,393,312 from the district's fund balance.
Read the Board Report for the August 23, 2010 meeting -- click here. |
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M.I. Lewis provides 690 students with a backpack of school supplies for new year
When school started this past week, 690 Dickinson ISD students had a backpack full of needed school supplies for the year thanks to the efforts of the M.I. Lewis Social Service Center. Each year, hundreds of parents who are unable to purchase the requested items for their students, register with M.I. Lewis to receive school supplies. This year, M.I. Lewis spent more than $9,000 on school supplies, while volunteers with the agency worked many hours dividing up the supplies for each student. The week before school starts, each campus picks up the supplies for their students to have them ready for the first day of school.
Dickinson ISD is grateful for the support the M.I. Lewis Social Service Center and its volunteers provide our students and their families throughout the school year. |
Community Resource Event set for Sept. 7
The Dickinson ISD Homeless Liaison is hosting a Community Resource Event from 4-6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 7 in the Barber Middle School Cafeteria. The public is invited.
The agencies invited to participate include: Maximum-Texas Health Steps and Star Program, individual Medicaid plans, M.I. Lewis Social Service Agency, NAMI Gulf Coast, Children's Center-A Safe Place, Communities in Schools, Connect Transit, College of the Mainland ESL and GED, Galveston County Social Services, Perry Family YMCA, Point of Light Clinic, HUD-Community Planning & Development, Galveston County United Way, Lighthouse Christian Ministries, Hospice Care Team of Galveston County, Catholic Charities, Lone Star Legal Aid and Salvation Army. |
Homecoming 2010
Plans underway for annual community parade
and pep-rally, student carnival and football game
Planning is underway at Dickinson High School for Homecoming 2010 festivities, which will be celebrated the week of Sept. 20. Highlighting the week will be the community parade and pep rally on Wednesday, Sept. 22, the carnival for DHS students during lunch periods on Thursday, Sept 23, the football game on Friday, Sept. 24 and finally the student Homecoming dance on Saturday, Sept. 25.
The parade lineup will start at 4:45 p.m. Sept 22 at the shopping center parking lot at FM 517 and 1266. The parade will begin at 5:30 p.m. and travel east on FM 517, turn left in front of DHS on Baker Drive and end at Sam Vitanza Stadium. A community-wide pep rally and crowning of the Homecoming King is planned immediately following the parade in the stadium. Community organizations, churches, other DISD campuses, as well as DHS groups are all invited enter a float in the parade. Floats are invited to have some of their participants walk alongside the float to hand out candy.
The football game is set for 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 24 at Sam Vitanza Stadium against Clear Creek High School. The crowning of the Homecoming queen will take place shortly before the start of the game around 6:40 p.m.
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