The 2010-2011 school year has come to a close. This year, Head Start of Greater Dallas served more than 4,400 preschool age children at 40 centers across the Metroplex. These children were exposed to the highest quality early childhood education curriculum available and showed significant positive gains in their testing from the beginning of the year to the end. Without Head Start, many of these children would have entered kindergarten without the important early learning skills developed at our centers.

It is the mission of Head Start of Greater Dallas to provide children with the foundation of skills and knowledge they need to be successful in school and in life and foster self-reliant families and communities. Whether it is through language and literacy efforts or math and science activities, our students enter public kindergarten on track and ready to learn.  Many of our end of year activities revolve around summer learning. Our staff encourages parents and children to continue to read, exercise and explore by giving them the resources they need, many times through generous donations. Our students continue to develop their early learning skills throughout the summer.

I would like to thank our staff and teachers for their tireless efforts to prepare our children for kindergarten, and our community partners both corporate and individual for the volunteer time and other contributions that have impacted our children and families.