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Dallas Independent School District in Texas
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The Dallas Independent School District or the Dallas ISD with 257 facilities; 20,077 professional and support employees; over 159,000 students; assets and investments amounting to approximately $2.1 billion is the second largest school district in Texas and is twelfth in the United States.
The Dallas ISD encompasses an area of 384 square miles of land mainly in the eastern portion of the Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas area and also taking in small portions of Addison, Balch Springs, Carrollton, Cockrell Hill, Dallas, Farmers Branch, Garland, Highland Park, Hutchins, Mesquite, Seagoville, University Park and Wilmer.
Throughout its history, the Dallas ISD had absorbed a number of smaller school districts since it was established in 1884. Vickery, Addison, Pleasant Grove and Seagoville were some of the school districts absorbed by Dallas ISD. The year 2006 also marked history for Dallas ISD when it opened and launched 11 new campuses and also implementing a mandatory school uniform code across their elementary and middle school students. The Dallas ISD have won several educational awards and recognitions and two of its schools; School for the Talented and Gifted and the School of Science and Engineering; was recently tagged by the Newsweek magazine last May 2007 as top two of its annual list of “America’s Best High Schools.” |
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