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Dripping Springs ISD’s annual online verification process for all students opened Monday, April 29. According to state law, this process must be completed each year for all students – those who have previously been enrolled in DSISD and those who are new to our district and previously completed registration in the spring.

Family Access logins are used to begin this process. Parents received a reminder e-mail on Monday with their Family Access login information. If you do not have a login or cannot remember your password, please follow the directions in the reminder e-mail.

Please complete online verification for each child in your family as soon as possible; this process should be completed before Friday, May 24. During the verification process, parents will complete back-to-school forms. This process takes approximately 30 minutes to complete. Some campuses require additional forms, such as the parking permit request at the high school.

If you have problems with the online process, please contact your child’s campus and ask for the Skyward Family Access contact/Student Records Specialist. Computers are available at campuses for those who do not have one available at home.

Dripping Springs ISD will hold four community update meetings on the schematic design for the district’s second high school May 8-9 in the Center for Learning & Leadership Live Oak Room (300 Sportsplex Drive).

Meetings will be held from 10:00-11:00 a.m. and 6:00-7:00 p.m. on both Wednesday, May 8 and Thursday, May 9. Attendees can enter through the main entrance of the Center for Learning & Leadership.

VLK, the architecture firm overseeing the high school design process, will cover the progress made since the community input meetings held in January 2024, as well as information gathered from the community survey and the High School #2 Design Committee. Currently, a Project Advisory Team comprised of students, parents, staff and community members are working alongside VLK and district administration on the campus design.

The district’s second high school will accommodate 2,500 students in grades 9-12 on Darden Hill Road in Driftwood. At this point, only the design portion of the second high school has been approved by voters. Construction for high school #2 would need to be funded through a future bond program. Information and updates on the 2023 bond can be found at dsisdtx.us/bond2023.

Dripping Springs High School freshman Anvika Jain and sophomore Elijah Slater each captured second-place finishes in their respective grade levels at the Texas Association for Pupil Transportation (TAPT) School Bus Safety Speech Contest on Monday, April 22 in Waco.

The annual TAPT contest provides an opportunity for high school students to prepare and present an original oration to convey the given school bus safety topic for the year. This year’s topic was “Driving Safely into the Future”.

Jain and Slater both advanced to the state competition after placing first in the Region 13 contest earlier this spring.

Dripping Springs ISD is excited to announce it is launching a new website on Friday, May 10 with website provider, Apptegy. The new site will offer a more user-friendly navigation with eye-catching images, graphics, and video integration, compatibility with all device types, and improved ADA accessibility.

Once the new site is live, we encourage parents and stakeholders to explore different sections of the website and locate their favorite and most-visited pages. Some of our more popular sites and pages such as Skyward Family Access, employment, and new student registration have been relocated to the top of the page and/or in multiple locations to simplify the navigation and make things easier for users to locate.

During the website transition, the DSISD website will be down temporarily, and certain programs like Skyward Family Access and the DSISD Webstore may be unavailable. Please bookmark those programs now in case you need to access them during the cutover. You may also contact the district office or your child’s campus if you have an urgent request.

More information will be provided to parents and stakeholders as we get closer to the launch date. We are excited to launch this improved web experience and appreciate your patience and understanding during the transition.

The final Taxpayer Tuesday for the 2023-24 school year will be held May 7 at 9:30 a.m. at Walnut Springs Elementary. The event will include a campus tour and a presentation on the district's budgeting process. If you plan to attend, please RSVP at dsisdtx.us/taxpayertuesdays. We hope to see you there!

DSISD is offering traumatic injury response training to students in grades 7-12. This training will educate students on how to respond to a traumatic injury in hopes of saving a life. Parents are welcome to accompany their student and observe the training. Please RSVP by May 10 so that accommodations can be made for families interested.