Richardson Independent School District

Richardson Independent School District

Where all students learn
Location
Richardson, Texas (35%)
Dallas, Texas (60%)
Garland, Texas (5%)
USA
District information
Type Public
Grades Pre-K through 12
Superintendent Kay Waggoner, Ph.D.[1]
Budget
Students and staff
Athletic conference UIL 6A-9 [2]

Richardson Independent School District (RISD) is a school district based in Richardson, Texas (USA).

RISD covers 38.5 square miles (100 km2) and serves most of the city of Richardson and portions of the cities of Dallas and Garland (60 percent of RISD is in North Dallas, with 35 percent in Richardson and 5 percent in Garland). RISD operates 55 campuses that serve more than 36,000 students. Including administration and support, RISD maintains 70 facilities covering more than 6,000,000 square feet (560,000 m2) with 35,000,000 square feet (3,300,000 m2) of grounds.[3]

In 2011, the school district was rated "recognized" by the Texas Education Agency.[4]

A majority of RISD is located in Dallas. Two portions of North Dallas are in Richardson ISD: One is north of Interstate 635, between Coit Road and Preston Road, and south of the Collin-Dallas county line; the other is the portion of Lake Highlands east of White Rock Creek and north of the Northwest Highway.[5] These areas, annexed into the City of Dallas after 1960, are generally high income.[6]

History

The district was founded in 1854. At the time it provided education for children of local farmers, small business owners and settlers around the railroad just outside Dallas, TX. In recent times RISD has been rated as "Recognized" by the Texas Education Agency for many years in a row. RISD is the largest, most racially and socioeconomically diverse district in Texas to receive a rating this high. In 2010 the Texas Business and Education Coalition (TBEC) added 22 RISD schools to the TBEC Honor Roll. RISD and Houston ISD leads the state in schools named to the Honor Roll. Only 252 public schools out of 8,000 in Texas were named to the TBEC Honor Roll, placing those 22 RISD schools in the top 4% of Texas public schools.[3]

In 2007 a report stated that, due to new development and older residents, certain areas of RISD faced student decreases. The removal of some low income apartment complexes contributed to the losses.[7]

Demographics

In a period until 2009, Richardson ISD's student body transitioned from a mostly white and affluent student body to a racially and socioeconomically diverse student body. In 2009 the State of Texas defined "college readiness," or readiness to undergo university studies, of high school graduates by scores on the ACT and SAT and in the 11th grade Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) tests. During that year the district's high schools consistently had high college readiness rates. Holly K. Hacker of The Dallas Morning News said that "Richardson school district leaders credit the strong showing at their high schools to attitude -- a refusal to accept poor performance based on changing demographics."[8]

Secondary schools

High Schools

Junior High Schools

Primary schools

Former schools

Former secondary schools

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.risd.org/AboutRISD/admin.htm. Retrieved on 20 January 2008
  2. ↑ http://www.utexas.edu/uil/alignments/2016/RR_Packet.pdf. Retrieved on 10 March 2016
  3. 1 2 http://www.risd.org/group/aboutrisd/aboutrisd_main.html
  4. ↑ "2009 Accountability Rating System". Texas Education Agency.
  5. ↑ "Live in Dallas (But Don’t Use Its Schools)" (Archive). The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved on March 8, 2016.
  6. ↑ Hanson, Royce. Civic Culture and Urban Change: Governing Dallas. Wayne State University Press, April 1, 2003. ISBN 0814337473, 9780814337479. p. 82.
  7. ↑ Hupp, Staci and Katherine Leal Unmuth. "Irving, Richardson schools face sliding enrollment, hard choices." The Dallas Morning News. Sunday December 9, 2007. Retrieved on November 19, 2011.
  8. ↑ Hacker, Holly K. "Analysis shows true Texas high school performance, stripping away socioeconomic factors." The Dallas Morning News. September 3, 2011. Retrieved on February 10, 2012.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 http://www.ed.gov/programs/nclbbrs/list-1982.pdf. Retrieved on 20 January 2008.
  10. ↑
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 http://www.ed.gov/programs/nclbbrs/list-2003.pdf. Retrieved on 20 January 2008.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 Nicholson, Eric. "Lake Highlands Finds the Secret to Great Public Schools: Getting Rid of Poor Kids." Dallas Observer. Monday May 16, 2016. Retrieved on May 24, 2016.
  13. 1 2 Fancher, Julie. "Not your typical spring break: Richardson educators travel to refugee camp to see where their students come from" (Archive). The Dallas Morning News. March 28, 2016. Retrieved on May 25, 2016.
  14. ↑ Weiss, Jeffrey. "Richardson ISD welcomes Burmese refugees" (Archive). The Dallas Morning News. January 1, 2012. Retrieved on May 25, 2016.
  15. ↑ Weiss, Jeffrey. "Richardson teachers, local churches help young Myanmar refugees eager to learn " (Archive). The Dallas Morning News. June 25, 2012. Retrieved on May 25, 2016.
  16. ↑ Toler, Carol. "Refugee students at Wallace: ‘It’s just a different level of poverty’." Lake Highlands Advocate. October 28, 2013. Retrieved on May 25, 2016.
  17. 1 2 Miller, Laura. "METROPOLIS THE "APARTMENT KIDS" AND A BEAVER CLEAVER SCHOOL." D Magazine. January 1990. Retrieved on May 24, 2016.
  18. ↑ Fancher, Julie. "Richardson ISD to decide whether new school will shake up elementary boundaries." The Dallas Morning News. June 10, 2016. Retrieved on June 12, 2016.
  19. ↑ Toler, Carol. "RISD trustees: K-6 for new school on White Rock Trail." Lake Highlands Advocate. June 21, 2016. Retrieved on August 25, 2016.
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