Dripping Springs ISD announced 2019-20 Campus Teachers of the Year on April 15. They are:  Annette Hambright (Sycamore Springs Elementary, Special Education), Dave Hammond (Dripping Springs Middle School, special education), Jordyn LaMirand (Sycamore Springs Middle School, Special Education), Michae...

Changes have been made in the Dripping Springs ISD pre-K and kindergarten registration process including an extension of the deadline. Registration deadline is now May 1. Documents (excluding proof of residence) need to be dropped off by Aug. 4. Although online kindergarten registration will remain ...

Dripping Springs ISD has been honored with the "Best Communities for Music Education" designation from the NAMM Foundation for its outstanding commitment to music education. DSISD is one of five Central Texas districts to receive this designation for 2020. Now in its 21st year, the Best Communities ...

    A Dripping Springs High School engineering teacher and some students are poised to begin producing face shields. Through the use of 3-D printers, teacher Had Jadeja has been working in the school’s Fab Lab to develop a prototype, and some students with 3-D printers at home have offered to produc...

For the first time ever, Dripping Springs High School Technical Theatre students entered the UIL Theatrical Design Competition and several have qualified for state. Designs were submitted in February for the competition, with the theme "Life is a Dream.” DSISD students competed in Division 1, which ...

Marisa Renteria, mother of a 3-year-old and a newborn, recently saw her son’s vocabulary drop from 50 words to 10; he was diagnosed with speech delay. After attending school, her son’s vocabulary sprang back to 60 words. But since schools have closed with no end in sight, Renteria worries that her s...

An unintended consequence of a stay-at-home order is an increase of family violence when existing stressors like job loss become more frequent. However, the Hays Caldwell Women’s Center has seen a dramatic drop in victims reaching out for hospital service calls for the month of March. In February of...

Six new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Hays County Wednesday, April 15, bringing the total to 109. Results in 15 cases were pending, while 642 tests have gotten negative results. One person has died and 43 have recovered,   A total of 10 people have been hospitalized, none at Hays County hospit...

Hays County experienced its first death from the COVID-19 virus on Monday, April 13. The county said a woman in her 80s who was staying with a relative in Buda succumbed to the disease. Her death came roughly one month after the county’s first recorded “presumptive” positive case. Along with that an...

The Health Department on Monday reported the death of a woman in her 80s who was living with a relative in Buda.   COVID -19 CDC photo Additionally, the number of confirmed cases grew by 19 overnight to a total of 93, according to the county’s 4 p.m. update of its “dashboard” on the coronavirus at h...