DRIPPING SPRINGS — Conversations surrounding attendance rezoning are still ongoing within Dripping Springs ISD. Throughout the fall 2024 semester, the district has been working to develop new elementary and middle school attendance zones to go into effect beginning with the 2025-26 school year. In A...

DRIPPING SPRINGS — Project Elf has been aiding community members in Dripping Springs for nearly four decades and this year, with more than 400 children to deliver gifts to, is no different. The Christmas program is part of Helping Hands, a nonprofit that began in 1986. Primarily a food pantry, the o...

DRIPPING SPRINGS  —   On Thursday, Oct. 17, Dripping Springs ISD held the first of four community meetings regarding its attendance rezoning, which is set to be voted on by the board of trustees in December, in preparation for the opening of the district’s sixth elementary school in the fall of 2025...

DRIPPING SPRINGS — Dripping Springs ISD and Superintendent Dr. Holly Morris-Kuentz named Kellie Raymond as the new principal for Dripping Springs Elementary School and Amber Daige as the Cypress Springs Elementary School principal. “Creating opportunities for our leaders to grow is an important part...

Applications are due May 26 DRIPPING SPRINGS — Due to three campuses exceeding functional capacity, Dripping Springs ISD launched its Temporary Transfer Program last week. For the 2023-24 school year, parents may request a transfer of their student(s) out of Dripping Springs Elementary School, Walnu...

ADDRESSING OVERCROWDING DRIPPING SPRINGS — Dripping Springs ISD is continuing to look at the possibility of allowing students to temporarily transfer out of overenrolled campuses for the 2023-24 school year. The student enrollment at Dripping Springs Elementary School, Walnut Springs Elementary Scho...

Three schools overcrowded in Dripping Springs DRIPPING SPRINGS — Three Dripping Springs ISD campuses are experiencing over-enrollment, causing the district to look at alternative ways to address the issue. Because of rapid growth, the student enrollment at Dripping Springs Elementary School (DSES), ...

Walnut Springs Elementary Principal Melinda Gardner is among 62 school leaders from across Texas who have been selected as educators to attend summer institutes at the Principals’ Center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education sponsored by the Raise Your Hand Texas Foundation, a non-profit organ...

The relocation of Walnut Springs Elementary School to the Dripping Springs Middle School site banded parents together to share input on two different renderings for the campus.  The two schematic designs, presented by Corgan Architects, will go through changes before construction, giving parents the...

A final recommendation on what Dripping Springs ISD could place into a potential May bond package will wait another week. The DSISD bond steering committee requested more time to consider its final recommendation to the board of trustees. The committee aims to present its final recommendation at a s...