Before participating in volunteer opportunities in schools and district facilities, all RISD volunteers must complete a background check.

At the Aug. 7 Board meeting, district leaders presented an update on student performance and a preview of the upcoming 2025 accountability ratings.

Hamilton Park Pacesetter Magnet | Leadership Academy is implementing uniforms schoolwide in the 2025-2026 school year.

For the fourth year, RISD campuses will continue to be cell phone-free schools.

Parents of enrolled RISD students may now complete forms online to qualify for free or reduced cost meals for the 2025-26 school year that begins August 12.

Visit RISD’s Back to School page to find resources, information and answers to your back-to-school questions as you get ready for the new school year.

RISD partners with organizations to offer a variety of recommendations and services to families over the summer months.

We Read Together is Richardson ISD’s volunteer initiative to champion early literacy skills for students.

Shannon Southward, a fourth-grade teacher

To enhance safety and security protocols, RISD is implementing student badges this year for all elementary students.

The district is implementing a new Richardson ISD Code of Civility this school year to set expectations for how students, parents, employees, and visitors treat and interact with each other while at school or communicating about school-related activities.

All parents and guardians are strongly encouraged to become familiar with how RISD schools approach safety and security.

RISD provides bus service for students who live more than two miles away from their home campus.

RISD is changing the dates of spring break on the 2024-25 student academic calendar. The new dates for spring break will be March 10-14, 2025 – moved up one week from the previous dates of March 17-21.

RISD is now interviewing positions for the 2024-25 school year.