Early Release: Friday, Dec. 20

Enrollment for the 2025-26 school year opens on Feb. 25.

RISD’s #LearnerGrowthExperience continues to transcend classroom walls as MST Magnet kindergartners journey through the stages of learning — their imaginations ignite as they wonder and discover through hands-on exploration at the Dallas Arboretum and they collaborate with peers along the way. So much learning, so much fun!
#RISDInTheClassroom

Check out students at MST Magnet as they dive into a lively word-swatting competition! Given only definitions, they identify words and classify them as verbs, adjectives, nouns, and more in a race against their opponent.

Another 12 schools met or exceeded their attendance goals last year.

To receive free or reduced-price meal benefits for the 2024-2025 school year, families can complete an application via SchoolCafe.

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.

Congratulations to the winners of RISD’s Multilingual Poetry Contest.

The PTECH program provides students an opportunity to earn a high school diploma and an associate degree simultaneously.

Everyone needs an ID to enter an RISD campus.