This familiaRise segment comes from the RISD Special and Gifted Education PTA (SAGE PTA).

Each October, National Principals Month recognizes the essential role that principals play in making a school great.

GoGuardian mobile app is designed to provide parents and guardians with insight and control over their student’s online activity when using school-managed devices and accounts. 

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

Starting Aug. 19, the Network mobile food pantry will stop at a handful of RISD campuses.

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

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 students and parents or guardians the opportunity to purchase insurance for any device owned by the school district and assigned to a student for use at school and home.

The school year is right around the corner, and this year’s Backpack Bash is coming to a campus near you the first week of August.

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 will offer summer meals in June at seven different campuses across the district, and the Network mobile food pantry will stop at five other campuses.

RISD will offer summer meals at seven different campuses across the district.

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

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