List of Dallas Independent School District schools


This is the list of schools of the Dallas Independent School District. For more information on the district, see the main article: Dallas Independent School District.

High schools

The following are some of the senior high schools located within the district. Schools are located in the city of Dallas unless otherwise stated.

6A

Lake Highlands High School

4A

Middle schools

NameCityNotes
William Hawley Atwell Middle SchoolDallas
Young Women's STEAM Academy at Balch Springs Middle SchoolBalch SpringsYoung Women's STEAM Academy at Balch Springs Middle School is in Balch Springs. It, as Balch Springs Middle School, was scheduled to open in 2012, and was originally coeducational. It was repurposed in 2016 as a zoned girls' school. Dallas ISD and Parkland Balch Springs Youth & Family Health Center is on a site next to the school building, on the school property. It serves disadvantaged children who do not have primary care physicians. Previously the center was known as the Spruce Youth and Family Health Center and housed on the grounds of H. Grady Spruce High. On June 3, 2013, it moved to its current location and changed its name.
T.W. Browne Middle SchoolDallas
Edward H. Cary Middle SchoolDallasEdward H. Cary Middle School is in North Dallas, and serves a section of the Preston Hollow area, including Old Preston Hollow or the "Estate area". In 2019 the school had 500 students. In 2019 a strike from a tornado destroyed the school building. In the period until a new campus building is established, Franklin Middle School was scheduled to take about 60% of the students while the remainder were to go to Medrano Middle School.
E.B. Comstock Middle SchoolDallas
Billy Earl Dade Middle SchoolDallasBilly Earl Dade Middle School is in the Fair Park area in South Dallas. The school merged with Pearl C. Anderson Middle School, and opened in a new $36 million building in August 2013. In 2015 Nicholson stated that the combination of the two hostile student populations and poor administration from DISD's central office caused it to become, for a period, "Dallas' Worst Public School".
Dallas Environmental Science Academy Dallas it had about 461 students. Prior to 2018 plans were drawn up for a new building, but several DISD board members opposed this on the grounds that the neighborhood schools around it needed renovation or replacement and that only focusing on the magnet school would anger local residents.
Young Men's Leadership Academy at Fred Florence Middle SchoolDallasYoung Men's Leadership Academy at Fred Florence Middle School is in Pleasant Grove. It was previously Fred F. Florence Middle School, a coeducational middle school which had about 850 students in 2016. That year it became a boys' zoned school.
Benjamin Franklin Middle SchoolDallasThe school serves: portions of the Preston Hollow area, including the "Estate area", as well as the Janmar area, and a portion of Addison. It is named after Benjamin Franklin.
Hector P. Garcia Middle SchoolDallasIt was built in 2007.
W. E. Greiner Exploratory Arts AcademyDallas
Robert H. Hill Middle SchoolDallas
Oliver W. Holmes Middle SchoolDallas
Zan Wesley Holmes Jr. Middle SchoolDallasZan Wesley Holmes Jr. Middle School is located in Oak Cliff, and also serves a section of Cockrell Hill. It was scheduled to open in 2012. Its namesake, who advocated for area public schools, is a pastor.
D.A. Hulcy STEAM Middle SchoolDallasD.A. Hulcy STEAM Middle School - Students are selected on the basis of geographic location. It opened in 2015.
Ignite Middle SchoolDallas
Kennedy-Curry Middle SchoolDallasKennedy-Curry Middle School is in South Dallas, and serves, in addition to sections of Dallas, Wilmer, almost all of Hutchins, and a small section of Lancaster. It opened in fall 1968 as a part of the Wilmer-Hutchins Independent School District. It closed in 2005 due to the closure of WHISD. Dallas ISD, which took over the WHISD schools, had renovated Kennedy-Curry and expanded it by almost. Funds from the 2008 $1.35 billion bond were used to overhaul the Wilmer-Hutchins schools. In 2011 DISD re-opened Kennedy Curry. Its namesakes are John F. Kennedy and Bishop College president Milton K. Curry.
Harold W. Lang Middle SchoolDallas
J. L. Long Middle SchoolDallasNeighborhoods within the attendance boundary include: Greenland Hills, Junius Heights, Lakewood, Lower Greenville, Munger Place, almost all of Swiss Avenue, and Vickery Place. The school in 2015 was over capacity, with its usage at 127%. In 2011 the school stopped allowing students to carry backpacks due to the fact that it lost security guards as a result of DISD budget cuts.
Henry W. Longfellow Career Exploration AcademyDallas
Thomas C. Marsh Middle SchoolDallasMarsh serves, in addition to sections of Dallas, portions of Farmers Branch in DISD. By 2015 a "personalized learning" program was established there.
Francisco "Pancho" Medrano Middle SchoolDallasThe school uses a geothermal cooling system instead of a regular HVAC system. It was established as part of a 2008 bond.
Piedmont G.L.O.B.A.L. AcademyDallasPiedmont G.L.O.B.A.L. Academy - In 2012 it had a capacity of about 1,430 students but an enrollment of 1,441. That year it was relieved by the opening of Richards Middle.
Raúl Quintanilla Middle SchoolDallasThe school, in addition to sections of Dallas, serves sections of Cockrell Hill. It was named after the Greater Dallas Hispanic Chamber of Commerce chairperson and a NationsBank senior vice president. The capacity was 1,200.
Ann Richards Middle SchoolDallasAnn Richards Middle School is in Pleasant Grove. Scheduled to open in 2012, it relieved John B. Hood Middle. It is named after former Governor of Texas Ann Richards.
Thomas J. Rusk Middle SchoolDallasRusk serves, in addition to sections of Dallas, a portion of Highland Park.
Seagoville Middle SchoolDallasSeagoville Middle School is in Dallas, and serves most of Seagoville and the Dallas County portion of Combine.
Alex W. Spence Talented/Gifted AcademyDallasDowntown Dallas is within the Spence attendance zone.
L. V. Stockard Middle SchoolDallasThe school, in addition to sections of Dallas, serves sections of Cockrell Hill.
Boude Storey Middle SchoolDallas
Sam Tasby Middle SchoolDallasSam Tasby Middle School is in Vickery Meadow, and it, with Jack Lowe Elementary, share a single campus and several common areas; the two schools have their designated entrances in the school building. Tasby opened in August 2006. Tasby, built with $20 million, relieved Franklin Middle School. The lot which Tasby and Lowe occupied used to be The Villas at Vickery, a retail and residential complex built in 1976.
Ewell D. Walker Middle SchoolDallasWalker serves: portions of the Preston Hollow area, and portions of Addison and Carrollton.

Elementary schools

Former high schools

;Grades 4–6
;Pre-K through grade 3
;Grades K–3