Calendar Items (for athletics information, scroll to the bottom of this page.)

• Waketon Road Closure Information 3/10-3/12
• Week of 3/15 - Spring Break - School resumes on Monday 3/22
• April 8, 15, 22 - LISD presents "Love and Logic" Parenting Training.
  • Spanish Version
• Friday 4/16 - Attention Downing Graduates - DMS PTA Scholarship Applications Due 4/16
  • Scholarship Information
  • Scholarship Application
• DMS Testing and Assessment Information and Calendars
  

Important School Information

• NEW LISD External PE Application
• NEW Downing PTA Site Registration Instructions
• 2010 No Child Left Behind - Downing MS - Information Letter
  • NEWDowning MS 2009 NCLB Report Card Campus Level
    • Part I - Student Achievement
    • Part II - Student Achievement and AYP
    • Part III - AYP and Schools Identified for Improvement, Corrective Action, and Restructuring
    • Part IV - Teacher Quality
  • The 2008-09 School Report Cards (SRC) are now available from the Texas Education Agency’s website at:
    http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/perfreport/src/2009/campus.srch.html
  • The 2008-09 Pocket Edition is now live on the TEA web site at:
    http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/perfreport/pocked/index.html
  •  Contact Information
    Texas Education Agency
    Department of Assessment, Accountability, and Data Quality, Criss Cloudt, Associate Commissioner
    Division of Performance Reporting, Shannon Housson, Director
    State Accountability Unit—Standard Procedures, Cathy Long, Manager
    State Accountability Unit—AEA Procedures, Nancy Rinehart, Manager
    (512) 463-9704
    performance.reporting@tea.state.tx.us
• LISD CHOICES - Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communtities Program
• Need tutoring help? Click here for the LISD Tutoring list.
• Attention Parents: If you want homework sent home for your sick child... Please email their teachers with the request early in the day.  Homework should be ready by 4pm for pick up.  The Office is open until 4:30.    Don’t forget to check School Web for each teacher for class related information.
• Bookmarks for Research - use the research database login and password your teacher told you at school to access the data bases or students may now use their network login to access the links.
• Greater Lewisville Special Education PTSA - A resource for parents and teachers of children with special needs in Lewisville ISD and surrounding areas.
  • new GLSEPTSA January-February Newsletter
  • 2009-2010 Schedule of Programs and Events
• Special Education in Texas - Options and requirements for providing assistance to students who have learning difficulties or who need or may need special education services.
• After-School programs being offered at Downing:
  • "Lego Science Explorers" - http://www.mindscalelearning.com/WorkshopsRegistration.aspx
  • "Lego Robotics" -  http://www.mindscalelearning.com/WorkshopsRegistration.aspx
• LISD Health Services Screening Notification - Acanthosis Nigricans or AN screening
• LISD Health Services Fever Policy
• Attention Parents and Guardians - Denton County Health Department H1N1 Flu Recommendations.
  • English version
  • En Espanol
• Vaccination Requirements for the 2009-2010 School Year
• LISD eCourses available to 8th grade through high school students.
• Downing PTA Website - Please Click Here
• Parent Access to Student Grades with eSembler
• Special Education in Texas - Options and requirements for providing assistance to students who have learning difficulties or who need or may need special education services.
• Downing MS Passive Fundraiser Information
• Find an error in a textbook? Click here for information on how to report textbook errors.
  
• The Legacy Garden of Downing Middle School
  • The Downing Promise path has been re-named the Legacy Garden of Downing Middle School. The Goal is the same, but the message is a much broader one: serves as a place of encouragement for new students; direction for current students; and memoriam for exiting students. The Legacy Garden will be lined with a brick that is 4”x8”. Students are to inscribe the brick with a word or phrase of advice, encouragement, and/or wisdom to fellow and future students and/or a thank you to DMS faculty/administration (Click here for more information).