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. Classifications are based on their football classes for the 2022-23 alignment by the University Interscholastic League, a state entity for academic and athletic competition among public schools. For football, schools are ranked into one of six "classes," based on enrollment, with 6A representing the largest schools and 1A the smallest.
6A Skyline High School (1970)
5A
Division 1 (D1) Moisés E. Molina High School (1997) W. T. White High School (1964) Bryan Adams High School (1957) Sunset High School (1925)
D2 W. H. Adamson High School (1915) Emmett J. Conrad High School (2006) Thomas Jefferson High School (1956) Justin F. Kimball High School (1958) W. W. Samuell High School (1957) Seagoville High School (1928) South Oak Cliff High School (1952) H. Grady Spruce High School (1963) Hillcrest High School (1938) Woodrow Wilson High School (1928)
4A
D1 David W. Carter High School (1966) L. G. Pinkston High School (1964) North Dallas High School (1922) Wilmer-Hutchins High School (1928)
D2 Lincoln High School (1939) Franklin D. Roosevelt High School (1963)
3A James Madison High School (1956)
Other CityLab High School Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Magnet Center School for the Talented & Gifted School of Education and Social Services Judge Barefoot Sanders Law Magnet School of Health Professions School of Science and Engineering The School of Business and Management Kathlyn Joy Gilliam Collegiate Academy Dr. Wright L. Lassiter Jr. Early College High School North Lake Early College High School (Irving, outside of the DISD boundaries but operated by DISD) Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy (6-12) Irma Lerma Rangel Young Women's Leadership School (6-12) New Tech High School at B. F. Darrell (formerly A. Maceo Smith New Tech High School) Trini Garza Early College High School Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Maya Angelou High School Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship Academy at James W. Fannin Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III Global Preparatory Academy at Paul Quinn College
K-8 schools + List of Dallas ISD K-8 schools Name City Notes George Bannerman Dealey Montessori Academy DallasThe school selects students on the basis of academic ability. Eric Nicholson of the Dallas Observer described its acceptance rate as being low like that of Harvard University. It is named after George Bannerman Dealey. Dallas Hybrid Preparatory at Stephen J. Hay Dallas The schools serves students from 3rd-8th grade and operates on a model where each week, students attend the school in person for two days and go to school from home for three days, which is remote learning. Downtown Montessori at Ida B. Wells Academy Dallas The schools serves students from Kindergarten-7th grade Dr. Elba and Domingo Garcia West Dallas STEM School Dallas The school is a collaborative effort between Dallas Independent School District (ISD), Southern Methodist University (SMU), and Toyota USA Foundation. It represents a significant investment in STEM education for the West Dallas community, aiming to provide students with advanced learning opportunities and prepare them for future careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Eduardo Mata Montessori School DallasThe school selects students based on their residence in the district instead of by academics: With students in the Mount Auburn Elementary zone having first priority, Woodrow Wilson High zone students having second priority, and other students after that. Neighborhoods with priority for Mata Montessori include Greenland Hills ("M Streets"), Junius Heights, and Lakewood. - The source states "[...]while Stonewall Jackson Elementary in the M Streets is at 156 percent." even though it is in Lower Greenville Mata was a neighborhood elementary school, Eduardo Mata Elementary School, serving grades 4 through 6, upon its 1997 opening. Its initial enrollment was 600, but it declined down to more than 200 students in 2013, since in 2007 6th graders were reassigned to J. L. Long Middle and Lipscomb Elementary School began taking 4th grade students the following year. In 2014 it was converted into a Montessori choice school. Rosemont Upper and Lower School Dallas Rosemont School is located in North Oak Cliff. It has two parts, the Lower – Chris V. Semos Building for grades pre-kindergarten through 2 and the Upper School for grades 3 through 5. It opened in 1922 as Rosemont Elementary School, with the current lower school opening in 2005. It gained its middle school in 2012. In 2015 of The Dallas Morning News wrote that it had "strong academics, passionate students and devoted parents" and that it "is considered a neighborhood gem in North Oak Cliff".Haag, Matthew. "Popular Dallas ISD principal at Rosemont Elementary to lose her job" (). The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved on April 17, 2015. There are high income White American families in North Oak Cliff who send their children to Rosemont due to the magnet program; overall 66% of the students as of 2018 were classified as low income. The parents stated that principal Anna Brining had worked to make the school strong; in 2015 DISD notified Brining that her contract will not be renewed.
The Rosemont Early Childhood Parent-Teacher Association or RECPTA is focused on fundraising for Rosemont; originally known as the Rosemont Preschool Association, it as of 2010 was the oldest parent-teacher association of an early childhood program as it was first established in 1926. In the local area the nickname for the group is the "Mommy Mafia". RECPTA holds an auction party each year, with about $30,000 netted per session. In 2018 the organization had tension between the board, which wished to use funds to benefit other schools, and the membership, which wanted the board to solely focus on Rosemont.J.P. Starks Math, Science and Technology Vanguard Dallas Solar Preparatory School for Girls at James B. Bonham DallasIt is located in East Dallas, across from Vickery Place. In 2016 the Bonham elementary campus was repurposed as an all-girls elementary and middle school devoted to STEAM.Fernandez, Demond. "Dallas ISD to open first all-girls S.T.E.A.M. school" (Archive). WFAA. September 28, 2015. Retrieved on September 30, 2015. Harry Stone Montessori School DallasThe school selects students on the basis of academic ability. Nicholson described its acceptance rate as being low like that of Harvard University. The Medical District BioMedical School DallasThe school Offers a STEM program based on biomedical science & is located on the ut southwestern campus Walnut Hill International Leadership Academy DallasFormerly Walnut Hill Elementary School William B. Travis Academy/Vanguard for the Academically Talented and Gifted Dallas The school serves 4th-8th grade
Middle schools