Park Wellness Team, City of Durango (Daybreak Rotary Club, Police Dept., Durango DEVO, Gray Matters and STUCO), Park Elementary Staff & parent volunteers will be hosting the Safe Routes to School Bike Rodeo. Events will include two bike rodeo stations, helmet fitting and safety & education stations.

We would like to invite families to the District-wide Elementary Music Festival featuring our Orchestra & Choir students on May 4th (Thurs.) from 6:00pm-7:00pm at the Durango High School Gymnasium. Orchestra students will dress in white shirts and black pants or long black skirts and should arrive at 5:30 pm. Choir students will dress the same and arrive at 5:45pm.

School districts in Southwest Colorado work together to purchase beef from Colorado ranchers to bring healthier, sustainably produced and regionally sourced food to our lunch programs

Hello Park Families,

I would like to personally invite you to attend the Park Panther Orchestra Concert at the cafeteria on Wed. May 3 at 5:35-6:30 pm. Ms. Emily Huntsman and Ms. Sandy Kiefer have worked all year with these students and are proud to share their progress.

Registration windows are fast approaching for the 2017/18 school year. Click here for more information about registration windows for preschool and kindergarten, new students, existing students and open enrollment.

Durango School District 9-R is proud to announce the implementation of the Student Tracking System on our school buses. All students will be issued Student IDs this year that will work interactively with our bus tracking system, as well as other systems in the school, such as the library. Using the cards, students will scan when they get on and off the buses. This new safety feature allows the Transportation Department, our schools, parents, and guardians to follow bus schedules and routes, and whether or not their student is on the bus. With the Student Tracking System, the school district is able to increase its safety measures and identification processes for all students.

Park Elementary will be registering upcoming kinders and preschoolers on Wednesday, April 19th from 8:00am-3:00pm in the front office. Parents must do the ONLINE registration step first before coming to Park Elementary on April 19th. See more details below...

Are you going to be in kindergarten for the upcoming 2017-18 school year? Parents & Kindergartners for 2017-18  ---- Come meet the kinder teachers, ask questions and get a tour of Park Elementary.  FREE Park Panther T-SHIRTS for our upcoming kinders.

April 4th thru April 21st (see details on the Read More >>>> tab)

Park Elementary is excited for Student-Led Conferences April 10th or 11th. Student led conferences engage children in understanding and taking ownership of their learning. There are multiple benefits for student led conferences. Students are given a voice in their education and accept and communicate personal responsibility for their learning. Students who participate in student-led conferences allow students to reflect on their progress and build goals around areas of strengths and weaknesses. At Park, we believe students who lead their conferences are building self-confidence, presentation skills, and critical-thinking.