Welcome back Park Elementary students! We are so grateful to have our school full of children again! Our Park students have come back ready to pay it forward! We would like to congratulate a few of our students who were nominated by their teacher for exhibiting habits of a mindful learner - teamwork, wonder, empathy, responsibility and perseverance. Way to go Jazz T. and Charlie B.!

¡Bienvenidos de nuevo los estudiantes de Park Elementary! ¡Estamos muy agradecidos de tener nuestra escuela llena de niños otra vez! ¡Nuestros estudiantes de Park han vuelto dispuestos a darlo todo! Nos gustaría felicitar a algunos de nuestros estudiantes que fueron nominados por su maestro por exhibir hábitos de un aprendiz consciente - trabajo en equipo, asombro, empatía, responsabilidad y perseverancia. ¡Así es Jazz T. y Charlie B.!

This year, we anticipate fewer quarantines, due to the population-based approach and masking. Students who are absent will follow the attendance policy, making up work when they return unless the teacher plans otherwise. (This applies even if the student is in isolation or a quarantined determined by San Juan Basin Public Health) . We will not conduct live teaching or Zooming into classrooms during absences as was done during quarantines in the 20-21 school year.

Dear Durango School District 9-R community,

We hope you are enjoying a wonderful summer. We look forward to the new school year, which begins August 24. Here are updates regarding our COVID-related health protocols for the 2021-22 school year.

Mark your calendars for September 15, 2021 at 5:30pm to join 9-R Board Member Theresa Rodriguez to share your ideas and suggestions to support the ongoing work of the district.
Location details to follow. Translation services are available.

This year, Durango School District 9-R will provide breakfast and lunch to all students free of charge, regardless of the child’s free or reduced-price meal benefit status.

With less than a month before school begins, we wanted to remind families, both new and existing, to complete registration for their student(s) on InfiniteCampus.

As part of the Sustainability Promises by the District, 9-R is looking to create a Sustainability Committee composed of staff, students, parents and local experts.

Join 9-R Board of Education members Wednesday, June 16, 2021, from 12-1pm, to have an informal conversation about how everything is going for you and your student. The meeting will be on Zoom, and a live interpreter will be available.

Have a wonderful and safe summer, play outside a lot, make new friends, be kind and read a fun book! Looking forward to a brand new school year. We will be returning to a traditional school week with in-person learning, Monday through Friday from 8:00am - 3:00pm. There will be no early release next year. The first day of school will be August 24th, 2021.

We are committed to sharing our student achievement data with transparency. We recognize the incredible effort put forth by our staff this year and are grateful for their perseverance and flexibility. Yet, our end-of-year assessment data tells us that our students need intentional and unified support to ensure that the impacts of the pandemic are not long-lasting and far-reaching in our students' literacy and math skills. We are working with great urgency to turn around our historical trend of under-serving portions of our community and to minimize the impact of disrupted learning COVID-19 has had on all of our learners.