Dallas ISD now has a school zone search tool

[Vicman]

If any of you are considering moving into a house within Dallas ISD (which covers most of Dallas as well as all or portions of several other municipalities), you can use this tool http://www.dallasisd.org/inside_disd/depts/evalacct/FindSchools.cfm to check for the zoned schools of your address.

The tool came out this year, so I decided to post a link to this forum :)

[shaun3000]

Would it have been to difficult to just type in the fucking address? Pick your city. Now the first letter of your street. Now your street. OK, great, now what's your address?

Oh, and the form posts to LOCAL HOST. Guess that's the DISD for ya.

[CityLove]

Did anyone else have problems with this search tool? I can't get the results to come up - just get an error message.

[shaun3000]

I did, it's because of what I said in the last half of my message. When you hit the search button, it sends the data to a program on YOUR computer. The only problem is that program is located on THEIR computer. Someone screwed the forum up.

[Vicman]

The zone tool worked on my copy of Mozilla Firefox. It's just that it uses processes that are not needed (e.g. what Shaun pointed out)!

Here is the address I used - 1155 Broom, Dallas, TX - of the Victory Hotel and Residences ( www.victoryresidences.com/ ) - This shows Esperanza ES, Rusk MS, and North Dallas HS as the zoned schools for the condos.

Compare this to the Houston ISD search tool seen here: http://dept.houstonisd.org/ab/abcx_tool/search.asp

And I'll hand you guys an address to show what the Houston ISD zone tool does - 909 Texas

You guys should tell DISD that the tool may not work on certain browsers or computers.

[CityLove]

I got it to work here at home. Here's what's posted for my address, in downtown:


A student residing at 1900 ELM ST in DALLAS
will attend the following schools in the 06/07 school year:

Elementary School (Grades K - 5): CITY PARK

Middle School (Grades 6 - 8): BILLY EARL DADE

High School (Grades 9 - 12): JAMES MADISON

[Lakewooder]

Of course you can also just look on the map(s):

http://www.dallasisd.org/eval/schoolinfo/indexzones.htm

[Insidetheloop]

The new Conrad High School footprint is squirrely

http://www.dallasisd.org/eval/schoolinfo/highzones2006/Conrad2006.pdf

Conrad changed the way all the High Schools in North Dallas are fed. Weird.

[Hannibal Lecter]

The new Conrad High School footprint is squirrely
That's what you get when you build a high school within a couple hundred yards of the school district boundry. I was told by someone who would know that a Dallas City Council Rep was involved in the purchase, and profited greatly, but since I don't have confirmation of I don't want to mention the name.

[disruptivehair]

I went to Pershing, Franklin, and Hillcrest. If I were a kid now, I'd go to Nathan Adams, ED Walker, and WT White. That's reason enough NOT to buy in my parents' neighborhood...unless those three schools have vastly improved. Actually, didn't ED Walker used to be the city's SPED center?

[Insidetheloop]

Actually, didn't ED Walker used to be the city's SPED center?

Yep. When E.D. Walker was built, they shut down Franklin and turned it into some alternative school for handicapped kids, head cases and violent kids. That was around 1980 or so? They gutted Franklin to make it tard friendly and in the process screwed up much of the floorplan. You may recall that it has some weird ramps and handrails inside of it.

E.D. Walker did not go over well with parents because very few students actually lived near the school....so they flip-flopped back to Franklin and made E.D. Walker the handicapped kid school.

The underlying reason was that North Dallas was unique if you were born in the early to mid 70's. The birth rate was so low in that part of town that Dealey and Kramer elementary schools were mothballed. The three remaining elementary schools Rogers, Preston Hollow and Pershing only had one small kindergarten class a piece. I guess this can be chalked up to alot of the original home owners in North Dallas reaching retirement age and large numbers of single young people living in apartment complexes. Once could also say that forced busing/desegregation drove many kids into private schools at this time but those numbers were low too.

[Lakewooder]

I too was surprised by the Conrad district...looks as if it's taking part of BA while if you look at the new Hillcrest district it seems part of TJ is being added.

What will happen if Vickery Meadows becomes gentrified with new townhomes after DISD has built 5 new schools? Then you will really see some strange feeder patterns I fear...

BTW, W.T. White and Hillcrest are still good schools, they along with my Woodrow were all named in the top 5% of all high schools in the nation on Newsweek's recent list.

[UrbanHope]

I bet that fixing the search tool will require a press conference and another committee of people paying $500 per hour to fix the problem.

[UrbanHope]

What will happen if Vickery Meadows becomes gentrified with new townhomes after DISD has built 5 new schools? Then you will really see some strange feeder patterns I fear...



I wa thinking the same thing about this area as well as the Skillman/Audelia/Abrams area which is about to be (apt complex) teardown city.