Welcome to the 2018-19 school year! Our staff is busily preparing for your students’ arrival. Below you’ll find some helpful information for the new year. Be sure to bookmark the District website and your school’s individual website. They are good resources to keep you informed throughout the year. Visit your school’s site for contact…

Calling all athletes: Need a sports physical for fall sports? The Student Health Center at David Douglas High School is hosting Sports Physical Clinic days on Aug. 7-9. Call 503-988-3554 to make an appointment. More info available on the student health centers site.

Watch the graduation ceremonies for DDHS and FRC via the links below. Fir Ridge Campus held their commencement on Friday, June 1st. 79 students graduated. View FRC ceremony David Douglas High School held their commencement on Wednesday, June 6th. 555 students graduated. View DDHS ceremony   Congratulations class of 2018, we’re proud…

Dear Parents and Guardians: Over the last two months, the District has sought input from families, staff and community members about our school bell schedules. In short, we wanted to know what times you think school should start and end next school year. About 2,300 people took our bell schedule survey, we…

A communication regarding the 2018-19 bell schedule for our schools is currently being prepared and translated and will be shared with our families and staff this week. This communication will include a brief summary of our bell schedule survey, a link to the complete survey results, as well as a decision about…

Looking for some new activities to entertain the family? Check out these inexpensive ideas around town. Before you visit one of these venues, please double check their website or call ahead for up-to-date details, incase their hours, rates or programming has changed.   Craft Workshops Home Depot Free Offers a kids workshop the…

Once again, music programs from across the country are celebrating Music In Our Schools Month (MIOSM). The nationally recognized celebration, led by the National Association for Music Education, has been taking place since 1985. What began as an advocacy day in New York on March 14th, 1973 expanded nationwide to a month…

Two DDSD schools recently worked on a very neat collaborative project together. At Floyd Light Middle School, Jeanne Drake’s 8th grade Advanced English students created very thoughtful poems about what it feels like to be 13/14 years old. Then Michelle Colbert’s art students, at Fir Ridge, created water color illustrations to accompany…

The David Douglas School District seeks to create a Native American/Alaska Native parent advisory group to help us reach out to our Native American community. Any Native American parent is invited to attend our Native American/Alaska Native Night to begin talking about the purpose and goals of this advisory group. Our next…

It’s time to nominate your favorite teacher for Oregon’s 2019 Regional Teachers of the Year! Anyone can make a nomination. All Oregonians are encouraged to nominate their favorite teacher today at oregonteacheroftheyear.org The Oregon Department of Education, in partnership with the Oregon Lottery, is pleased to announce that the Oregon Teacher of the Year program…