Dallas ISD

Spacious Traditional Zoned for New Dallas ISD STEAM Campus

By Bethany Erickson / May 11, 2019 /

It’s already one of the best schools in Dallas ISD, but Kleberg Elementary will be a STEAM — that’s Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math to the uninitiated — school next year, and we’ve found a house that can get a family in that school well before the end of summer. Kleberg earned a B…

Texas Sellers Spend About 10 Years In Their Homes, New Report Says

By Bethany Erickson / May 6, 2019 /

Two Dallas ISD schools make a national list of best high schools, the 2019 Texas Homebuyers and Sellers Report​ is out, and we take a look at how the state housing market fared in March, all in this week’s roundup of real estate news. Two Dallas ISD High Schools Ranked in Top 20 Nationally The…

School’s Out, Forever: What Do You Do With a Mothballed Building?

By Bethany Erickson / May 5, 2019 /

Three Dallas ISD schools — shuttered for years, are now up for sale, the district announced last month. It’s uncertain how much they’ll go for in the competitive, sealed bidding process, but one of the mothballed schools — Phillis Wheatley Elementary — is considered to be a historic site. That the three schools are up…

Dallas ISD’s Jack Lowe Elementary Makes 180 in Four Years

By Bethany Erickson / May 4, 2019 /

Four years ago, if we had told you that we were going to talk about Jack Lowe Elementary and laud it, you might have been taken aback. Nowadays, it’s more unusual not to talk about the amazing turnaround of the little school that could. The school was ranked as one of the state’s 50 lowest…

The House May Be a Fixer, But Gonzalez Elementary Gets an A

By Bethany Erickson / April 27, 2019 /

For this week’s School Plus House, we head to Henry Gonzalez Elementary School in Pleasant Grove, which has earned a whole slate of accolades in the past few years, and was recently featured as one of Dallas ISD’s Best Schools. The school offers more than 20 extracurricular activities, including Chinese (seriously, Chinese). Next year, they’ll…