Due to the inclement weather, The Reagan Middle School 8th Grade promotion will be held inside of Lancaster Gym at Dixon High School. Thank you for your understanding with this.
We plan to stream the 2024 High School Graduation Ceremony live at 1pm on Sunday, May 26th. It will be accessible via this link: https://youtube.com/live/-FXiIhuJIhc?feature=share
Attention DPS Families! The Dukes beat Freeport last night 9-7 and have advanced to play the Sycamore Spartans tomorrow in the Regional Championship game at Borden Field! The game starts at 2PM. #GoPurple #BePurple
Mrs. Fitzanko’s Honors Spanish Students participated in Wooly Week 2024 at the beginning of April. During this immersive week, students were exposed to many different Spanish activities and a newly released song brought on by Sr. Wooly and his team. This year’s group of dedicated honors students won an autographed copy of the book La Casa de la Dentista signed by the famous Sr. Wooly himself! These honors students earned a total of 145 raffle tickets by participating in different events throughout this week. Wooly Week is conducted yearly with thousands of student and teacher participants across the United States. Congratulations to the Honors Spanish 1, 2, 3, and AP Students!
The Dukes Baseball Regional Semi-Finals are tonight at 4:30pm at home! They are facing the Freeport Pretzels for the chance to move on to the Regional Championship game against Sycamore. Here is a link to the bracket https://www.ihsa.org/data/ba/3bracket.htm #GoPurple #BePurple
At Dixon Public Schools, our motto is A Place to Grow. We are currently taking applications for an Assistant Principal/Dean of Students that will be available for the 24-25 school year at Washington School. Please see the attached flyer and click this link to apply now! Other positions are also available. https://www.applitrack.com/roe47/onlineapp/default.aspx?choosedistrict=true&applitrackclient=38214&category=Administration
Power has been restored at Madison Elementary and RMS. School will proceed as normal today. Thank you for your patience.
Please use our backup phone numbers today to call our schools.
DHS 284-7723
Jefferson 284-7724
Washington 284-7727
District Office 284-7722
For Madison & RMS call 284-7723
Madison Elementary and Reagan Middle School currently do not have power. We are working to get an estimated time to have power restored. There is a plan in place for students who eat breakfast at school. Those students should head directly to the cafeteria. We will keep everyone informed as we know more information.
Congratulations to Olivia Cox! She got 8th in Shot Put and 10th in Discuss at this year's Track and Field State Meet! Read her interview with Shaw local before she went down to Charleston here! https://www.shawlocal.com/sauk-valley/2024/05/16/sauk-valley-media-athlete-of-the-week-dixons-olivia-cox/
Sharing information from our friends at the United Way of Lee County. This takes place every Wednesday starting June 5th-August 7th. Dixon High School, Jefferson School and Washington School begin July 3rd. Please see attached flyer for more information.
Attention DPS Families! The Duchesses Varsity Soccer team is playing for the Regional Championship tonight versus Belvidere North at 5PM! No livestream will be available due to the location of the match. #GoPurple #BePurple
The following DPS staff members received recognition at last night's Board Meeting. We are proud to share that Nick Haws and Tracy Kitzman received their Employee of the Year awards!
Attention DPS Families! The DHS Football Team Shop has been extended until May 20th. Please visit the following link to get your merchandise https://bsnteamsports.com/shop/DHSFB24
The Illinois Principal's Association honors school staff around the state for going above and beyond in the efforts to support our students. We're proud to share the following DPS staff members that received recognition from the IPA for their contributions.
Mindy Donoho and Ryan Deets at Dixon High School were honored for their contributions and Amy Scott at Madsion Elementary School was honored.
Principal Shaner presented the IPA award to Mr. Deets.
John Tate presented the IPA award to Mindy Donoho
Lindsay Mitchell presented the IPA award to Amy Scott.
Most Dixon High School students will have the option to keep their Chromebooks over summer break. Read the article on our website for the details.
https://www.dps170.org/article/1599129
Principal Shaner introduced the May, DHS Student of the Month, Mason Weigle, at the monthly Board of Education meeting. #gopurple
Join us tonight for DHS Choirs Spring Concert and Senior Recognition streamed live from James A. Wiltz Auditorium at 6:30 p.m. Watch the stream here: https://youtube.com/live/4vlfuVG3JZ0?feature=share
We got to celebrate some more students who got Positive Office Referrals at DHS recently!
We got to celebrate some more students who got Positive Office Referrals at DHS recently!
