INSIDE DSISD

Congratulations on another outstanding school year! Before we close out the 2025-26 school year on Friday, please take a moment to watch this short end-of-year message from Superintendent Dr. Holly Morris-Kuentz.

As a reminder, Friday is an early release day for all campuses, and buses will drop off riders three hours earlier than their regular schedule.

Friday, May 22 Early Release Times
Elementary: 12:05 PM
Secondary: 1:10 PM

DSISD wishes you a safe, restful, and enjoyable summer break!

Annual Verification for the 2026-27 school year is open for all Dripping Springs ISD students. State law requires this process to be completed each year for all students – those who have previously been enrolled in DSISD and those who are new to our district and previously completed registration in the spring.

Parents can begin the process by logging into Skyward Family Access. A reminder email with Family Access login information is sent prior to the verification window opening.

Please complete verification for each child in your family as soon as possible; this process should be completed by Saturday, May 23. During the verification process, parents will complete back-to-school forms. This process takes approximately 30 minutes to complete.

If you have problems with the online process, please contact your child’s campus and ask for the Skyward Family Access contact/Student Records Specialist. Computers are available at campuses for those who do not have one available at home.

The Dripping Springs ISD Board of Trustees voted to name the district’s second comprehensive high school, Driftwood Springs High School, in a 6-1 vote at the May 18 meeting.

The name Driftwood Springs continues DSISD’s longstanding tradition of including the word “springs” in school names. Driftwood Springs was a popular write-in on the community survey and was one of five recommended names by the community-based Naming & Branding Committee. Driftwood Springs High School will be the district’s second campus located in Driftwood and its 10th campus overall. The school will have a capacity of 2,500 students and is projected to open for the 2028-29 school year.

In addition to the approximately 506,000-square-foot main building, the campus will include baseball and softball fields, tennis courts, two practice fields, a band practice lot, an agriculture barn, and a sub-varsity competition stadium.

The district plans to announce the school’s color and mascot in the fall.

Dripping Springs High School sophomore Izzy Crew captured a state title at the UIL Track & Field State Meet on Friday, May 19, earning a gold medal and setting a new state record in the wheelchair shot put. Her performance also earned her UIL Athlete of the Meet honors for the second consecutive year.

Crew broke the previous state record, set in 2023, by more than a foot with a throw of 21-0.75 on her sixth and final attempt. The mark edged Goliad’s Ava Soliz by three inches to secure the state championship.

In addition to her shot put title, Crew earned silver medals in the 100-meter and 400-meter races with times of 18.54 and 1:09.63, respectively.

In 2025, Crew became the first Tiger athlete to compete in the Wheelchair Division at the UIL State Meet, earning gold in the 400 meters and silver in the 100 meters and shot put.

Dripping Springs High School senior Leela Bertram earned a third-place finish in Individual Set Design at the UIL Theatrical Design State Contest on Saturday, May 16, at the Austin ISD Performing Arts Center.

Competing at the state contest for the third consecutive year, Bertram and fellow designers were challenged to create a design for the play, The King Stag, that captured both the joyful spirit of a wedding and the stylized playfulness of commedia dell’arte. The prompt encouraged students to blend classic and contemporary elements by drawing inspiration from the traditional wedding theme: “something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.”

Bertram previously captured a UIL state championship in Group Design in 2025 and earned fourth-place finishes in Set Design in both 2024 and 2025.

The Tiger Baseball team will look to advance to the state semifinals in back-to-back seasons for the first time in program history as it faces Pharr-San Juan-Alamo in a best-of-three regional final series in South Texas.

The Tigers and Bears meet in the regional finals for the second consecutive year after Dripping Springs won the series in a winner-take-all game 3 in 2025.

Last week, the Tigers swept La Joya with 3-2 and 9-7 victories, while PSJA defeated Westlake in a three-game series.

Game 1 and game 3 (if needed) of the regional final series will take place at Calallen High School in Corpus Christi, while game 2 will be held at Coastal Bend College in Beeville.

REGIONAL FINALS

Game 1 (Calallen HS, Corpus Christi)

Thursday, May 21 / 6:00 PM

Tickets

Game 2 (Coastal Bend College, Beeville)

Friday, May 22 / 4:00 PM

Tickets: $5 / sold at gate (no cash)

*Game 3 (Calallen HS, Corpus Christi)

Saturday, May 23 / 3:00 PM

*if needed