Due to the number of Snow Day school closures this winter, Durango School District 9-R has announced a plan to make up school days in the remainder of the 2022/23 school year.

The Durango School District 9-R Inclusive Excellence Guiding Coalition is composed of approximately 35 staff, parents, community members, and students. This is the third year that a group of stakeholders has helped to inform, lead, and champion the diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) strategic plan.

Construction of the new Miller Middle School officially began with a groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday, January 5. The new school is projected to open August 2024 for the 2024-25 school year.

Tiffany Miera, 5th Grade Math Teacher at Needham Elementary School, was awarded the prestigious Milken Educator Award on Tuesday at an assembly at Needham Elementary School. The award was a surprise and Tiffany didn’t know until her name was announced.

Students and teachers have a reason to celebrate this fall: Cumulative test scores from all schools show Durango School District 9-R is ranked in the top 20 percent of all school districts in Colorado.

As we begin the 2022-23 school year, Dr. Karen Cheser shares her Top 10 list of great things to expect this year, across Durango School District 9-R.

Notice is hereby given that a proposed budget has been submitted to, and adopted by, the Board of Education of Durango School District 9-R for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2022, and has been filed in the district finance department where it is available for public inspection.

Dear Durango School District 9-R community,
Thank you for your continued support and flexibility as we strive to create meaningful learning opportunities for our students throughout the most recent wave of COVID-19. As cases and transmission in our community lessen, there is an opportunity for our district to adjust our COVID-19 response.

The 9-R School District has decided to end our stakeholder survey regarding masking in our schools after having been shown compelling evidence of an effort within the greater community to skew the results.

The Durango 9-R Board of Education unanimously passed a Resolution in Support of Paying Off the Budget Stabilization Factor in 2022. The resolution was presented as a request from the Durango Education Association and the Durango Education Support Professionals Association. The Budget Stabilization Factor, also known as the Negative Factor, was created when the state borrowed $1 billion from public education funding to help with economic recovery from the Great Recession. Eleven years later the state has failed to pay back public education to the tune of nearly $10 billion, owing Durango 9-R alone more than $60 million.