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Where Do I Go to School? |
 We have an interactive school boundary map in which you can type in your address and discover your current elementary and middle school, and the high school to which you would be assigned under the redistricting proposal. Give it a try. If you would like to see individual boundary maps for each school, click here for the "Our Schools" directory. |
Senior's Dalzell Field Renovation |
 Our wonderful IT staff has implemented a webcam aimed at our very own Dalzell field. This will allow our citizens to instantly keep up on the progress being made. The webcam can be viewed by clicking here, or the Construction Zone image above. |
Streaming Video from Ch 16 |
 Click here for streaming video from our very own Mediacom Channel 16. There are complete instructions and a downloadable application that will enable you to see our exclusive cable channel on your home computer. If this link doesn't work for you, you may have to upgrade your video application on your computer. Windows Media Player or RealPlayer should work. Click here for an information and instruction page. If you have questions about DCS-TV, please visit our official DCS-TV webpage. |
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The Portal for Parents |
 PowerSchool is an online application exclusively for parents of students in the Dubuque Community School District. It is a "portal for parents," providing access to one's student records, grades, attendance, and many more functions that will enhance the communication between you, your student and your school. Click here for more information and downloadable instructions. |
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la página web en español |
 We are offering instant Spanish Translation of this web page. Now our foreign lanuguage students as well as our English as a second language families in the district can connect with the important information on this website. Other languages are available through babblefish.com. As with many translator sites it sometimes does not recognize parts of speech, agreement, etc. There may be some errors with vocabulary. |
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For Safety's Sake |
 These are "Cell Phone Essentials" or the most important numbers to a parent in the Dubuque Community School District. Among the three numbers are two directly related to the safety of our students. The School Lunch number (elementary lunch menu only). Key these numbers into your cell phone directory right now. If you want to be notified by e-mail, sign up for Iowa School Alerts. |
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Transcript Services |
 Transcripts? We have them! There's a procedure, and a nominal fee, but it's all spelled out on our website. Just click on the diploma. |
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Nurses School-by-School |
 "Go see the nurse. And don't forget your hall pass." The Communicable Disease Chart and the names and numbers of all our school nurses make this page very clickworthy. All kinds of news and information pertaining to kids' health will be posted on the Nurse's Page. |
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 The Sports Schedules for Hempstead and Senior High Schools are available online through a very powerful conference-wide database that is up-to-the-moment including changes due to weather. Also available at this site are team rosters and more. Click here. |
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Student Fees |
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 Click here to go to the Equity Ops and School Services Page. |
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No Child Left Behind |
 Dubuque Community School District is endeavoring to comply and meet if not exceed requirements set forth by the administration. For now, we have published our accountability statement for teacher qualifications, and we invite you, especially the parents of our students, to read this. Meanwhile, stay connected to our website for more information on this effort as this legislation evolves. |
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Need a logo? |
 For the many vendors we have relationships that require good files of our District's logo, we provide the Logoville Library and Logo Manual. Click on the button, and you're in LogoVille! If you should be asked for a log-on name and password, just click cancel, and the page will deploy without it. Some logo data on the page is behind our firewall for internal use only. |
 We are headquarters for the faces & voices website, Dubuque's organization that promotes multi-cultural opportunities, diversity advocacy and understanding, and equal opportunity in all endeavors and walks of life. Click here to learn more about this organization and upcoming events. |
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Here's Something Cool |
 Click here and you can search for resources in the Dubuque Community School's Libraries... yes, all of them. It's part of an online database that has connected every volume in our libraries. |
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Dubuque Schools Foundation |
 "There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why... I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" Those words were said by Robert F. Kennedy more than 40 years ago, and they are the most appropriate description of the mission of the Dubuque School Distrct Foundation. Its focus is funding technology and the performing and visual arts in areas of the district that are difficult to finance through traditional sources. Learn more. |
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FAIR HOUSING IS YOUR RIGHT! |
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Stories Archive |
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Music Festivals |
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| Eisenhower Elementary has become a certified MOVE Model Site (Mobility Opportunities via Education) an extraordinary program that trains educators in the art and science of movement for the physically challenged. It gives these students the opportunity to get up and move. We have a film starring our very own own students. Check it out. | |
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| The historic Tri Double I Music Festival features student musicians and singers from three area high schools in two states, Illinois and Iowa: Senior, Hempstead and Freeport. It's a non-competitive "just let's have fun playing music" event with guest clinicians, professional musicians, and a concert that caps the evening at the Grand River Center where they rocked the packed house. It's an event that's been going on for half a century. See the movie. | |
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| We've got a Crazy Cam video of the Elementary School Track Meet held at the University of Dubuque's Chalmer's Field. Click here. | |
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| You must see this Crazy Cam video of the Saturday Science Bowl at Roosevelt Middle School. Click here. | |
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| Mark and Cheryl Falb, Chad and Laura Chandlee and Kendall Hunt Publishing presented a grant for musical instruments that will extend over a three year period. The fist installment arrived on April 30th, and we had instrumental music students and teachers on hand to receive them. Click here for more photos and an audio file. | |
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| BandFest is this incredible assemblage of musicians from across our district, Wait till you see and hear the music video we produced of the entire concert. | |
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| Celebrate Music is the reincarnation of the traditional spring all-school choir and choral concert. In this logistical makeover, every school gets to showcase itself not only featuring vocal music but dance, show-choirs and a scene from a musical theater presentation. Held in the spacious Senior High School Gymnasium, this first-time and fast-paced event was obviously a hit with the audience if our video is any evidence. | |
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| Click here! This is the coolest, hippest form of entertainment you will likely view on this website. It's the annual JazzFest comprised of band students from our two high schools and our three middle schools. There is some amazing musical virtuosity on display in this video of the entire concert held at Roosevelt Middle School. Click here cats and kittens. | |
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| Click here for the annual StringFest video captured at Hempstead High School this year. | |
Audubon Poster Program |
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| Audubon School's Amy Nauman approached Gary Olsen to help her school with a unique project for their lunch area. They wanted a series of posters to reinforce positive behaviors among students. Gary designed them for production on the large scale Hewlett Packard printer available in the Forum Print Center. Learn more. | |
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Recent Videos On Demand |
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 Families attended the Annual Auduobon Society Eagle Watch at the Grand River Center. This is a tiny Eastern screech owl that was on display from the World Bird Sanctuary, St. Louis, MO. We have an extraordinary Crazy Cam video. |
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| Carver students win first place in a science competition sponsored by Lego and several local and regional sponsors. They built a robot and a means of killing deadly salmonella bacteria found on eggs. We have a film clip and photos. | |
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| Students in the audience of this month's annual Martin Luther King Day Celebration breakfast at the Grand River Center at the Port of Dubuque. We have an hour long video of the entire event which featured a presentation by noted experts on every-day forms of racism that persist in America today, Arthur Woodard and Jim Wuelfing. | |
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| Sophie Runde and Tricia Tigges, our intrepid reporters at the Table Mound Mock Presidential Convention. The exercise in democracy and party politics goes back more than 40 years. We have a five minute movie that will reinforce your belief that our future is in the best of hands. | |
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| Washington Middle School has prepared a little something for the holiday season. It's a most entertaining video segment that is guaranteed to charm. | |
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| The Senior High Madrigal Singers perform all over the Tri-States and here they are at the National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium. Click here. | |
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| The Penn Avenue Show Choir from Hempstead High School do the Holiday Trolley Tour of area retirement homes and rehabilitation centers. | |
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| Students at Senior High School have produced a movie about high school life for incoming freshmen. See it now. And welcome to Senior! | |
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| Crazy Cam visit Carver Elementary and Calle Smith, here pictured with her art teacher, Shirley Deppe. Calle is a finalist in an art contest sponsored by McGraw Hill. Click here for the video telling the whole story. | |
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| One of the LEAP after-school programs for middle schoolers was "Drumline," in which students didn't have to read music to be successful. Join Deb Stevens and the drumline from Washington Middle School. | |
The Garden Organic |
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The national award winning Garden Organic cable TV show is at Farmers' Market in Dubuque in search of the ultimate BLT. Students shop for all the ingredients for making the celebrated sandwich in Iowa's oldest continuously running farmers' market (150 years). You can download all of this season's episodes on demand from this website. |
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Re-scan for Available Channels to find 16 |
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If you choose, you can plug your cable directly into a digital TV without a cable box. Most newer flatscreen TVs with built-in tuners can obtain digital channels that include DCSTV16 and Digital 97-6. "However we've recently discovered not all flatscreen television tuners can obtain the channels on their own," explains Gary Olsen, district media developer. " It depends on the tuner, the manufacturer, and unfortunately there is no consistency among manufacturers," explains Olsen. Since the change occurred in mid-December, we've received numerous calls from folks who suddenly lost Channel 19 and wonder why they can no longer receive it. "On most flat screen sets in which you've attached your cable directly without a box, you have to re-scan for new channels and they will automatically be added to your TV's tuner memory. To activate the re-scan for channels, you must open the command in the TVs setup menu that is accessible with your TV's remote control. Some of us did this when we received a new set and turned it on for the first time," explains Olsen."And we never did it again," he adds. "You have to open your TV's menu (usually designated by a button on your remote), and then select from the menu. " Scan for Available Channels." If you still can't receive Channel 16, or 97-6, call your cable company or get one of the free cable boxes offered by Mediacom. Also, to obtain Digital 97-6, some TV remotes require you to type in the hyphen between 97 and 6. Other remotes don't require the hyphen. "With all of the new digital channels and types of tuners on the market, it can be a little messy." adds Olsen. "But if the number of calls we received are any indication of our channel's popularity, than I guess we are popular." |
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Facilities Planning |
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| Superintendent Dr. Larie Godinez and the School Board encourage you to keep up with the ongoing updates to our Long Range Facilities Planning webpage. Click here to learn more. | |
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 Dubuque Senior will added six athletes to its Athletic Hall of Fame this year. Click here for photos and bios. |
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Kids in the Kitchen Season 5 |
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 Above, the kids are making the world's most delicious brownies on this season's sixth episode of Kids in the Kitchen, a cable TV show dedicated to the idea that kids will learn what to eat if they know how to cook. Hosted by noted area chef, Jim Terry, the show is actually about the history, literature, math and science of cooking. Nutrition has become a big part of our learning objectives in the district, and our own home-grown, national award winning cable show has been the vanguard of cooking from scratch and the "slow food movement" that is sweeping the nation. Click on the magic frypan to visit the show's official website where you can download the latest episodes of this new season of entertaining and informative shows. Kids in the Kitchen films at Hy-Vee Asbury Plaza from January through April. Learm more on the Season 5 Web site. Watch episodes on Mediacom 16 and 97-6 on your TV's digital tuner. |
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New Series about Art |
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Some one once said, "School without art would be just numbers, letters, and the lingering smell of formaldehyde." It was this quote that inspired us to take our camera into the classroom for this innovative series on student art, artists and art teachers. The connection between art and developing problem solving, collaboration and study skills is profound as the research indicates. Join us on this learning journey as we explore the wonderful world of student art. See episodes 1 to 4 on Mediacom Cable 16 and digital tier 97-6 or download the episodes right now. |
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The Digital Fringe |
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Keystone AEA Supplemental Educational Services |
 Keystone AEA has released information on their upcoming supplemental services for Dubuque Community Schools. Click here for the readable PDF document. |
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Facility Beliefs |
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The current dropout and graduation data for the State of Iowa is posted on the Iowa Department of Education's website at www.iowa.gov/educate. The graduation rate calculation is different from prior years. For the first time, the DE is determining its graduation rates using the National Governors Association (NGA) adjusted cohort formula, which is a calculation agreed upon by the governors all 50 states. Iowa is among approximately 20 states that currently use the NGA cohort rate. The goal is that all states will use a cohort rate by 2012. Previously, Iowa used the “leaver rate” calculation, which was used by approximately 30 states in the nation. |
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Financials Online |
 The Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for Fiscal 2009 is now publised online. As its name implies, this document is the most comprehensive examination of the School District's finances than has ever been published before. Our Business & Finance Department, under the direction of our district's CFO, Ron Holm, compiled the report. Click here. |
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District in Need of Assistance |
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Your schools individual data is available by clicking on the Our Schools button at the top of this Webpage. |
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Safe and Drug Free Schools |
| Click here for an update on Dubuque Community Schools' Goals for Safe and Drug Free Schools from Student Services administrator, Shirley Horstman (PDF). It not only shows the goals set forth, but the progress we've made on those goals so far. |
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Iowa AEAs - Impacting Lives |
| No two children are alike. Some race through life at top speed, some are thoughtful and inquisitive, and some require help for basic learning and physical skills. Area Education Agencies support and impact the lives of all children in our education system. For more information about your Area Education Agency, go to http://www.iowaaea.org |
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Math Trailblazers for Parents? |
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A Spectacular Resource |
 Okay local history buffs, here's something your learning library cannot be without. It's the online Encyclopedia Dubuque. A massive online volume of facts pertaining to Dubuque and environs with a super search engine. What a great tool for a local history unit. Click on the link and give it a look. |
| Mental Health Services Guide |
 There is a marvelous resource that has been compiled by the Dubuque area mental health community and its many participating professionals that is now available online (in PDF). It is perhaps the most definitive resource guide to mental health services, agencies, professionals and adjunct organizations (substance abuse, spousal abuse) involved in counseling and support. Click here to download and keep. |
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| The Kids Expo 2011 was held October 29th at Grand River Center, and our Crazy Cam was there. Join host Justin Noel as we tour the expo and we watch some amazing stage acts. |
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| Episode 2 of our new series, SPLASH is online and on Cable TV Channel 16. Our series takes you to Senior High School and Brad Fautsch's class as we sculpt teapots. Form follows function, but occasionally function follows form like in this example. |
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| Everyone into the pool! Water aerobics represents a partnership between the Dubuque Community Y and Washington Middle School. Check out this wonderful success. |
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| The annual Eagle Point Park Family Fun Run is an event organized by the health and wellness teachers, and we have the video. |
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| Jefferson Middle School has produced a video for beginning sixth graders before they embark on their adventure in middle school. The elementary students were asked what their greatest fears and concerns were about moving up. The Jefferson students answer those questions totally unrehearsed and unscripted. It's a great movie. |
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| LEAP stands for Learning Enrichment After-school Program, and it is aimed at keeping kids engaged in their learning community. Statistics show that kids involved in after-school programs are far less likely to drop out of school. We're kicking off the school year with community partnerships to provide these programs to youth. Learn more. |
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Apprehensive about attending middle school? The students of Roosevelt and Washington Middle Schools have created videos for incoming 6th graders. Click on the top picture for Roosevelt's video and the botton one form Washington's. They are part of the "Survival Guide Series" created by students and made possible by a grant from the Iowa Department of Education. |
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Hempstead High School can be a big place to an incoming freshman. Let's take a tour with the students themselves in this Hempstead High School Survival Guide. |
Looking for comparative data on Dubuque Schools? There are a couple of places that maintain active data on performance, and provide you with extraordinary tools to compare schools not just in the community, but the state, region and nation as a whole. You can visit the Department of Education for the State of Iowa which as excellent data resources, but one that is extremely popular with parents is 
The Iowa Department of Education has announced Iowa districts (Districts in Need of Assistance) and schools (Schools In Need of Assistance). Dubuque and seven of its schools have been designated. The designations are determined by statistical data from standardized testing. Analysis of the data that is tracked over time determines if a school is showing signs of improvement or decline of performance based on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills and the Iowa Test of Educational Development (ITBS/ITED). The schools include Prescott, Marshall, Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, Central and Senior. More on this topic is forthcoming as well as disaggregated analysis of the data and current school initiatives used to increase student achievement. 
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