History
East Dallas Community School (EDCS) is an early childhood learning center with programs to meet the needs of children from birth to age nine. The school was founded in 1978 for the specific purpose of proving that all children, regardless of race or income, can succeed in school when we start young and involve parents.

From its humble beginnings of educating a single class of eight children in donated space, East Dallas Community School has expanded to a 7 classroom campus serving just over one hundred low-income, inner city children. In August 1999, East Dallas Community School opened a second campus, a public charter school that replicates the academic programs and success of the privately funded model. Together the two campuses of East Dallas Community School serve more than 250 children and their parents.

Philosophy of Education
East Dallas Community School is guided by the Montessori philosophy of education. That philosophy is rooted in Dr. Montessori’s conviction (which has been confirmed by our experience at East Dallas Community School) that, unless severely impaired, “children naturally have the same drive to develop in a cognitive sense as they do in a physical sense. The desire of an elementary student to master equivalent fractions can be just as strong as the desire of the infant to crawl, unless the desire has been diminished by the circumstances of the child’s life.”   

Board Meeting Dates & Agenda:

January 14th at 11:30am (Conference Call)

January 20th at 11:30 am


-Agenda will be available 72 hours before each meeting.

Click here for the Highly Qualified Teacher Report (Posted January 14th, 2010)

Click here for the Texas State Department of Health Services 2007-08 immunization requirements in English and Spanish.

NCLB Report Card (Posted March 30, 2009)
Assessment Summary Results

Adequate Yearly Progress 2008

April SDAA II Grade 3 2006

April SDAA II Grade 3 2007

April TAKS Grade 3 Exit Level English 2006

April TAKS Grade 3 Exit Level English 2007

Feb TAKS Grade 3 English 2006

Feb TAKS Grade 3 English 2007

March TAKS Grades 3, 5, and 8 Reading 2008

March TELPAS K-12 2008

March TELPAS K-3 2006

March TELPAS K-3 2007

April TAKS 3-10 and Exit Level 2008


2007 AEIS report from Texas Education Agency.