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Posted January 17, 2025
We have NO SCHOOL on Monday, January 20 in honor of Martin Luther King Day. We’ll see you again on Tuesday, January 21!
Round 1 of the 2025-2026 SchoolChoice application window opened on Wednesday, January 15 and runs through Tuesday, February 18.
Please refer to the table below to determine if you need to submit a 2025-2026 SchoolChoice application for your student.
| I have an incoming ECE-4 student. | Yes, you must complete a SchoolChoice application and a Universal Pre-K (UPK) application (due Monday, February 3) for this student. See the UPK section below for more information. |
| I have an incoming kindergarten student. | Yes, you must complete a SchoolChoice application for this student. |
| I have a 1st – 4th grade student currently enrolled at McKinley. | No, current McKinley students in kindergarten through 4th grade do not need to complete a SchoolChoice application. These students are guaranteed a spot at McKinley until they graduate. |
| I have a 5th grade student currently enrolled at McKinley. | You are strongly encouraged to complete a SchoolChoice application for 6th grade. |
| I have a 1st – 4th grade student at a different school but I would like them to attend McKinley next year. | Yes, you must complete a SchoolChoice application for this student. |
For more information about the SchoolChoice process, including an explanation of the Universal Pre-K application (required for incoming ECE-4 students), please read through this informational flyer. This flyer is also coming home in our January 17 Friday folders.
Please contact our main office at (720) 424-5600 or McKinley_Thatcher@dpsk12.org, or stop by between 7:30 a.m. and 3:15 p.m.
Join us for the most important Collaborative School Committee (CSC) meeting of the year! We’ll be discussing next year’s school budget and voting on how to spend our money.
We are meeting on Tuesday, January 21 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Google Meet at this link: https://meet.google.com/idb-viyp-wxk.
Minutes from last month’s meeting can be found here.
For more information on what the CSC is and how DPS budgeting works, visit this webpage.
We invite you to donate children’s picture books that are in good condition, with clean pages and intact covers, to our Free Book Friday giveaway program. Please note that we are specifically looking for picture books and are not accepting chapter books at this time. Our grey donation bin will be located just outside the main office during regular school hours.
Donating your gently used picture books helps provide new reading opportunities for our children while giving these beloved stories a second life. Thank you for supporting our reading community! If you have questions or need more information about making a donation, please contact our school librarian, Ms. Karen Goldberg, at MaryKaren_Goldberg@dpsk12.net.
We are also looking for help with our Free Book Friday giveaways on most Fridays from January through May. We are handing out books from our donation boxes for FREE to our students after school, and we need volunteers to make this possible! If you’d like to assist, please sign up here.
Click here to view the McKinley-Thatcher school calendar.