6th Grade

• Advisory
• Math 6
• Social Studies
• Science
• English Language Arts
• Art
• Music
• Physical Education
• Computer Science

7th Grade

• Advisory
• Math 7
• Social Studies
• Science
• English Language Arts
• Art
• Music
• Physical Education
• Computer Science

8th Grade

• Advisory
• Math 8
• Math Honors
• Social Studies
• Science
• English Language Arts
• Art
• Music
• Physical Education
• Computer Science

About Our Athletic Program

We are committed to developing an athletic program that supports the holistic development of our students, fostering physical, mental, and emotional health through a balance of athletics and academics. 

The athletic program emphasizes high-level skill and strategies, teamwork, good sportsmanship, school spirit, character building, and fun. The goal is to provide each student with a sense of affiliation, motivation, and accomplishment by balancing a challenging experience with support and encouragement. The athletic program is an integral part of DSST's curriculum and emphasizes living the school's Core Values.

Sports Offered

• Boy's Soccer
• Girl's Volleyball
• Cross Country
• Boy's Basketball
• Girl's Basketball
• Girl's Soccer
• Flag Football

We offer a wide variety of clubs and enrichments. We encourage students to start new clubs if they are interested in one that we do not already offer.

• Speech and Debate
• Student Council
• Black Student Alliance
• Gay Straight Alliance (GSA)
• Lunch Club
• Drama Club
• Coding Club
• Yoga and Mindfulness
• Dungeons and Dragons Club
• Cooking Club
• Workout Club
• Dance Club
• Anime Club
• Art Club
• Skateboarding
• Girls on the Run
• Coding Club
• Youthbiz: Shark Tank Business Competition
• Brain Bowl

In order to fulfill DSST’s mission to eliminate educational inequity and serve all students, we must serve students with disabilities with excellence, to ensure they are welcomed, known and challenged through rigorous academic instruction to achieve their most ambitious post-secondary path. This requires embracing DSST’s view of the human condition and executing on a common set of guiding principles, foundational practices, and key levers that will translate into transformational outcomes for our students with disabilities.

STUDENT OUTCOMES

We aim to ensure that all students with disabilities are known, welcomed, and challenged to succeed within our schools and to achieve their most ambitious post-secondary path. In pursuit of equity and inclusion for all students, we measure our success through the following metrics:

• Student and family sense of belonging
• Re-enrollment
• Academic growth
• HS graduation rate
• Success in college or post-secondary programming

GUIDING BELIEFS

The following guiding beliefs are central to our goals for our students and our approach to ensuring the individual needs of all students are met at DSST. These principles guide our thinking and our decisions at the student, school and network level.

• All Means All - We believe all students, regardless of background, needs, or disability status, can thrive at DSST. In pursuit of our mission, we strive to serve all students’ diverse learning needs so that they may achieve rigorous outcomes while in our schools and succeed on their ideal post-secondary path.
• Culture of Inclusion - We believe students learn best when they are included in their community and classrooms to the fullest extent possible. Meeting this ambitious goal requires the full engagement and collaboration of all community members. A truly inclusive environment requires that parents have input and staff members share ownership of all students.
• Responsibility for Success - We believe that, ultimately, the success of all students is our responsibility. While we hold our students to high expectations and intentionally teach self-advocacy skills, we believe it is our job to provide the supports and instruction necessary to ensure students meet those expectations. We celebrate students’ successes and provide additional learning opportunities when students face obstacles.
• Learning Organization - Serving the diverse needs of all students requires curiosity, openness to new ideas and a drive to be on the forefront of best practices. We must be open to examining what is and is not working for students, trying new things, and adjusting course when necessary.

We provide services to student in Special Education in a variety of ways, including but not limited to:

• Push-in Special Education teachers serve within the general education classroom
• Pull-out services: Special Education teachers pull small groups from the general education classroom to provide Specially Designed Instruction
• Co-teaching- Some of our classes are co-taught with a gen-ed teacher and a special education teacher.
• Special Services, Students who have an identified need on their IEP may gain access to a variety of service providers including, Speech Language Pathologist, Occupational Therapist, Physical Therapist, Vision and Motor therapists, and Mental health service providers, School Psychologists and/or Social Workers.
• Intervention courses: Full courses to provide remedial support in reading or math
• In-class accommodations and modifications as determined by the IEP
• Testing accommodations and modifications as determined by the IEP