Miller Middle School

10/08/2026

🍂 Fall Break is Oct. 9-12. All schools will be closed on Friday, Oct. 9, and Monday, Oct. 12. We hope all our families enjoy this beautiful time of year!

10/05/2026

At Durango Big Picture High School, learning is personal, purposeful, and rooted in community — and so is the way they end each week!

Every Friday, DBPHS gathers the entire school for "Kick Me Out," a joyful send-off tradition adopted from the Big Picture Learning model. Whether it’s student karaoke or a competitive game of musical chairs, "Kick Me Out" gives students and staff a chance to celebrate their achievements, laugh together, and build the strong sense of belonging that makes DBPHS so unique.

Want to see what makes Durango Big Picture High School such a special place to learn and grow? Come celebrate with us!

🎉 Durango Big Picture High School Grand Opening & Ribbon-Cutting
📅 TONIGHT: Monday, Oct. 5
⏰ 5:30–7 p.m. (Ribbon-cutting at 5:30 p.m.)
📍 281 Sawyer Drive, Suite 400 (Top floor of the Columbine Building)
✨ Join us for speakers, live music, campus tours, student demos, and a chance to meet our amazing staff!

🏡 Schools are at the heart of our community. Stay connected with Durango School District through our free weekly Community Update—featuring student successes, district news, upcoming events, and stories that matter to our community.

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10/01/2026

Seventh-grade science students at Miller Middle School (MMS) got a firsthand look at air-quality monitoring during a special visit from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Air Pollution Control Division.

Using handheld air-quality sensors, young scientists tested theories and measured fine particulate matter (PM2.5) both inside their classrooms and outdoors on campus. The data offered plenty of surprises — including how local plant life interacts with surrounding air quality!

Read the full story on our website: https://ow.ly/6SNX50ZTJfo

School Storytellers: Many thanks to MMS Science Teacher Leigh Gillette for sharing this story tip.

🏡 Schools are at the heart of our community. Stay connected with Durango School District through our free weekly Community Update — featuring student successes, district news, upcoming events, and stories that matter to our community.

📬 Sign up here: https://ow.ly/Vob350ZTJfm

09/13/2026

📣 Help us make school communication easier!

Families receive a lot of information throughout the school year, from schools, teachers, coaches, activities, and the district. We want to make it easier for you to know what you need to know, what you need to do, and where to find information when you need it.

We invite all current DSD families to take about 3 minutes to tell us what’s working and what could be better. Your feedback will help Durango School District (DSD) improve how we communicate with families.

Take the 3-minute Family Communication Pulse:

Families receive a lot of information throughout the school year, from schools, teachers, coaches, activities and the district. We want to make it easier for you to know what you need to know, what you need to do, and where to find information when you need it. Please take about 3 minutes to tell us...

08/10/2026

🎬 What does the Sundance Film Festival, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Adobe and Sony Pictures have to do with students in Durango? Potentially, quite a lot.

💰 A new $250,000 state grant will help connect Durango School District’s creative Career & Technical Education (CTE) programs with professionals and organizations shaping some of the nation’s biggest creative industries. This can open doors that can be harder to access when you’re growing up hundreds of miles from a major industry hub.

Through Creative Educators Network, DSD teachers will tap into relationships with organizations including Adobe, Warner Bros. Discovery, The Walt Disney Company, Sony Pictures, Dolby and Avid. This will bring current industry knowledge, connections and opportunities back to students in Southwest Colorado.

And with the Sundance Film Festival moving to Boulder in 2027, the timing couldn’t be better. 🎥✨

For students interested in fashion, digital media, graphic design, filmmaking, business, multimedia production, set design and more, this is about turning creative talent into real career pathways. Our geography won't limit what they can imagine or who they can learn from.

🗞️ Click the link for the full story.






Huge thanks to our partners for opening doors for our students in Durango:
💙 The Colorado Education Initiative
💙 Creative Educators Network

A $250,000 state grant will strengthen career-connected learning in digital media, graphic design, fashion design, business and construction trades.

07/29/2026

🎉 Save the date: Aug. 5! 🎉 Come celebrate the ribbon-cutting of Ignite Mobile Learning Lab, a new mobile STEAM classroom! Ignite is a partnership between Durango School District (DSD) and Durango Education Foundation (DEF).

Bring the family and be among the first to step aboard this one-of-a-kind learning space, explore hands-on activities in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, & Mathematics). You'll meet the Ignite team and see how this innovative classroom on wheels is bringing exciting learning experiences directly to students across our district.

🗓️ Wednesday, Aug. 5
🕔 5:45 p.m. Ribbon-Cutting; 6:15-7:15 p.m. Tours & Activities
📍 Impact Career Innovation Center (Durango High School campus)

Enjoy:
✨ Tours of the mobile learning lab
🧪 Interactive STEAM activities
🎶 Live music by Stillwater Music
🍪 Light refreshments
🫧 Fun for the whole family

Thanks to the generosity of local businesses, foundations, grant partners, and community donors, DEF raised $363,000 to bring this innovative classroom to life.

🚌 Learn more about Ignite: https://ow.ly/3Rft50Zutlz

07/28/2026

🤖 Durango High School students recently led a hands-on robotics summer camp to introduce 6th- through 9th-grade students to engineering and to inspire future STEM leaders.

The main objective of the camp was for small student teams to design and build a FIRST Tech Challenge "starter bot." The completed robots were designed to launch large wiffle balls into a scoring chamber, similar to playing a game of robotic basketball. 🖥️ 🛠️

Read the full story here: https://ow.ly/wCNb50ZsXo0

07/25/2026

Is your child interested in fall sports at Durango High School, Escalante or Miller? Register by July 27 for football and golf, and by Aug. 3 for all other sports.

Learn more about Fall Sports & Activities Registration here: https://ow.ly/BXlC50ZsXn6

07/13/2026

👋 It’s Meet Us Monday! 👋

This week, we are excited to introduce Mark Arnold, an IT Tech for Durango School District! Mark stays busy supporting the technology needs of our staff and students across three different campuses: Animas Valley Elementary, Park Elementary, and Miller Middle School. 💻✨

🚴‍♂️ When he's off the clock, Mark loves to get outside and enjoy the best of Durango! Like many in our community, he is an avid mountain biker. Recently, he has also picked up disc golf — a fun nod to his childhood days of playing Frisbee — and has been super enjoying his time out on the course. 🥏

Thank you, Mark, for keeping our schools connected and running smoothly every day! 💙



Join our team! https://ow.ly/hN7Y50ZcO2X

07/09/2026

Every child attending a DSD school or childcare facility must have a complete immunization record or exemption submitted to their school, or the child will be unable to attend school until they are compliant with this state law. The immunization record must be from the child's healthcare provider or other immunization provider, and must show that the child is up-to-date on all school-required vaccines, according to their age.

If you plan to have a Certificate of Nonmedical Exemption for your child, please note that the date of the exemption must be on or after July 1, 2026, for the 2026-27 school year.

Note: Starting in the 2026-27 school year, Colorado law will require students to have one dose of Tdap vaccine before their first day of seventh grade.

🧑‍⚕️Learn more about immunizations: https://www.durangoschools.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=512021&type=d&pREC_ID=1033567

🍎 Visit our Back to School Hub: https://www.durangoschools.org/apps/pages/backtoschool