Back to School: Students in Dallas ISD, 31 other North Texas school districts return to class

North Texas students head back to school

Several North Texas school districts brought students back to the classroom. Lancaster ISD teamed up with Metrocare to offer students more support.

DALLAS - Summer vacation is officially over.

Hundreds of thousands of students in North Texas are heading back to school this week, including students in Dallas and Fort Worth.

Dallas ISD students return to school

More than 100,000 Dallas ISD students are heading back to the classroom. It's their first day of school.

Dallas ISD and 31 other local school districts start school on Monday.

The Dallas Independent School District now has 140,000 students and about 10,000 teachers. About 650 of those teachers are new hires for this year.

Amada Urbina is a first-grade bilingual teacher at Dallas ISD's Pershing Elementary School. She said she's excited about the new year and her new class of students.

"I just want for them to be excited to be in the classroom, to be ready to learn and to know that they’re in for a good school year," Urbina said.

It's the first day of school in Dallas

Students in the state's second-largest school district are heading back to school today. FOX 4's Dan Godwin visited with excited teachers at Dallas ISD's Pershing Elementary School.

Other districts starting on Monday include Carrollton-Farmers Branch, Cedar Hill, Eagle Mountain Saginaw, Frisco, Garland, Irving, and Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISDs.

Twenty-nine more districts go back on Tuesday, including Fort Worth, Plano, Richardson, Carroll, Crowley, Duncanville, Granbury, Grand Prairie, Lewisville, and Prosper.

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