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DCG Creators – October 2025
Categories: UncategorizedWe are excited to showcase our DCG Creators for the month of October! These incredible members of Team DCG were nominated by their colleagues for living out our district’s core values. DCG Creators – October 2025
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Learning the Laws
Categories: UncategorizedSecond grade students at North Ridge Elementary are wrapping up a social studies unit focusing on laws and rules in our community. They presented their learning to classmates and building staff in October. Check out their final product in the video associated with this story.
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Homecoming Week at Dallas Center-Grimes
Categories: UncategorizedIt’s been an exciting week at DCG! Homecoming Week is a showcase of the incredible school spirit in our district. Watch the video associated with this story for an inside look at our pep rallies!
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DCG Creators – September 2025
Categories: UncategorizedWe are excited to showcase our DCG Creators for the month of September! These talented professionals were nominated by their colleagues for anchoring their work in DCG’s core values. The district will honor new DCG Creators each month! September 2025 – DCG CreatorsDeb Cale – Principal – Dallas Center ElementaryMallory DeLacy – Counselor – Dallas…
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Iowa School Performance Profile Results at DCG
Categories: UncategorizedThe Iowa Department of Education has released its 2024-25 Iowa School Performance Profile scores – these profiles are a measure of schools across the state based on several data sources. We look forward to sharing our district’s scores, celebrating our success, and providing additional information about how DCG CSD will use this data moving forward. …
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First Day of Preschool at DCG
Categories: UncategorizedDCG preschoolers are off and running in the 2025-26 school year! We are so proud to welcome these bright, curious learners to the DCG family. Here’s to a wonderful year of friendships, creativity, and new adventures! Watch the video tab to check out the sights and sounds of an awesome first day!
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Day One at DCG CSD
Categories: UncategorizedDallas Center-Grimes CSD kicked off the 2025-26 school year on Monday, August 25. If day one is any indication, an incredible year is on the horizon! Here’s a look at the sights and sounds of our first day together!
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DCG’s Create Board Tour
Categories: UncategorizedEmpowering Every Student to Create Their Future – a promise our district is making to you, our students. Dallas Center-Grimes CSD unveiled a new mission statement ahead of the 2025-26 school year. Before the first bell rang, we took a “create board” through our district. The question is simple: what will YOU create this year?…
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Service Awards at Dallas Center-Grimes
Categories: UncategorizedDallas Center-Grimes CSD celebrated our 2025-26 Service Awards at our all-staff kickoff on Tuesday, August 19. This group has served DCG for a combined 560 years! 560 years of serving our students and families at a world-class level. Dallas Center-Grimes CSD is better because these professionals are here! Please help us celebrate! 30 Years of…
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2025 DCG CSD Bond Referendum
Categories: Uncategorized2025 DCG CSD Bond Referendum On November 4, residents of the Dallas Center-Grimes Community School District will have the opportunity to vote to allow the district to use a general obligation bond to pay for improvements to multiple district facilities without raising property taxes. Click here to learn more. What is the bond referendum plan? –…
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Deputy Ben Spracklin Named DCG SRO – Pending Board Approval
Categories: UncategorizedDallas Center-Grimes CSD is excited to announce that Deputy Ben Spracklin from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office will be joining our team as a School Resource Officer – pending DCG School Board approval. Spracklin will join Deputy Alan Loutzenhiser at DCG and will work primarily out of Oak View with other responsibilities throughout our district.…
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Senior Spotlight – Neela Williamson

Neela Williamson was a member of the DCG High School Class of 2025.
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Celebrating the 2024-25 School Year at Dallas Center-Grimes

Dallas Center-Grimes CSD celebrated the final day of school on Friday, May 30.
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Celebrating DCG’s 2025 Retirees

Dallas Center-Grimes CSD wishes farewell to an outstanding group of retirees in 2025.
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Preschool Celebrations at DCG

It’s been a great year of preschool at Dallas Center-Grimes.
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Celebrating the Dallas Center-Grimes Class of 2025

257 students graduated from Dallas Center-Grimes High School in the Class of 2025.
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Service Learning at Oak View

Students will complete the service learning unit in April.
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DCG High School – 2025 Academy Awards

Dallas Center-Grimes High School hosted the annual Academy Awards ceremony in April.
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Connecting with the Superintendent – Fourth Graders Plan a Meeting with DCG’s Superintendent

Dallas Center-Elementary fourth graders made a proposal to Dr. Blum for playground upgrades.
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“So Much Learning” – DCG Middle School Students Complete Brine Shrimp Project

Fifth grade students are completing a Brine Shrimp Enrichment project as part of the 5th grade science curriculum.
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Senior Spotlight – Ella Christensen

As she is soon going to part ways with DCG, she has certainly left her stamp on the fine arts programs making people laugh, cry, and smile as they listened to her classically trained voice and her orchestra skills as she participated in choir, jazz choir, show choir, individual and large group speech, 4 musicals,…
