When the new H.S. Thompson campus opens this fall in the Bonton neighborhood of South Dallas, stories of the school will be told by students, thanks to a $50,000 grant that designates Thompson as one of Dallas ISD’s “innovation” schools.
Thompson is one of 21 schools in Dallas ISD that received a $50,000 grant for the 2021-2022 school year as part of a Dallas ISD Office of Transformation and Innovation grant program. The funds are aimed at helping increase school choice by allowing neighborhood schools to implement programming that will support innovation in areas including leadership, new technology, personal learning, theater arts, international baccalaureate, STEM and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math).
Thompson is currently under construction at its former site on Bexar Street and Bethurum Avenue. It will open in fall 2021 and absorb kindergarten…
