Mark your calendar.... Invitation to MISD Coffees!

Parents and Midlothian ISD community members are welcome to attend any of the nine coffees hosted by the MISD administration. The purpose is to discuss the recent HB-5 graduation requirements, Midlothian Heritage High School update, and other topics that may arise. There will be time for questions and open discussion with the administrative team.

All coffees will be held from 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. at the following locations:
January 8 - Walnut Grove Middle School
January 10 - Longbranch Elementary
January 21 - LaRue Miller Elementary
February 5 - T.E. Baxter Elementary
February 14 - Frank Seale Middle School Cubs
February 26 - Mt. Peak Elementary
March 5 - J.R. Irvin Elementary
March 21 - Midlothian High School
March 25 - J.A. Vitovsky Elementary

All-City Choir Rescheduled for Dec. 16

The All-City Choir concert has been rescheduled for Monday, December 16 at 12:30pm in the Midlothian High School auditorium. Attendees of the concert will encounter a parking shortage as most spaces at MHS are used on a typical school day.

The best option is to enter the South parking lot behind the arena. Please walk between the arena and the field house and enter at the auditorium entrance. If you would like to drop of those who may need closer access, enter the West parking lot where you may drive up to the auditorium entrance and then go park in the South lot.

Both lots are monitored, so please stop at the guard building when entering the campus.

Parking in front of the school is typically scarce. Please do not park in spaces marked for library use only.

Can't make the concert? Watch it online!

New UIL Realignment Places Midlothian High School in Class 6A

The Texas University Interscholastic League (UIL) released its realignment cutoff numbers on Monday adding a new 6A classification for high schools with 2,100 or more students. Midlothian High School turned in an enrollment of 2,327 students on the UIL “Snapshot Day” in October. This places them in the new 6A class effective in the 2014-2015 school year.
Conference Cutoffs [Download PDF]

• 6A - 2,100 and above
  
• 5A - 1,060 to 2,099
  
• 4A - 465 to 1,059
  
• 3A - 220 to 464
  
• 2A - 105 to 219
  
• 1A - 104.9 and below (formerly six-man football)

Districts will be announced during the normal realignment announcement in February 2014.

Friday Night Football Game Parking Update....

Due to muddy fields next to the Multi-Purpose Stadium, there will limited parking at designated areas (see map below). Overflow parking and bus shuttles will be at Frank Seale Middle School and Midlothian High School parking lots starting at 6:30 p.m. There is also limited overflow parking next to the softball fields.

Midlothian Welcomes Fox Sports Southwest

The DQ Camera crew from FOX Sports Southwest’s High School Scoreboard show is covering the Midlothian Panthers vs. Desoto Eagles football game on Friday, October 18 as the ‘DQ Big Game of the Week’.

In celebration of the big game, the FOX Sports DQ Crew will begin early Friday morning at 7 a.m. to feature the Breakfast of Champions hosted at the Midlothian First Baptist Church. Later, the crew will showcase Panther Football Readers reading to T.E. Baxter Elementary students, which is a game-day partnership among the players and all elementary schools. Cameras will continue rolling at the Midlothian DQ from 4:30-5 p.m. to spotlight and rally the Panther fans. The exclusive, behind-the-scenes segment will run on High School Scoreboard Live at midnight Friday (replayed at 9 a.m. Saturday) and on High School Spotlight at 10:30 p.m. Sunday (replayed at 3 p.m. Monday).

Panther Alley at Midlothian Fall Festival

Come out and experience Midlothian on Saturday, October 19 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the MISD Multi-Purpose Stadium. Over 140 booths (including 18 MISD Panther Alley booths) featuring food, mascots, arts & crafts, promos, fundraiser, entertainment, petting zoo, bounce houses and more. Free admission.

1 - Volleyball Boosters, 2 - WGMS Theater Arts, 3 - WGMS Wildcat Dancers, 4 - Vitovsky Cookbooks, 5 - MHS Engineers, 6 - MHS Baseball, 7 - Communities in Schools, 8 - Junior Panthers, 9 - Rowdy Runners, 10 - Irvin PTV, 25/26- MISD, MHHS, MEF, 27 - MHS Culinary Arts, 28 - Bridges, 29 - MHS Basketball, 30 - MHS Debate, 31 - Open , 32 - MHS Softball, 33 - FSMS Cub Dancers (view map)

Keasler Recognized as Certified Athletic Administrator

Director of Athletics, Steve Keasler

The National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NIAAA) is pleased to announce that Steve Keasler, Director of Athletics at Midlothian ISD, has been recognized by this association as a Certified Athletic Administrator.

To earn this distinction, Keasler has demonstrated the highest level of knowledge and expertise in the field of interscholastic athletic administration. The voluntary certification process included a thorough evaluation of the candidate's educational background, experience and professional contributions, as well as a rigorous, comprehensive written examination.

Keasler is one of an elite group of interscholastic athletic administrators nationwide to attain this level of professionalism.

The NIAAA is a national professional organization consisting of all 50 state athletic administrator associations and more than 7,600 individual members. It is dedicated to promoting the professional growth of high school athletic administrators and preserving the educational nature of interscholastic athletics and the place of these programs in the secondary school curriculum.