Class of 2024

Friday, May 24 at 7:30 p.m.

Graduation Seating Lottery Rules and Procedures

Required: Verify Student's Name on Diploma

Please verify that your student's name is correct on their unofficial transcript because this is how it will appear on their diploma. To verify, login to your parent portal, scroll down to the Student Information section and next to your students photo, click the Links tab. 

Everything you need to know about graduation and end of year activities.

Everything you need to know about Graduation and year-end activities

• August 1: Family letters are due for the Senior Retreat
• August 7: Parking Lot Painting, 7:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
• August 8: Parking Lot Painting, 7:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
• August 7-9: College Guidance Class (9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.) (1:30 - 3:30 p.m.)
• August 14-16: College Guidance Class  (1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.) 
• August 19-20: Senior Retreat and Orientation 
• August 23: First Day of School
• August 26: Student Leadership Training
• August 29: Senior Parent Night (6:00 p.m. / 6:30 p.m. College Guidance) 

• September 4: Labor Day - No school
• September 9: Back to School Dance (Technotica)
• September 13: US Back to School Night
• September 15: Senior yearbook blurb and baby photo due 
• September 21: Senior Rally Day - Theme: State Fair 
• September 22: Interim Check
• September 25: School Holiday - Yom Kippur

• October 2: Senior ads content due date (parents submit photos and message to seniorads@esdallas.org)
• October 9: Fall break
• October 10: HOCO Week Begins 
• October 13: Pep Rally /Homecoming Football Game / HOCO Court 
• October 14: Homecoming Dance
• October 18: US Special Programming Day (Senior Class Photo, Dedman Lecture, Senior Activity)
• October 20: Q1 Ends
• October 23: Fall Choir Concert

• November 1: Conference Day
• November 2-4: Fall SPC
• November 9: Senior Rally Day - Theme: Superheroes 
• November 9-11: US Fall Play
• November 16: US Grandparent’s Day
• November 17: Interim Check
• November 20-24: Thanksgiving break - No school

• December 13: Lessons and Carols, 10:00 a.m.
• December 14-15: Review Days
• December 15: Pre-Exam Breakfast Treat 
• December 18-20: Exams
• December 21: Make-up Exams / Q2 Ends 
• December 22: Christmas break begins

• January 9: Classes resume
• January 15: MLK Day - No School
• January 18: Senior Rally Day - Theme: Winter Wonderland

• February 1: AP Art Show #1
• February 2: Interim Check
• February 3: Winter Dance
• February 7: Special Programing Day 
• February 8-10: Winter SPC
• February 9-12: Winter break - No school
• February 15: 100 Days to Graduation 
• February 22-24: US Winter Musical

• March 8: Senior Day / Q3 Ends
• March 11-15: Spring Break - No school
• March 19: Classes resume - on the home stretch!
• March 21: Film Festival
• March 21: Senior Rally Day - Theme: Luau/Beach
• March 27: AP Art Show #2
• March 29-April 1: Easter Break - No school 

• April 3: Special Programming Day
• April 4: Optional Cap and Gown Portrait Order Deadline
• April 6: Prom 
• April 11-13: ISAS Fine Arts Festival (Austin) 
• April 18-20: US Spring Play
• April 23: Cabaret Night
• April 25: Cum Laude Induction Ceremony
• April 29: Presidential Service Awards
• April 30: Skirts and Shirts (Decoration)

• May 1: Pass It On, 10:00 a.m. 
• May 2-4: Spring SPC
• May 3: No School 
• May 6-17: AP Exams
• May 14: Last Day for Seniors (Rally Day: College Spirit / Field Day), 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
• May 20: Honors Assembly 10:30 a.m.
• May 21-22: Exams
• May 23: Baccalaureate, 5:00 p.m. / Class of '24 Dinner, 6:00 p.m.
• May 24: Graduation, 7:30 p.m.

CADY is our Cap and Gown Portrait provider. Cap and Gown photos were taken at the same time as senior photos. To purchase photos, please click the link below. If you have questions or need assistance ordering photos, please visit the CADY help page.

Orders must be placed by April 4 to receive photos by graduation. 

Order Cap and Gown Portraits

Flash Photography is the official provider of graduation ceremony photos. This includes individual photos of the graduates in their cap and gown with their diploma after walking across the stage on graduation night.

More information on the pre-order process will be provided closer to graduation.