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The new DMPS mobile app is designed to provide up-to-date and helpful information about the school district and all schools right in the palm of your hand. Now you can connect with Wright and every school in Des Moines from anywhere and everywhere. Click the photo to learn more about the app and download to your Apple or Android smartphone.

Students at 19 elementary schools, including Wright Elementary, will adjust their schedule by 10 minutes this fall. It’s a move that will give bus drivers much needed time to get from school to school. Click on the image to read more about how the small time change will improve student safety and save the district hundreds of thousands of dollars.

There has been a change to our school hours for the 2014-2015 school year. Our start and end times will be:  8:45-3:30.  (2:00 dismissal on Wednesdays.) Breakfast will begin at 8:15.  Students will not be allowed in the building prior …

It’s been more than 25 years since DMPS made comprehensive changes to elementary school attendance areas. A lot changes in a quarter of a century, and to better serve students and meet the needs of schools the district has adopted new attendance areas for many elementary schools. Click the headline to learn about the plan and share your opinion.

Things are looking up these days at Wright Elementary School, both figuratively and literally, after the installation of a student-created mural this morning that represents the capstone of “Big Arts Week” at our school. Click the headline to read and see more about our Keith Haring-inspired, student-created art project.

Lincoln Railmen performed for Wright Students during Big Arts Week, October 28th – Nov. 1st.

Wright Drama Club performed for students during Big Arts Week, October 28th – Nov. 1st.

Lincoln Show Choir performed for Wright students during our Big Arts Week, October 28th – Nov. 1st.

  As an Artful Learning School, the arts are celebrated each day in the classroom, but this week Wright made it BIG!  With performances by the Drake Saxophone Quartet, the Lincoln High School Omega Show Choir, the Lincoln …