Thank you to Fox Nutrition and these local businesses for sponsoring tea drops to all of our campuses this week. We love the support our businesses give us and our teachers love getting treats!
We would like to bring your attention to an updated section of our website. Community Resources has been added to provide a list of local agencies that provide support in various ways.
These resources can be found on our website at www.caddomillsisd.org .
Click on "Menu".
Go to "Parent Resources".
Click on "Community Resources".
The big Homecoming game is Friday at 7:00 (not 7:30). Be loud, be proud, and get there early! We will have overflow parking at Lee and MS with shuttles running before the game to the stadium.
We also want to remind you that it would be best to have your tickets purchased ahead of time and printed off (or take a screenshot) as cellular service at the stadium can be suspect. Go Foxes!
Join us for the Community-Wide Homecoming Pep Rally! Wear your green!!
Save the date and enjoy dinner at Chipotle in Greenville on Tuesday, October 10th from 5-9 pm. Beta Club will receive a portion of the sales during this time.
You can even order on their app or online and pick it up! Just make sure you use the promotion code GTXBV2C when you check out and order during the 5-9 p.m. time frame.
If you dine in, simply show them this flyer when you order!
As always, thank you for supporting the CMHS Beta Club students on their quest to put Caddo Mills on the map at State and National Conventions.
Region 10 is offering a FREE expo to families of students with disabilities.
Connecting the Dots Expos are a series of informational fairs for students with disabilities, their caregivers, and educators as well as vendors who provide services.
The purpose of the fair is to provide information about community-based resources, services, and supports. The fair will offer information and resources available to families such as medical and mental health services, educational support, employment training and support, post-secondary planning, recreational activities, support groups, information on guardianship and supported decision-making, and more.
The day is structured for attendees to have informal access to the variety of vendors participating, as well as attending structured content breakout sessions. Sponsoring districts across the eight-county area of Region 10 ESC in collaboration with the ESC staff provides this free fair in order to connect and support our communities.
No registration is required for students and families.
Congratulations to our spirit wear winners for Tropical Day! Mrs. McAdoo and Makenna Davis received Twilight Coffee gift cards from RAD Dance Academy and Cotton Candy cups from Nessa's Sugarland!
Caddo Mills ISD is excited to invite all parents to our district-wide Parent Night on September 26 at Caddo Mills Middle School. You will have the opportunity to attend various breakout sessions to best fit your needs and questions. We hope you will reserve the evening to join us!
Caddo Mills High School senior Jackson Summers poses in front of the mural he designed on Main Street on the side of Mona Lisa Pizza. The mural was unveiled on Monday.
On hand for the Monday unveiling of a new mural meant to represent the town of Caddo Mills were members of the Economic Development Corp. team, the artist and designer Jackson Summers, his teacher Ashley Gandy, Caddo Mills High School football coach and athletic director Kodi Crane and Caddo Mills superintendent Luke Allison and the two women responsible for painting the mural, Carmen Slagle and Emily Angel Jacks.
Caddo Mills High School senior Jackson Summers talks about the mural he designed at the unveiling on Monday. Members of the Caddo Mills economic development team helped unveil the new mural. The mural – titled HERE – was painted by Caddo Mills High School senior Jackson Summers and was done on the wall outside Mona Lisa Pizza, located at 2315 Main St.
Jackson’s art teacher at the high school, Ashley Gandy was contacted about giving her students the opportunity to submit a design idea for a mural and immediately, one name came to mind.
“I knew when I met this young man, Jackson Summers, as a sophomore, he was far more talented beyond his years,” Gandy said. “He and I discussed some design decisions and he drew it up. No pencil sketches, just straight to paper with a pen and a fine-tip Sharpie. He took exactly the ideas that we discussed and put them on paper, just like I knew he could.” Gandy added, “Now as a senior, he’s leaving his mark here in his hometown.”
While Jackson designed the mural artwork, the task of taking his ideas and putting them on a wall was taken by Carmen Slagle and Emily Angel Jacks. The pair put in 80 hours of work – sometimes during the very hot summer days and other times in the middle of the night – getting the job of bringing Jackson’s vision to life completed in time for the unveiling on Monday.
Even the meaning behind the title took some creativity on Summers’ part. He states:
• The H reflects Ed Locker Stadium. Ed Locker was the football announcer for Caddo Mills for many years. When he passed away, the stadium was dedicated in his name;
• The E reflects the old water tower that was one of the original towers built in Caddo Mills. It stood as a landmark for Caddo Mills for many years;
• The R reflects the original Caddo Mills fox logo;
• And the second E reflects the old cotton mill that still stands in the town. Back in the turn of the century, the community was known for cotton farming.
“My family were original settlers in Caddo Mills and they, too, were cotton farmers in a community known as Hendricks,” Summers added.
Article courtesy of the Greenville Herald Banner
Caddo Mills ISD continues district games in volleyball and tennis this evening! If you have time, come out and cheer for our students! Let's go Foxes!
Huge THANKS to Fiestas and The Cummons Family. They wanted to spoil our kiddos who were injured Friday and they now have some gift cards for yummy meals. Sometimes the mental healing of not being on the field with your teammates is harder than the physical healing. So it’s ok to spoil them a little. Love our businesses and community!
Thanks to Petals and Vine Flower Shop for bringing us some awesome green flowers in support of our Foxes today! The love our community has shown since Friday night is incredible, but not surprising. It's a GREAT DAY to be a FOX!
Thanks to our student section sponsors Friday night! They gave out some really cool gifts. Century 21 Patterson Agency Lance and Cody Banks, RAD Dance Academy, and State Farm Insurance Eddie Hall made sure the students had fun. Lori Howell with The Hometown Group - All City Real Estate sponsored some meals for a few lucky spectators. Don't miss out on the next home game student section. We love our local businesses!
Who is no longer using their artificial Christmas tree? We need several for our upcoming theatre production at the high school. Don't trash them, donate them. Please email jlandry@caddomillsisd.org if you have one.
Thanks Angel Valentin and the Tarpley Agency for the Tea Drop at the middle school Friday!
As our team, players, and families heal, continue showing your love by wearing green on Tuesday, September 5!
Fox Squad 2023! Thanks Canyon Ridge for making these cute shirts.
🏈🦊 Friday night football at Ed Locker Stadium is finally here! Tonight, we play the Bullard Panthers!
If you cannot attend the game, we have you covered! The game can be watched on the CM Fox Athletic App or on YouTube!
🦊 Pregame 7:00pm
🦊 Kickoff 7:30pm
https://www.cmfoxathletics.com/broadcasts
https://www.youtube.com/@caddomillsABC
Let's Go Foxes!
Thanks to Fiestas for surprising our transportation department with some great food last week!
The Caddo Mills ISD Board of Trustees approved a 19-cent tax rate decrease at the August 21 board meeting. School board members are tasked with adopting a budget and tax rate each year. The adopted Maintenance and Operation Rate went down 19 cents to $.7575 and the Interest and Sinking Rate remained unchanged at $.50 for a total tax rate of $1.2575 per $100 valuation.
Maintenance and Operations funds are used for day-to-day operations of the schools with the majority going to staff salaries. Interest and Sinking funds can only be used to pay for long-term debt approved by CMISD taxpayers.
CMISD Board Members take adopting the budget and tax rate very seriously and they know personally what property values have done in CMISD over the past 10 years. While values have gone up, tax rates have gone from $1.54 in 2013 to $1.2575 in 2023. School districts do not benefit from growing local property values on the M&O side of the budget. As local property values grow, the share of state funding decreases.
In June, the state legislature passed SB2 and it did provide local tax relief. During the May 2023 Bond process, tax rates were expected to be $1.44 per 100 valuation. Our school district is excited to be able to lower the tax rate while still being able to keep up with our growing student population.