Don Carter Elementary School

📣 Carter Elementary Families 📣

Don’t forget to complete your child’s 2026-2027 Beginning of Year Transportation Form in Skyward! 🚌

✅ This form is REQUIRED for ALL students, even if your child will NOT ride the bus.

Right now, our campus is only at 50% completion. Let’s work together to get to 100%! 💙

📅 Important Deadlines:
• Submit by August 2 for your student to receive bus transportation on the FIRST day of school.
• Forms submitted August 3-21 will begin bus service on August 24.
• If no form is submitted by August 2, transportation cannot be provided until August 24.

The form only takes a few minutes to complete and can be found in your Parent Skyward Account. Please log in and complete it as soon as possible!

Get ready for the Lamar CISD Summer Reading Program! Students can log their reading into to Beanstack! Mrs. Garrette will be giving out MODS free Kids meal when we return in August to students that earn at least 8 badges for June, and 8 badges for July.

Thanks Dads on Duty for helping out this year!

Enrollment for the 2026–2027 school year is now open! 📚✨
Follow these steps to complete your student’s enrollment and help us get ready for another amazing year. We can’t wait to welcome our students back to campus!

Second grade celebrated their growth today as measured by the End-of-Year MAP assessment! 🎉

Students who demonstrated growth in both reading and math earned special passes. Students who met their goal in both reading and math had the fun opportunity to “tattoo” their teacher as a reward for their hard work and achievement.
Students who reached Masters level in both reading and math earned an even bigger celebration—they got to surprise Mrs. Sarah L. Hightower with silly string! 🎊
We are incredibly proud of all of our students for their dedication, progress, and accomplishments this year!

Our students had the opportunity to design and build their own robots using gears and a variety of components, then bring their creations to life by controlling them with remote controls. It was truly rewarding to observe the wide range of unique designs and to witness their creativity and problem-solving skills in action.

Today, we had the honor of welcoming back Carter’s very first class of former 5th graders as they celebrate their high school graduation!

These seniors were part of Carter’s very first year open, walking our halls as 5th graders in 2018–2019. Now, they are preparing to walk across the graduation stage — a milestone that is so special for our Carter family. 💙💚

Seeing our former Coyotes return was a full-circle moment and a reminder of how much they have grown since their days at Carter. We are so proud of the Class of 2026 and cannot wait to see all they accomplish in the future! ✨

Once a Coyote, always a Coyote! 🐾🎓