Classes Cancelled Nov. 16-20
All Students Online Nov. 30-Dec. 4

For more detailed information on the number of positive COVID-19 cases in the district, click the link below.
Venus ISD’s goal is to provide our students with the highest quality education possible.  Due to the most recent faculty and staff shortages, our campuses are facing significant challenges effectively covering classes.  While we have more subs than ever before, it is impossible to keep pace with the demand.  These shortages are due to quarantines related to COVID-19, as well as non-COVID illnesses.  This has made achieving our goal quite a challenge.  It has been a daily struggle to cover classes, as our need for substitute teachers greatly outpaces their availability.

For these reasons, it is in the best interest of our students to not hold classes the week beginning Monday, November 16, 2020.  This will be non-school days for students and work days for staff members.  Also, beginning Monday November 30, we will transition all students to Connected (online) Learning for Nov 30 to Dec 4th.  These measures allow us to provide the best quality of instruction possible until our staff members are able to return to campus. It also helps to ensure that students who may have traveled over Thanksgiving are COVID-free before they come back on December 7. 
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If your family needs a WiFi Hotspot, email kathryn.roberts@venusisd.net to arrange an appointment to pick one up.  We will send out additional details as they become available. Please send all questions to covid19@venusisd.net

Child Nutrition: Nov. 30-Dec.4

The Child Nutrition Department will serve lunch while students are learning online.  Lunches can be picked up from Venus High School from 10:15-10:45 AM each day that school is in session.  If you plan on picking up meals for your students, please email the Director of Child Nutrition, Mrs. McCormick, (tina.mccormick@venusisd.net) to let her know so we will have enough meals prepared.

Procedures for Discontinuing Online Learning

Venus ISD recognizes that the most effective learning environment for students is in a face-to-face classroom setting.  Because of this, many online students have fallen behind, and some are experiencing attendance issues. This is not restricted to Venus ISD, as schools across the state and nation are experiencing the same. Therefore, beginning Wednesday, January 6, 2021, Venus ISD will discontinue online learning for all students except for those who wish to remain online, and demonstrate one of the following: 
  • A professionally documented medical concern, 
  • a need to temporarily quarantine, or
  • academic success and good attendance online as evidenced by most recently completed six weeks.  
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How to qualify for one of these exceptions:
Documented Medical Concerns:
If your child has a medical condition that places them in undue risk, please acquire a doctor’s signature on this form and return the document to your campus office by 4:00 p.m. December 11, 2020. 


Quarantine:
If your child needs to be quarantined due to a positive test, or close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19, you will be contacted. 


Demonstrated Academic Success and Good Attendance:
If, by most recently completed six weeks, your child has demonstrated academic success by passing all core classes and has no more than 2 unexcused absences for this time period, you have the option to return to on-campus learning or remain online.  


Appeals:
Appeals can be made on this form, and will be evaluated by the committee; determination will be handled individually.  If an appeal is received for a student with a disability with an IEP or 504 plan, the ARD or 504 committee will convene to review student needs.  Appeals must be sent to the campus principal by December 11, 2020.
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Other Considerations
All students currently enrolled in on-campus learning will remain on-campus learners.
All students new to VISD will enroll as on-campus learners unless there are documented medical concerns regardless of placements in previous districts.

On-Campus Learning

We are working overtime to ensure that we can provide the safest learning environment possible for our students and staff members.  If your child is enrolled in On-Campus Learning, please ensure that they are prepared to adhere to their campus's face-covering, distancing, and sanitization requirements. 

If you have questions about the measure we are taking to keep our students and staff members safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, please review our COVID-19 Prevention, Mitigation, and Response Plan at the link below.

Connected Learning

If your child is enrolled in Connected Learning, they should be actively progressing on academic work daily.  Be sure to check out the Parent Training resource at the link below.
If your child is unable to log into their school-issued device or various learning platforms, contact your child's campus office.  If your child is experiencing issues with school-issued technology devices, click the link below to learn how to get tech support.

Need to tell us something?

The Venus ISD Tip Line is a great way to share kudos, concerns, or other feedback with district administrators.  You can share anonymously,  or, if you choose to share your name and contact information, we can begin a dialogue with you about your issue.

Venus ISD Earns $300,000 Grant!

We are proud to announce our selection as a winner in the HIGHLY competitive Raising Blended Learners Grant competition, provided through the Raise Your Hand Texas Foundation!  Through the exclusive grant, we will take student-focused instruction to the next level, and become a demonstration district to help other schools improve their instructional practices.  Click the link below for more details!

Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer

Families who qualify for free or reduced price school meals may also qualify for Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer.  Click the link below for details.

Great things are happening at VISD

District News

Live Streaming

Click the link below to view live streams of our events.  We live stream a variety of activities, including school board meetings, campus assemblies, graduation, and even sporting events.  If the event is being live streamed, the stream will be accessible via the link below.
Note: If you are accessing the live stream from an iPhone, long press on the link and select "Open in New Tab" to ensure the link opens properly. It will not open in the YouTube App.

District Calendar
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Venus ISD serves 2033 students and is located 25 miles south of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Once a rural farming area, Venus has grown into a small suburban community. The Venus Independent School District has been committed to providing excellence in education for its students since it was founded in 1914.
Venus ISD: 100 Student Dr Venus, TX 76084  Phone: 972-366-3448  Fax: 972-232-2141
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