DuQuoin CUSD #300

Du Quoin Elementary families, We hope this message finds you well and full of energy from a great week with family and busy outdoors activities. Monday, March 15th marks the re...

Du Quoin Elementary families, Believe it or not, we do finish reading Rump this week. Have you enjoyed our One School, One Book selection this year? The schedule continues wi...

Dear DES Families, Next week begins our American Heart Association’s Kids Heart Challenge! By participating in the Kids Heart Challenge, your child will raise funds to help ki...

Good afternoon DES families, I hope and trust this message finds you and your family well. I know this has been tough, so we appreciate all you and our students are doing to me...

Du Quoin Elementary School families, With the District 300 announcement concerning our school days switching to Remote Learning, we will follow the Friday Remote Learning sche...

DES Families and Community, I hope this news message find you well and safe. The past few days of inclement weather have brought snow, sleet and, as I write this, freezing rain ...

Du Quoin Elementary Parents and Guardians, Are you enjoying Rump: The (Fairly) True Tale of Rumpelstiltskin? It's been great hearing students talking about the characters and ...

Du Quoin Elementary Parents and Families, We hope this message finds you having a good week! I just happed to see some of our Kindergarten students taking advantage of the snow...

Du Quoin Elementary School parents and guardians, Monday, Jan. 18, we do not have school in observance of Martin Luther King's birthday. Did you know, MLK Day is the only fede...

Du Quoin Elementary Families, Welcome to the New Year and second semester of the school year! What a ride we have had during the past year. We are looking forward to, like you, t...

Du Quoin Elementary School Families, On behalf of the entire faculty and staff, I hope that you are enjoying a wonder-filled and relaxing holiday break! Last fall, we had man...

Du Quoin Elementary Families, Our holiday themed days have brought some much needed joy to everyone. Thank you to those who were able to participate. We do finish the themes with...

DES Families, We hope this message finds you well. Many students have participated in the holiday spirit themes this week and you can feel the "jingle" in the air. We will con...

Hello Du Quoin Elementary families, It has been a buzz all week, knowing that our building will once again be filled with the energy and excitement of our students returning. ...

Lifetouch has provided a special limited-time offer to ensure each family at our school gets the opportunity to preserve this school years’ memories. To order school pictures v...

DES Families, Thank you to all of you who have reached out to let your teachers and all our support staff know how important they are in the educational process for your studen...

DES Families, We invite you to join us in our daily theme days for American Education Week on Nov. 16 - Nov. 20. Monday, Nov. 16 - We will kickoff the week by composing wr...

DES Parents and Families: We are working hard to keep kids reading and raise critical funds for our school with our Scholastic Online Book Fair from November 16 - November 29, 20...

DES Families Next week will complete our return to school plan with all 4th graders returning in person 4 days a week. As a reminder we do have in person attendance this Friday, ...

DES Families, Next week marks the return of all our 3rd grade students in our "return to learn in person" plans. So far the plan is going well and we are looking forward to the r...