Dallas ISD

Dallas ISD is a public school district in Dallas, Texas, and the second-largest in the state. The scale is the defining constraint on any security work here: more than 130,000 students, 228 campuses, and more than 22,000 team members, all operating under a district that the Texas Education Agency rates a B, with nearly 93% of campuses rated A, B, or C. The perimeter is not a single office - it's school sites spread across the city plus central administrative functions, each with distinct systems and users.

Central operations run wide: academic services, instructional technology, professional development, student support, enrollment, transportation, food services, construction, and other district functions. The technical domains named in the district's own structure are instructional technology, education technology, professional development, and central operations support. The program portfolio compounds the surface - legacy neighborhood schools, magnet programs, and career institutes, plus family resources and community engagement work that extends systems beyond staff and students.

The district reports two of the top public high schools in the country and a workforce of more than 22,000. Culture signals point to investment in professional development for staff, culturally responsive and welcoming-school initiatives, and family-centered support services. Anyone joining should expect the reality of K-12 public infrastructure: constrained budgets, a long tail of campus-level technology, and a lot of constituencies - students, families, educators, transportation and food service operations - whose data and services all have to keep running.