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Volunteer Opportunities
**Before signing up to volunteer, please complete the WCPSS Volunteer Registration
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Support Our School and Teacher Support Requests
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DDMES 2023-2024 Yearbooks
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Events Calendar | DDMES and DDMES PTA Events
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2024-2025-President Elect: LaWanda Simpkins
Vice President: Lisa Padgett
VP 2: Beth Kelly
Fundraising Chair: Holly Mason
Secretary: Karri Miller
2024-2025-Secretary Elect: Renda Dennie
Treasurer: Cheryl Tran
Advocacy Chair: Brooke Pristell
Membership: Rachel Powell
DDMES School Announcements
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Learn more about our Magnet program
Along with DDMMS, we are the first and only program with the theme "Center for World Languages and Spanish Immersion being implemented school-wide in WCPSS from Kindergarten to Eighth grade.
Do you have a rising Kindergartener?
Learn more about next year's Spanish Immersion Program beginning in Kindergarten.
DDMES Featured In Carolina Parent Magazine
DDMES Spanish Immersion Program Featured on Spectrum News 1
Open your Child’s World at Dillard Drive Magnet Elementary School
The school is Wake County’s first Center for Global Studies and Spanish Immersion program.
CARY, N.C. — Some young students in Wake County are getting an early education in speaking a second language.