Mission:

The mission of the Douglas County School System is to provide a quality education for all students in a safe, supportive environment.

Vision:

Our vision is to build a community of lifelong learners that become responsible individuals, independent thinkers, and productive citizens.

Goals:

 - To improve community engagement and involvement in district initiatives and decision making. 

 - To enhance and improve school district communication strategies and practices. 

 - To provide a challenging, comprehensive instructional and curricular program for all learners.

Beliefs:

We believe that we must...

 - Understand how children and adults learn and continue learning.

 - Build communities of lifelong learners.

 - Cultivate the leadership potential of every employee, student, and parent in our school system.

 - Be creative, energetic visionaries, who respond quickly to diverse and evolving issues.

 - Meet the needs of our stakeholders (students, parents, employees and community).

 - Maintain efficient and effective administrative processes for instruction, operations, human resources and sound fiscal management.