📚 Calling all DeSoto students in grades K–12—use your voice to show why attendance matters! Enter our Attendance Matters Video Speech Contest and inspire others to make every school day count! 📅 Contest Dates: September 14–November 6 🎥 Who Can Enter: All students in grades K–12 🏆 Awards: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place gift card awards in EACH grade band—elementary, middle, and high school! Every school day brings opportunities to learn, build friendships, and grow. Share your message about why showing up makes a difference! 🔗 Ready to participate? Visit https://www.desotopsb.com/page/department-of-student-services for contest resources, the entry form, and guidelines. Families, encourage your student to enter and help their message shine. We can’t wait to hear why attendance matters to our students! #AttendanceMatters #EveryDayCounts #GrowingTogether #TheDeSotoDifference

Lady Griffins interested in trying out for our 2026-2027 girls' soccer team tryouts will be Thursday, November 5th, after school. Athletes must have a physical on file to attend tryouts. Sign up in your Google cohort.

🎶❤️🖤 GOOD LUCK TO OUR 20 ALL-STATE HONOR BAND CANDIDATES! 🖤❤️🎶 This Saturday, 20 Mighty Griffin Band students will head to Benton Intermediate School for the First Round of Louisiana All-State Honor Band Auditions! 🎷🎺🥁 They’ll be performing for judged advanced scales, challenging high school-level music, and sight-reading music they’ve never seen before! 🎶 For the past several weeks, these dedicated musicians have also attended Honor Band Help Days, putting in extra time to receive additional instruction, sharpen their skills, and prepare for their auditions! Check out a few pictures of their hard work! 📸❤️ 🌟 What’s at stake? This audition offers TWO exciting opportunities! 🏅 District VIII Honor Band: Students who earn qualifying scores can secure a spot in our district’s top Honor Band, performing in January alongside outstanding middle school musicians from across Northwest Louisiana! 🏆 Louisiana All-State Honor Band: Students who score high enough will advance to the SECOND round of auditions, where they’ll compete for the opportunity to perform in New Orleans this January with some of the very best middle school musicians in the entire state! ❤️ We are already SO PROUD of these 20 students! Preparing for an audition of this caliber takes tremendous dedication, discipline, courage, and countless hours of practice. Please join us in wishing our Mighty Griffins the BEST OF LUCK this Saturday! No matter the results, you are already representing North DeSoto Middle School with excellence, and we are cheering you on every step of the way! 🙌🏻🎶 GO GRIFFINS! ❤️🖤🎵 #MightyGriffinBand #NDMSBand #GriffinPride #AllStateHonorBand #MusicEducation

NDMS Griffins may wear a spirit shirt with uniform bottoms tomorrow, Friday, October 23.

Save the date, Middle Griffins! Our NDMS Thanksgiving feast will be Thursday, November 12th. Information on pre-ordering lunches coming next week.

Congratulations, 6th grade Griffins!! You won the attendance challenge this week and have earned the privilege of wearing Crocs, slides, and Birks tomorrow, Friday, October 23. Way to go!! #everydaycounts #attendancematters #sixthgradeshowedupbigthisweek

Shout out to NDMS Griffin, Tristan, who led FCA yesterday morning. His message was encouraging his fellow Griffins to be mindful of others going through hard times or facing obstacles to be the encouragement or support they need. He shared that Griffins should take their problems to God and ask Him for help. He reminded our Griffins that as long as they use the resources that He gives them, they can get through the day. Great job, Tristan! #GriffinsLead #GriffinsServe #NDMSFCA

What day is it Griffins? IT'S 💙❤️🏈GAME DAY🏈❤️💙!! Our Middle Griffins travel to Natchitoches today to take on the Indians of NJHS today. Please help us wish them our Griffins GOOD LUCK!

NDMS will be celebrating Red Ribbon Week Monday, October 26 - Friday, October 30. This year's national theme is "Make a Difference. Be a Hero. Stay Drug Free." Middle Griffins are allowed to dress according to the themes shared but please be mindful of DPSB/NDMS dress code. Just a reminder that athletic shorts and hats are not allowed on any of our dress days. Tuesday's Follow Your Dreams - Don't Do Drugs! wear pajamas day, pajamas must be school appropriate, no shorts or leggings allowed. Also, jeans should be blue and not have rips, holes, or the appearance of rips, holes, tears, or frays.

Homecoming 2026 stop in Stonewall…OUR MIDDLE GRIFFINS HAD NO PROBLEM GETTING IN A GRIFFIN STATE OF MIND! #HOCO2026 #UnforgettableRoadtripThroughLouisiana #GriffinFamily #StonewallStopFive

Our NDMS adapted PE students enjoyed day four in The Arc Caddo-Bossier’s GREAT Results riding program. GREAT is a therapeutic horseback riding program offering services to students with disabilities through certified instructors and trained volunteers. #GrowingTogether

NDMS is happy and please to announce our 26-27 Student of the Year is Bryleigh! She exudes our core values of learning, leading, and serving. Please join us in congratulating her! Way to go, Bryleigh!

Tomorrow’s HoCo stop is in STONEWALL…GET IN A GRIFFIN STATE OF MIND! Jeans should be blue, free from holes, rips, or the appearance of holes/rips/tears. Athletic shorts and hats are not allowed. #HOCO2026 #UnforgettableRoadtripThroughLouisiana #GriffinFamily #StonewallStopFive

8th grade students in RobinsonELA practicing strategy to answer multiple choice questions and explaining their thinking to classmates! #growingtogether #GriffinsLeadGriffins #NDMSGriffinsAreAWESOME

Griffin family, friends, and fans...Tickets to tonight's NDMS home volleyball game are digital exclusively. No cash accepted at the door. #GriffinPride #GriffinStrong #GriffinFamily

Homecoming 2026 stop in Monroe…happy, happy, happy in camp! Our Griffins successfully pulled off a visit to the Duck Commander! #HOCO2026 #UnforgettableRoadtripThroughLouisiana #GriffinFamily #MonroeStopFour

Students who turned in all of their MakeMusic assignments with at least a 90% or better got to celebrate their progress with games, dancing, musical chairs, Oreos, cup stacking, pizza, snacks, cookies, and just good fun together as a band. Great job keeping up with your assignments! We are proud of you! Beginning and advanced band Griffins can’t wait to celebrate again!

NDMS is excited to join and celebrate HOCO on Friday! Attendance still matters and we need students back in class after the parade! ❤️💙

6th grade science students built a closed circuit and an electromagnet to explore how electrical energy transfers and transforms into light, heat, and magnetic energy. Way to go, Middle Griffins! #LearningAndGrowingTogether #ScienceIsFun