It's that time of year again! Time to purchase your Sands Mustangs 2020 yearbook. You can get ahead of the crowd and purchase online here:
https://www.balfour.com/student-info?smi=92794
Or you can bring $33.00 to Mrs. Kennedy. Yearbooks will be delivered in August, 2020
Sands Parents, we are excited to announce that Parent Portal will be receiving an upgrade to Ascender Parent Portal. We will begin Online registration next year and it will be MANDATORY for the primary parent (s)/ guardian to have an ASCENDER Parent Portal Account. Please set this up before May 2020 so that we can ensure that everyone's account is running properly. Please use an email that you check regularly for this process. One account can be used for all of the students listed. Ascender Parent Portal will allow you to see your student's absences, tardies, grades, set alerts for grades, absences and more; plus "new" this year is Progress reports and Report cards and NEXT YEAR ONLINE REGISTRATION. Ascender will also allow the school to publish messages on the login page and links that will help keep you informed of school activities. Parents that have already have an active Portal Account nothing will change for you except look of the Login Page and the link you will need. The current username and password will remain the same for your student(s) . Here is how you sign up: 1. Go to the Sands CISD website; www.sands.esc17.net. 2. Go to the Parent Section of the Website and click on Parent Portal. 3. Go to setting up a new account 4. Use the Portal ID included in this letter to sign up all you students in one user name account.
You can read the Parent Portal guide here:
2019-20 Parent Guide for Ascender Parent Portal.pdf
Parents who already have a login can go here and check out the new updates:
http://txsuite.esc17.net/tc058909/
Please contact Mrs. Henderson with any questions.
Sports fans, if you are unable to make it to a Mustang basketball or football game, listen to the game online! Go to
http://mixlr.com/mustang-nation-radio/, or
http://texassportsbroadcasting.com/ to listen live!
Get more information on germblast here:
http://www.germblast.com
SANDS.pdf
Sands CISD received an “A” rating on the 2018 Accountability System administered by the state. It also met 7 out of the 7 distinctions. You can refer to the attached Report card link to take a closer look at the scores. The efforts of our students and staff were outstanding and we certainly will strive to continue this excellence moving forward.
Sands CISD 2018 Accountability Report Card.pdf