Inside this small school tucked into Uptown’s State Thomas neighborhood, roughly 170 children — many of them with Down syndrome — learn core subjects as well as skills for independent living.
At the Notre Dame School of Dallas, a classroom is equipped with a Murphy bed so children can practice tucking in sheets and covering pillows. Elsewhere in the building, students read The Very Hungry Caterpillar together or learn about Jackie Robinson.
Therapy, vocational training and small class sizes are hallmarks of a school deeply-rooted in its Catholic mission of serving those with special needs, the poor and the marginalized.
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