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Galveston ISD is proud to announce Delton Kelly as the district’s new Director of Maintenance and Operations.

While Delton is new to the role, he is not new to the island, or GISD for that matter. He is a proud “BOI” (born on island) who has attended GISD from kindergarten through graduation from Ball High School in 1983, and he’s worked for the district full-time for 15 years. 

The highest priority of Galveston ISD’s leadership surrounds one thing and one thing only: student safety.

To increase security measures at Ball High School, GISD will install a weapons detection system at the school’s entrance in the near future.

It may not be a well-known fact that dyslexia can affect up to 20 percent of a student population. It can, and that presents a significant number of students who struggle with dyslexia-related challenges, such as learning to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols, to name a few.

While the season is soon coming to an end for Ball High School’s Tor band, the influence of one band member - senior drum captain Colin Thomas – is sure to echo forward even after the marching stops.

During a time when Galveston ISD is looking ahead to exciting new developments such as an upgraded football stadium, an innovative new high school...

The photography offerings available to students at Galveston ISD’s Ball High School have expanded rapidly recently, growing from one course offered to now four in just a two-year span.

The classes, part of the school’s Media Arts and Digital Technology Community, provide students in grades 9 through 12 with opportunities to gain first-hand digital photography experience in a variety of ways, including photographing district and community events.

A first-of-its-kind unmanned aerial and marine piloting program is gaining momentum for students in Galveston Independent School District’s Career and Technical Education (CTE) program at Ball High School this fall.

Originally taking flight this summer as a prototype internship through a partnership with the National Science Foundation and Texas A&M University...