Daffron Elementary School

Achievements

Texas Exemplary school award; Plano ISD Education Foundation Grants to Educators winners; district Excellence in Teaching award; Diversity Leadership award for PTA by Plano ISD Ethnic Committee and Outstanding Composting award from the City of Plano.

Campus Programs

Plano Academic Creative Education (PACE) for identified gifted and talented students; Marathon Kids; English for Speakers of other Languages (ESL); Spanish bilingual program (kindergarten - fifth grade); Deputy Store (intrinsic incentives); fifth-grade choir; Experience the Awareness; Childsafe; science fair; PASAR after-school childcare; PTA after school programs; Student Leaders; mentoring program; Student Council; Word Masters; job club; LEGO club; Math Olympiad; and Girls STEAM club.

Parent Involvement Opportunities

Daffron PTA room parent; classroom helper; office assistant; reading or math tutors; friends of the library; Silent Auction; field day; publishing center; Deputy Store; book fair; Jog-a-thon; Reflections; cultural arts program; School-Based Improvement Committee (SBIC)

Community/Business Partnerships

A Campbell's Labels for Education; Chick-fil-A; General Mills Box Tops for Education; Kroger; North Dallas Bank; PAL program (Jasper High School & Plano West Senior High School); Target and Tom Thumb.

History of Daffron

John Marshall Daffron (1863-1928) was born in Kentucky and named after the United States Chief Justice, John Marshall. He moved to Murphy, Texas, when he was 21 and married Maude Salmon. He was a farmer known for raising prize-winning bronze turkeys which he shipped across the Southwest. John Daffron valued education. In the evenings, the Daffron family would gather around the fireplace where John would listen to his children recite their school lessons. He also saw that his eleven children had opportunities for training in elocution, dance, drawing and music. He also served as a school trustee at the original Barksdale School.

Daffron Elementary opened in 1990 (cost $3.7 million).