ROYSE CITY – Royse City ISD Superintendent Randy Hancock announced this week that he will retire from his position this June. He informed school board members at their meeting Monday night. Tuesday morning he told staff members, and then he made a public announcement at the Royse City Chamber of Commerce luncheon the same day. [...]

ROCKWALL – Local high school athletes will be back in action this week practicing for the 2011-12 volleyball, tennis and football seasons. Volleyball: Girls’ volleyball practices began yesterday at Rockwall, Heath and Royse City high schools. Scrimmages will begin Aug. 5 for Rockwall at Arlington Martin and Aug. 6 at Plano West at times to [...]

(Royse City Herald Banner) Taxpayers in the Royse City Independent School District over the age of 65 will soon see their tax bill drop a bit as a result of a recent vote by the local school board. By a unanimous vote, the Royse City ISD chose to increase the homestead exemption for taxpayers over [...]

By J.J. Smith. Due to inclement weather, all Rockwall, Royse City and Garland ISD schools are closed today and all after-school activities have been either cancelled or postponed. Many government offices have also either been closed or will open late. All Rockwall County offices will  be closed all day. City of Rockwall offices will not [...]

By J.J. Smith. Most and perhaps none of Rockwall County’s public and private schools will be showing President Obama’s controversial live speech to school children in their classes Tuesday morning at 11 a.m (Central Time). Rockwall ISD will provide ”optional access” at a designated location on each campus. Royse City ISD and Heritage Christian Academy (HCA)will not. The Fulton School’s administrators were meeting [...]

Royse City ISD will proceed with its upcoming sports banquet, band concert and PTO meetings as scheduled, despite the Swine flu outbreak, since the Texas UIL has not cancelled school events within school districts. The announcement was made yesterday by RCISD Superintendent Randy Hancock, in which he also clarified that no students will be taken outside of RCISD for any [...]

At the April 13 meeting of the Royse City Independent School District’s Board of Trustees, it was reported that the new intermediate school on Blackland Road is nearing completion — at least structurally. Click here to read this complete Royse City Herald Banner story.