The mission of the School District of DeSoto is to prepare all students to be successful citizens and productive workers. Goals 1. To create a challenging, supportive educational environment that results in higher levels of achievement for all students which includes: reading with comprehension, writing clearly, computing accurately, thinking, reasoning, and using information to solve problems. 2. To provide leadership to agencies serving youth, ensuring family support and academic success. 3. To help all employees become educational leaders who provide responsible and innovative leadership to achieve effective instruction for all students. 4. To hold everyone in the school district accountable for contributing to the educational bottom line: student achievement. 5. To create an organizational culture that considers employees to be its most valuable resource and invests in their professional growth and development. 6. To create within the entire community a sense of ownership of the schools and a belief that a quality public school system is an investment in the continued growth and prosperity of DeSoto County.