Garden Work Party Highlights

Our D-E Green Upper School student club and the Parents’ Association Garden Project Volunteer…

LS Last Assembly Celebrates Pride Month & Honors Departing Faculty/Staff

During the final Lower School (LS) Assembly of the school year, we celebrated Pride Month and…

Girls Basketball Camp, July 20-23, 2026 & Directed by Coach Aaron Gratch

D-E Athletics invites girl basketball players currently in Grades 4-7 to their Summer Girls…

String Society 2026; Grand Finale Concert on Friday, June 26

This past week D-E enthusiastically welcomed a group of highly exceptional young musicians for…

7th Grade “Make It Better” Presentations

How can we build a better world? This was the question posed to 7th graders tasked with selecting…

Third Graders Discover the Joy of Playing the Ukulele

Little hands, big sounds! For one of their final units in Ms. Fiona Crawford’s 3rd Grade Music…

D-E Performing Arts Honored With Theatre Awards and Nominations

Bravo! Out of 107 participating plays, D-E Performing Arts’ production of A MONSTER CALLS earlier…

Class of 2030: 8th Grade Moving Up Ceremony Highlights

The Class of 2030 is moving on up! During a ceremony in Schenck Auditorium, 93 8th graders…

Class of 2033: 5th Grade Moving Up Ceremony Highlights

D-E’s 5th Grade Moving Up Ceremony for the Class of 2033 was significant not only because it…

MS Students Engage in the Art of Poetry

The Middle School is alive with the sound of poetry! The spring edition of Poetry Connections…

Spotlight on D-E Departments

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Features

D-E Students Level Up in National Chess Championships

by Bart Klemensowski

Checkmate! The D-E 360° ACE (AfterCare & Enrichment) Chess Team had two players compete in the U.S. Chess Federation’s 2024 National K-12 Grade Championships in National Harbor, Maryland, from Dec. 6-8. Third grader Adam Y. ’34 and 11th grader Anna Radchenko ’26…

US Robotics Teams Are Positioned for State Competition

by Valerie Berrios

D-E’s Upper School Robotics, which has made a name for itself in the student robotics circuit, annually takes part in the FIRST Tech Challenge, an international robotics competition for high school students in which teams go head-to-head to design, build, program, and…

Sixth-Graders Learn How Food Shapes Their Identity

by Valerie Berrios

How are we what we eat? This is the guiding question our sixth graders were asked to consider on Tuesday, Jan. 7, as a new unit was kicked off in their MESH subjects (that is, Math, English, Science, and History). This first lesson centered around “how food shapes…

D-E Embraces the Season of Giving

by Valerie Berrios

’Tis the season! D-E’s students are fulfilling the school’s core value of community with pre-winter-break donations to families in need. In the Lower School, third graders have been embracing their program tradition, “Third Graders Making a Difference” (TGMD), for…

An Overview: A Fireside Chat With D-E’s Next Head of School, Dr. James Calleroz White

by Valerie Berrios

D-E recently introduced our next Head of School, Dr. James Calleroz White (aka Dr. CW), who officially begins his tenure on July 1, 2025, by way of a “Fireside Chat” held during Dr. CW’s visit to our campus in late November. Dr. CW, who holds a Doctorate in…

Swartley Gallery Presents: Alumna Artist Sophia Seriale ’22

by Valerie Berrios

D-E welcomed back Sophia Seriale ’22, a “D-E lifer,” as the Swartley Gallery’s featured alumna artist, with a meet-the-artist reception on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. Her exhibit, “Until Now,” includes sketches she created as an Upper School student and in her art classes…