Del Rio High School seniors scheduled for campus Senior Walk Monday
Seniors from Del Rio High School were set to visit Cardwell Head Start at 12:30 p.m. and all elementary campuses at 1:45 p.m. as graduation week began.
Del Rio High School seniors were scheduled to make one of the school year’s last public appearances Monday, with the Senior Walk set for 12:30 p.m. at Cardwell Head Start and 1:45 p.m. at all elementary campuses across San Felipe Del Rio Consolidated Independent School District.
The walk placed the Class of 2026 back in front of the younger students who will follow them through the district, turning a simple campus visit into a visible milestone for families in Del Rio and Val Verde County. With seniors already reaching the final stretch of their school careers, the event marked the kind of district-wide sendoff that connects the high school with the elementary campuses it feeds.
The timing fit squarely into graduation week. SFDRCISD’s 2025-2026 academic calendar listed May 22, 2026, as the last day for seniors and the end of the 5th six weeks. The same calendar showed May 26 as the start of the 6th six weeks and, if needed, a make-up day. That schedule helped explain why senior recognition events were clustered at the end of May instead of spread farther apart.
Another major class event followed the walk quickly. The Del Rio High School Class of 2026 Awards Ceremony was scheduled for Wednesday, May 27, at 6:30 p.m. in Carl Guys Gym. The ceremony flyer said awards would go to DRHS Top 20 students, ECHS Top 8 students, students with perfect attendance, honor roll students and scholarship recipients, giving the district another public moment to recognize academic achievement before graduation season moved forward.
Del Rio High School is a large campus, with 2,392 students, 94.1% of them Hispanic and 68% classified as economically disadvantaged, according to Texas Tribune Schools Explorer. In that setting, school rituals like Senior Walk carry added weight because they are not just symbolic. They are a shared district moment in which younger students, teachers and families can see seniors reaching the end of a system that serves much of the city.
That broader school culture has deep roots. San Felipe Independent School District was formally established in 1929, following a community-led effort by Mexican American residents of the San Felipe barrio to create their own district. Nearly a century later, the district’s senior traditions still reflect that local history, using campus events to mark achievement, build continuity between schools and bring the community together around the Class of 2026.
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