WE’RE IN OAK CLIFF BECAUSE OAK CLIFF IS IN US.

For decades now, Dave PerryMiller Real Estate agents have not only represented buyers and sellers seeking to deepen their family’s Oak Cliff roots, but have put down roots here as well.

grade, she knew she wanted to become a teacher.

The biggest challenge, she says, is persuading students that they can go to college.

“All it takes is your education to move forward, so it’s convincing them and making them believers that anything can happen if you try and you do your best,” Garcia says.

Reagan students perform well on the STAAR test, receiving the highest rank, “met standard,” in 2015. And the school scores “exemplary” across all other accountability ratings. Principal Ramirez is especially proud of the school’s “exemplary” rating for parental involvement, a tricky feat considering the school’s demographics. Many Reagan parents are overworked and undereducated, but they are dedicated to children’s education, she says.

Besides that, Reagan receives a ton of community support in the way of donations and volunteers, particularly from those in real

The school has a blossoming robotics program that went to state for Destination Imagination last year.

This month, Reagan receives a Real School Garden thanks to a $30,000 grant from the grocer Sprouts Farmers Market and AT&T. The school district will remove a portable to make room for the learning garden, which breaks ground Nov. 3. It will have raised vegetable beds, shaded seating areas, a whiteboard, a weather station and a rain harvester, among other features. The garden will serve as an outdoor classroom for lessons in nutrition, earth science and art.

As with everything they’re given, the teachers and students of Reagan will take full advantage of it, Ramirez says.

“We all know that we work with what we’ve got, and it goes back to the upbringing of our staff,” she says. “You’re not born into privilege; you make do with what you’ve got.”

—RACHEL STONE

If you’d like to leave your own legacy in Oak Cliff, call us today to learn more about our properties of distinction.

Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate, InTown 2828 Routh Street, Suite 100 214.303.1133