school's popularity among neighborhood parents increased. The school, as of 2005, gives American Sign Language instruction to all students. In addition most employees, including the principal and all teachers, also had knowledge of ASL. Principles and Methods of Adapted Physical Education and Recreation (2005 edition) states that the "unique and exceptional efforts in educating all children" enrolled resulted in the school receiving the Blue Ribbon Award in 1999. Maria Moreno Elementary School Nancy Moseley Elementary School Mount Auburn Elementary School a.k.a. Mount Auburn STEAM Academy - In 2015 almost all of the students were Hispanic and Latino, and most were economically disadvantaged. Clara Oliver Elementary School George Peabody Elementary School Elisha M. Pease Elementary School John F. Peeler Elementary School - In 2018 DISD designated it as one of six "decision point" schools which could be closed in the future due to a low student population. John J. Pershing Elementary School is in North Dallas, within Preston Hollow., and serving a part of Old Preston Hollow. Pleasant Grove Elementary School K.B. Polk Center for Academically Talented and Gifted Preston Hollow Elementary School John H. Reagan Elementary School Martha Turner Reilly Elementary School Reinhardt Elementary School Joseph J. Rhoads Learning Center Charles Rice Learning Center, located in the Queen City area of South Dallas, is in a red brick, two story building. As part of reforms encouraged by U.S. District Judge Barefoot Sanders, DISD increased the school day length and increased teacher salaries in schools designated as "learning centers" which included Rice. In 2015 Eric Nicholson of the Dallas Observer stated that Rice is "generally regarded by parents as" the best elementary school in South Dallas. According to Nicholson, "regard Charles Rice as a local gem, but its reputation for quality doesn't extend much further than that" partly due to the school's high level of student poverty and partly due to the poor reputation of South Dallas. The school, which as of 2015 had 98% of its students designated as having free or reduced lunch (a marker of being poor), had the highest 2013-2015 School Effectiveness Index (SEI), an internal DISD school index that determines how well a school is performing relative to its community demographics. Nicholson wrote in March 2016 that the SEI ranking "perennially puts Charles Rice neck and neck with [Lakewood Elementary in the Lakewood neighborhood in East Dallas] as the district's best non-magnet school" even though Rice's