School Counselors: Helping Students Dream Big
National School Counseling Week highlights the unique contributions of school counselors within U.S. school systems and their tremendous impact on student success. Please thank our school counselors for helping us to grow champions, every student, every day!
Learn more about the role of this essential profession: https://www.schoolcounselor.org/role
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Chris Endrizzi: Bataan Counselor
Bataan Elementary School’s counselor is Chris Endrizzi. She has been with us since December 1, 2020. After retiring from DPS and holding several positions, she decided she wanted to come back and continue to work with students. Our students and staff have come to adore her in a very short time. She goes out of her way to make every student feel special and unique. Our staff appreciate her positive personality and willingness to make a difference at our school. We are lucky to have her on our team.
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Denise Legarda: Bell Counselor
Bell Elementary would like to celebrate Ms. Denise Legarda. As our school counselor, she wears so many hats. She is available for students the minute they arrive at school. She is able to connect with every student by greeting them as they enter the building to pick up their breakfast. She welcomes each one by name with excitement and motivation. Ms. Legarda not only gives students that moment in time, but is willing to spend the needed amount of time without a second thought. She is highly organized and creative. She is always planning school-wide activities that promote building a community. Ms. Legarda not only provides students with individual and/or small group collaborative sessions, but she also works with all K-5 students each week. During these weekly classes, she is promoting leadership characteristics that can be used beyond our school walls. Ms. Legarda promotes student ownership and responsibilities. Students report to their assigned duties, supporting other students during morning arrival times, end of school day, and during lunch periods. Our school counselor at Bell is definitely a motivator, a positive influencer, problem solver, and most importantly puts all students first. Thank you Ms. Legarda for your dedication to Deming Public Schools, you are appreciated!
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Mary Monjaras(Mrs. MM): Chaparral Counselor
Mrs. MM is the most kind spirt and fun counselor ever and has an amazing attitude. She dresses nice and is colorful every day. The student council love her to be the counselor and enjoy her talks with them. She continues to amaze us every year here at Chaparral.
Thank you!
-Chaparral Student Council
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Mrs. Vilma Villalva: Columbus Counselor
Supporting students daily, is one of her priorities. She provides support for all grade levels during weekly SEL classes and circle time. Thank you for everything you do for our students!
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Ron Hamelink: Memorial Counselor
Ron Hamelink has worked at Memorial Elementary since 2004. He came to DPS through a chance encounter with Hector Madrid and has served the students of Memorial Elementary with compassion and wisdom for 18 years. He pulls from his experience as a teacher at NMSU and extensive counseling work supporting adults who struggled with addiction and violence to support our students. He is a treasured member of Memorial’s Team Legacy.
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Debbie Vigil: RST Counselor
Mrs. Vigil is always there for us. She meets with us and helps us solve problems. She also does fun stuff like dress up days and the kindness challenge.
-Club Hero
Mrs. Vigil supports all staff and students. She supports positive behavior and makes a difference for all of RST. We would be lost without her!
-Connie Maag
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Lorena Sandoval: DIS Counselor
Making a list of things that Mrs. Sandoval does not do would be easier than listing what she does do for our staff and students at DIS. She is thoughtful, a good listener, empathetic, understanding, supportive, a trusted presence, and the list goes on. It takes a lot of traits to be a good counselor, and these are only a handful of reasons why Mrs. Sandoval is a rockstar.
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Christina Reyes and Miquela Jurado: RMMS Counselors
Red Mountain Middle School students, staff and administration would like to thank our two tenacious counselors Mrs. Christina Reyes and Ms. Miquela Jurado who keep RMMS students and staff safe and healthy each day!
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Yvonne Perales: DHS Counselor
Mrs. Yvonne Perales is currently DHS’ 10th grade counselor. She has always proven to provide our student body with effective support in their four-year tenure at DHS. Mrs. Perales ensures our students are exposed to as many opportunities as possible that will assist them in making decisions in life after high school. Mrs. Perales leads DHS students in their transition into postsecondary education by facilitating and organizing scholarship requirements for students along with opportunities for students to improve on resume and personal narrative writing for future careers.
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Edith Sanchez: DHS Counselor
Mrs. Edith Sanchez does an excellent job of providing her assigned student body assistance and guidance throughout their academic career at DHS. She uses effective practices and student interest to provide all students opportunities in high interest courses that will benefit students in their life after high school. Social and Emotional support have also been an important factor this year for our student body. Mrs. Sanchez has adapted her practices to effectively provided guidance in this area of need.
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Joli Zumwalt: DHS Counselor
Mrs. Joli Zumwalt is currently our 11th grade and CTE counselor. Among her daily duties as a counselor, she assists throughout the year in our Perkins and NEXT GEN grant writing process. Her expertise in student and community interest assists in bringing and establishing quality programs of study for the benefit of our student body. She is always willing to assist and provide constructive criticism to make needed system changes as part of the DHS core leadership team.
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Heather Tharp: DHS Counselor
Mrs. Tharp is currently our 12th grade counselor at Deming High School. She brings a high level of expertise and background knowledge to her position that serves as a role model in her department. She is a foundational piece of DHS’ vision to promote creative-independent learners at Deming High School. She is consistent in keeping communication among all stakeholders and providing students with multiple resources that provide emotional and intellectual growth.
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Deming High School would like to send a huge shout out to these wonderful counselors. They are an amazing group of people and DHS is privileged to have them part of the team! Thank you, DHS Counselors! | |
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Ariana Ortiz and Cynthia Benting: ECHS Counselors
ECHS appreciates our competent and compassionate Counselors: Ariana Ortiz, and Cynthia Benting!
Thank you for everything you do for our students! We are so proud to have both of you on our team!
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ECHS students showing love for their counselors. | |
Our District Spelling Bee Champions! 2nd place Yunibia Carrazco and 1st place Mia Pena. Both students are from Red Mountain Middle School. If you were unable to attend, see the video below for highlights. | |
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Senator Cliff Pirtle with Superintendent Chavez at the Silver Spikes Legislative Reception
Superintendent Chavez and the Board of Education have been working hard for Deming Public School at the Legislature. To learn more about their efforts and updates on the bills affecting education click the link below.
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4th grade students using manipulatives to support them in understanding addition and subtraction of fractions as joining and separating parts, when referring to the same whole.
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English Spelling Bee winners. These students participated in the district English Spelling Bee.
Eiza Gonzalez, Mia Sanchez, Uriel Contreras, Kevin Dominguez and Jared Jurado
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Spanish Spelling Bee winners. These students will participate in the district Spanish Spelling Bee.
Evelyn Favila, Sebastian Gonzalez, Kevin Dominguez, Karina Marquez and Mailen Sandoval
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Kinder end of unit student Science projects.
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Deming Intermediate School | |
A Honor Roll for the 2nd grading period. Congratulations to these students! | |
A/B Honor Roll for the 2nd Grading Period. Congratulations! | |
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Winners of the Deming Intermediate School Spelling Bee from left to right
1st place - Jessica Casillas
2nd place - Ali Westenhofer
3rd place - Areli Estrada
4th place - Xena Sanchez
5th place - Anthony Gentile
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Perfect Attendance for the 2nd Grading Period! | |
Mr. Ramirez implemented an Attendance Challenge in his Bilingual Social Studies Classes. Students with perfect attendance are entered into a drawing for prizes. Congratulations to the winners! | |
Red Mountain Middle School | |
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Back 2 School Bash Fun!
On January 13th, the RMMS Student Involvement Committee hosted an in school Back to School Carnival to help students celebrate the beginning of the new semester and the new year. The last two hours of the school day, students were able to choose three different activities to enjoy.
Activities available were Loteria, Card games, Board games, arts & crafts, corn hole, anime or movie watching, dance, basketball, football, soccer, archery, etc. Here are just some of the pictures from the day! Visit us on Facebook or our school website for a video presentation of the day’s events.
Stay tuned as Student Involvement as well as school clubs are planning on having more days of fun to enrich students as we celebrate their achievements during their academic school year.
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2023 RMMS Spelling Bee Winners
RMMS Library hosted the 2023 school Scripps Spelling Bee on Thursday, Jan. 12. Out of seventeen student participants five will be going on to the DPS District Spelling Bee on Feb. 3 with the 1st place winner getting the opportunity to qualify for the Regional Scripps Spelling Bee in the March.
This year's winning spellers, pictured from left to right, were:
5th Place: Mariah Carlos
4th Place: Mia Pena
3rd Place: Nathaniel Taylor
2nd Place: Yunibia Carrazco
1st Place & Spelling Bee Champion: Emma Astudillo
Congratulations Wildcats!
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We also want to give special thanks to all the students who participated. In addition, we want to thank Ms. Rico, Mr. Hernandez, Deputy Valdez (pictured above from left to right behind students), and Mr. Butler (pictured as orating words in top photo). All of you helped make this year's spelling bee a success. Thank you! | |
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RMMS 7th grade basketball finished the season as the tournament champions, and ended the year with a 12-1 record.
Pictured above, starting at the left in the back row:
Coach Hofacket, Gabriel Lozano, Jaime Solis, Isaiah Pacheco, Isaac Milo, Rowdy Smrkovsky, Darren Westbrook, and Fernando Bejarano
Front: Nathan Parrel, Timothy Perez, Jack Hofacket, Pablo Covarrubias, Mario Amaya, and Brett Wenzel
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Deming High School Student Health Fair, hosted by Luna County Health Council and Deming Public Schools. About 1,300 students visited the dozens of community resources tables, ranging from health care, drug awareness, law enforcement, and volunteering opportunities to job readiness and career planning. | |
The Deming High School Robotics Team was able to qualify and compete at the Texas BEST regional in December 2022. They earned a 3rd place finish at the NMSU BEST Hub regional. The team designed a t-shirt and at the Texas Best regional and earned an award for the 2nd Best t-shirt design. | |
Up Coming Events and Announcements | |
We know the costs of tuition, room and board, books and supplies can add up. As a part of our commitment to community, Columbus Electric Cooperative wants to ease the financial burden on local students through our scholarships. Learn more and apply: https://www.columbusco-op.org/scholarships | |
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It is that time of year where students can apply for a 2023 High School Scholarship from the New Mexico Association of School Business Officials.
2023 Scholarship Rules
- Only online submissions through Reviewr will be accepted.
- Only complete applications will be accepted.
- Applications must be submitted by Wednesday, March 1, 2023.
Please contact 505.923.3283 if you have any questions.
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KOTS Broadcasts
Wildcat Sports
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Deming Radio KOTS 1230AM Sports Team
Danny Rodriguez on the left, Carlos Astudillo on the right
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KOTS has been broadcasting Wildcat Sports since the station went on air, back in 1954. KOTS broadcasts live Wildcat Football, Volleyball, Basketball, Baseball, Softball, and Soccer games.
KOTS is proud to be part of Deming Wildcat Sports
and Deming Public Schools.
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