Welcome to DPLC

• Principal: Danny Gilfort 

• Address: 401 North Driver Street, Durham, NC 27703
• Phone : (919) 560.9190
• Office Hours:  8-5pm
• School Hours:  8am-3:00pm

   

  

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We believe that anyone who has an active desire to change his/her circumstance deserves the opportunity to work toward that goal[1]. 

We believe that knowledge and success stem from a quality, personal education, the courage to face our fears, our failures, and our past and move beyond them, the ability to see a new path when the one we’re travelling compromises who we are and how we see ourselves, and a resilience that finds us firmly on our feet when we stumble along the way.  

We believe that the lessons we learn here are for us in part but for others on the whole.

We believe that anything worth having should be difficult to get.

We believe that positive contributions to our community and school will only breathe more life into all the things we will accomplish.

We believe that our experiences do not dictate who we are or who we will become.

We believe that it is our right to strive for the greatness we know we can achieve.

We believe that the sky is the limit[2].

[1]From Elizabeth Watts, DPLC student, 2007-2008

[2]In remembrance of Skye Lee (d. 2008), former student, 2007