What is the toy drive?

Summer Santa reminds everyone that giving and volunteering for children is important year around, not just at the end-of-the-year holidays.

That’s why Summer Santa holds a toy drive in area schools each year. Top schools win trophies; but more important, students learn about helping others not as fortunate as them.

Students are asked to bring in a new, unwrapped toy (no toy guns, please) and drop them in a toy box in their school lobby during Toy Drive Week.

Toys are distributed to nearly a dozen area charities for children to engage in summertime play.

Where do the toys go?

Toys are distributed to nearly a dozen area charities for children to engage in summertime play.

The charities include:

  • Alliance for Children/Northeast
  • Battered Women’s Foundation
  • Christ’s Haven Home for Children
  • Community Enrichment Center
  • Community Storehouse
  • GRACE
  • Haltom Middle School
  • Open Arms Program
  • Roanoke Food Pantry, NW Christian Community Service
  • SafeHaven of Tarrant County
  • Watauga Cares

2008 Participating Schools for Summer Santa Toy Drive

Birdville ISD:

  • Holiday Heights Elementary
  • Hardeman Elementary
  • Richland High School

Carroll ISD:

  • Old Union Elementary
  • Rockenbaugh Elementary
  • Johnson Elementary
  • Carroll Elementary
  • Carroll Senior High School

Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD:

  • Shady Brook Elementary
  • West Hurst Elementary
  • Hurst Jr. High School
  • Trinity High School

Keller ISD:

  • Friendship Elementary
  • Hillwood Middle School
  • Shady Grove Elementary

Northwest ISD:

  • Prairie View Elementary
  • Roanoke Elementary
  • Medlin Middle School
  • Kay Granger Elementary
  • Samuel Beck Elementary

Primrose School

2008 Summer Santa School Toy Drive Winners

Overall Toy Drive Champion
Hillwood Middle - Keller ISD

Best High School
Carroll Senior High - Carroll ISD

Best Middle School
Hillwood Middle - Keller ISD

Best Elementary School
Samuel Beck Elementary - Northwest ISD

Best Birdville School
Richland Middle School

Best Carroll School
Rockenbaugh Elementary

Best H-E-B School
Harrison Lane Elementary

Best Keller School
Hillwood Middle

Best Northwest School
Kay Granger Elementary

Most Improved District
Northwest ISD