Decatur ISD has a comprehensive school counseling program that includes:

• A guidance curriculum to help students develop their full educational potential, including the student's interests and career objectives;
• A responsive services component to intervene on behalf of any student whose immediate personal concerns or problems put the student's continued educational, career, personal, or social development at risk;
• An individual planning system to guide a student as the student plans, monitors, and manages the student's own educational, career, personal, and social development; and
• Systems to support the efforts of teachers, staff, parents, and other members of the community in promoting the educational, career, personal, and social development of students.