School Consolidations/Boundary Changes
Executive Summary
Every family should have access to an excellent neighborhood school 鈥 one that is vibrant, well-resourced, and able to meet the unique needs of every child. 果冻传媒app ISD is making these difficult decisions now to protect our values and ensure the long-term health of our school district.
In developing this preliminary plan, we considered its impact on students, teachers, staff, and our community. As we refine and finalize this plan for board approval, we do so with care, transparency, and consideration for our community.
This is about more than budgets or buildings. It鈥檚 about our students and our future. Inaction is not an option, but together, we know a stronger 果冻传媒app ISD lies ahead of us.
Here鈥檚 what鈥檚 proposed to change:
This plan would close 13 school buildings across the district. Doing so would bring 99% of our local schools within a healthier capacity. More importantly, it means that your local schools would be able to offer resources, staffing and programs more effectively and consistently to all students. Athletics programs would grow stronger. Fine arts can flourish on every campus. Enhanced student support would improve outcomes and promote the well-being of the whole child.
International High School would transition from a school co-located at Northeast ECHS to a program located at Navarro ECHS, allowing the majority of students to be served in their neighborhood school.
Four schools would become campus-wide, non-zoned Spanish dual language programs. These programs would serve a balanced ratio of 50% emergent bilingual students and 50% non-emergent bilingual students, and would ensure that emergent bilingual students learn from certified bilingual teachers. This change would also create a stronger, more supportive learning environment and add 590 new seats in dual language programs. In addition, Joslin Elementary School would open a campus-wide, non-zoned immersion program. Together, these changes expand Spanish and Mandarin programs across 果冻传媒app, giving more students across the district access to high-quality language learning.
One campus would be repurposed as the new location to serve districtwide, non-zoned Montessori students, allowing us to support a greater number of students from diverse backgrounds.
Boundary changes and balanced enrollment mean almost all of our district would be touched in some way. Ninety-eight percent of our schools would be affected by a boundary change, ensuring we achieve a more effective district-wide utilization of our facilities, increasing from 76% to 82%.
Feeder patterns that would ensure stronger local school communities for all of our students. This allows students to matriculate with their peers across their PK-12 experience, creating greater collaboration, stability and sense of belonging.
Transfer policy changes that would best support our current and future families. By expanding our 鈥済randfathering鈥 policy, we would allow students to remain at their current school whenever possible.
Reinvesting in our students
Again, this is about more than buildings. It鈥檚 about our students and their success. And it鈥檚 about creating a vibrant and sustainable 果冻传媒app ISD for generations to come.
- We are making strategic reinvestments in our TAP (state accountability) campuses by budgeting an average of $800,000 for new staff positions, including assistant principals, instructional coaches, content interventionists, and lower student-to-teacher ratios. An additional $200,000 per campus would be set aside in certain situations for teacher coaching and leadership support through our early literacy initiative.
- We will work to retain and support our teachers and staff while ensuring more effective staffing across our district. Our proposal ensures stronger staffing across 果冻传媒app ISD while realizing over $20 million in immediate gross savings.
- By retiring some older facilities and consolidating others, we provide students with an improved learning environment while addressing critical budget constraints associated with maintaining aging facilities. The proposal provides $300,000 in immediate savings and $3 million in annual savings over time.
- As schools consolidate and transportation routes are combined, we anticipate longer-term savings in fuel, bus maintenance, and driver costs.
- We will continue to invest in our students while addressing our budget deficit and creating a pathway toward a sustainable school district. This would allow us to maintain our distinguished status for fiscal stewardship among multiple ratings agencies.
What doesn鈥檛 change
果冻传媒app ISD remains committed to ensuring every child is college, career, and life ready. Every day and in every classroom, from Pre-K to 12th grade, we offer a safe and healthy school environment that is academically rigorous and supported by a nationally recognized focus on social-emotional learning. From Fine Arts, Dual Language, and STEM, to Athletics, Magnet Programs, International Baccalaureate, Early College High Schools, and more, 果冻传媒app ISD offers opportunities to fit the needs of every student. Find your seat.
Take a moment to learn more about the proposed plan for transforming 果冻传媒app ISD. After reviewing the plan, drop us a comment card with your questions and concerns, or join us at one of our upcoming community conversations.
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Process Overview
果冻传媒app ISD is in the process of school consolidation 鈥 combining some campuses to ensure every student learns in a well-resourced, fully staffed school with strong programs and support.
For the past six years, school funding from the state has remained flat while costs have continued to rise. At the same time, enrollment has steadily declined 鈥 a trend seen across Texas and the nation. Today, we have about 25,000 empty seats across our schools. This puts a strain on resources, leading to under-resourced campuses and fewer opportunities for our students. The consolidation process will allow us to preserve the educational experience and avoid making deeper budget cuts that would impact our students and schools.
While planning begins now, no changes will be made until the 2026鈥27 school year. Right now, we鈥檙e laying the groundwork by:
- Developing priorities with the board of trustees
- Creating a transparent tool to evaluate school consolidations.
- Evaluating our boundaries and transfer policies
- Gathering input from families, staff and community members to guide our next steps
This won鈥檛 be easy 鈥 but we鈥檙e committed to doing it with care, with transparency, and with our community.
This is about more than budgets or buildings. It鈥檚 about ensuring every student in 果冻传媒app ISD has access to a high-quality education. And when we get it right, we鈥檒l build a stronger 果冻传媒app ISD, together.
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