Education
LTISD weighs scaling down new high school Lake Travis ISD may build its second high school to accommodate 500 fewer students as the district projects lower enrollment growth following a demographic update from Population and Survey Analysts President Stacey Tepera at a
LISD to begin hiring for hard-to-fill roles Leander ISD will begin hiring early for 27 new full-time positions ahead of next school year to find qualified candidates for positions that are hard to fill. The board’s votes at meetings on March 7 and March 28 allowed the district to start hiring for $1.8 million in additional positions for next school year before the district’s fiscal year 2024-25 budget is adopted, Superintendent Bruce Gearing said. Posi- tions include: • 10 special education teachers and four dual language/bilingual teachers • Six Early College High School teachers and three speech language pathologists • Two psychologists, one diagnostician and one occupational therapist
Lowering capacity The revised design for a smaller high school accommodating 1,500 students would remove:
4 science labs
17 classrooms
1 counselor suite
1 gymnasium
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New demographic data shows the district will have 5,000 high school students by the time it is built out compared to previous projections for 5,500 students, Tepera said. As such, the district may need to build its second high school opening in 2027 off Hwy. 71 to serve 1,500 students instead of 2,000, Superinten- dent Paul Norton said. Following the Travis County parks bond passing in November, the district expects that 2,300 fewer homes will be built as more land will be reserved
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for green space. Rising interest rates have also slowed new housing construction and home resales while the district is seeing smaller incoming kindergarten classes, she said. VLK Architects Principal Tom Oehler presented the new high school’s design for 2,000 versus 1,500 students, which involves a 40,000-square- foot size reduction.
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