Education
BY AMIRA VAN LEEUWEN
Local districts set FY 202526 tax rates The Comal ISD and New Braunfels ISD boards of trustees approved the tax rates for the 2025-26 scal year. CISD trustees approved a $1.0748 tax rate for FY 2025-26 on Aug. 28, which is $0.0121 less than the FY 2024-25 rate. What you need to know Certied property tax values were submitted to the Texas Education Agency Aug. 1 to set the district’s Tier I tax rate within the limits of House Bill 2. HB 2 was signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott June 4 and will give nearly 9,000 public schools $8.4 billion in new funding, according to previous reporting by Community Impact . For CISD, the maintenance and operations, or M&O, tax rate is a total of $0.7248. The interest and sinking tax rate is $0.35, board documents state.
Comal ISD completes playground upgrades Comal ISD has completed playground upgrades—totaling $34 million —for 18 ele- mentary school campuses across the district. The upgrades were funded by the district’s 2021 bond and were completed in August, CISD Communications Specialist Salwa Lan- ford said in an email to Community Impact . Digging deeper Campuses received two new playgrounds with rubberized surfaces, including one for K through 1st-grade students and another for 3rd through 5th-grade students. Other upgrades included new outdoor basketball goals and articial turf play elds. All 18 existing elementary schools in the district at the time of the bond election received playground upgrades, Lanford said in the email.
FY 202526 tax rate breakdown
Interest and Sinking Maintenance and Operations
Comal ISD $0.35
$0.7248
$1.0748 tax rate
New Braunfels ISD $0.3408 $0.6969
$1.0377 tax rate
SOURCE: COMAL ISD, NEW BRAUNFELS ISDCOMMUNITY IMPACT
In other news NBISD trustees approved a tax rate of $1.0377 per $100 of taxable value for FY 2025-26 on Aug. 25. The rate means homeowners will see no change in the school tax rate from last year. Last year, the average taxable value of a home in NBISD was $305,426, which is a $273 decrease in school district taxes. This year, the average taxable value of a home is $279,122, the release states.
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