Education
BY MICHAEL CROUCHLEY
Plano ISD adopts new property tax rate for fiscal year 2025-26
over the last year, the district anticipates that the average resident will pay $4,670 in property taxes to the school this year, down $21 from last year’s average. What else The district is also giving less property tax revenue back due to recapture, a program in which funds are redistributed from districts the state deems property rich to districts deemed property poor. PISD staff is expecting a $123 million recapture bill.
Plano ISD has adopted a new tax rate for the upcoming fiscal year. The new rate of $1.03955 per $100 of assessed value was approved by the PISD board of trustees—a decrease from 2024-25’s rate $1.04245. The gist The approved rate is the max- imum a taxing entity can adopt without triggering an election, according to district Chief Financial Officer Courtney Reeves. Reeves added that while average property value in Plano increased
PISD’s tax rate through FY 2025-26
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Plano ISD officials held a rib- bon-cutting and building dedication for the district’s new Welcome and Enrollment Center on Aug. 22. The Bonser-Thomas Welcome & Enrollment Center will offer enroll- ment services, transfer services,
family engagement, a clothes closet, food pantry and more. The center will be the second of its kind in the district. The original is located at the Bird Center, 1300 19th St., Plano.
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