Education
LISD adopts elementary attendance boundaries Over 550 students will attend Elementary School No. 30 next school year after the board of trustees approved new attendance zones at a Feb. 15 meeting. The board’s vote completed a monthslong rezoning process that began in September and included four zoning proposals, community feedback and multiple district meetings. A closer look Students from several northern elementary campuses will be rezoned as Elementary School No. 30 will open in August at the intersection of San Gabriel Parkway and North Bagdad Road. The only change the district made from its last zoning proposal was not transferring students from Camacho to Whitestone Elementary, Chief Operations Officer Jimmy Disler said.
District allocates $40M in savings for projects Almost $40 million in Leander ISD bond project savings and interest earnings will go towards district projects. The breakdown Trustees allocated the following funding amounts to these projects on Feb. 1: • Leander High School Master Plan Rede- sign Phase 1: $32.3 million to renovate athletic facilities to improve public events • Early College High School portables: $4.15 million to move ECHS out of the ACC San Gabriel Campus and into portables in August • CR 175: $2 million to partner with Wil- liamson County to widen and reconstruct CR 175 from RM 2243 to south of Creek Meadow Drive
Students impacted Over 920 students will be rezoned, with 552 moving to Elementary School No. 30. • 302 from Bagdad Elementary to Elementary School No. 30 • 250 from Plain Elementary to Elementary School No. 30 • 173 from Larkspur Elementary to North Elementary • 144 from Tarvin Elementary to Larkspur • 31 from Plain to Camacho Elementary • 27 from Camacho to Bagdad
SOURCE: LEANDER ISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT
The backstory The adopted zoning scenario was created after the district updated the functional capacities for elementary campuses at the request of the board. The board rejected administration’s initial recommendation to move forward with a third scenario in January due to concerns that it increased the functional capacity at North Elemen- tary, underutilized Elementary School No. 30 and overutilized Whitestone Elementary.
LISD sees decrease in math, improvements in reading Fewer students were performing at grade level in math in the middle of this school year than at the beginning, while students showed improve- ments in reading, according to data presented at a Feb. 15 board of trustees meeting. The big picture Students in kindergarten through eighth grade exhibited a lower level of math readiness—performing at grade level or above—in December compared to September, except for third grade, which saw an increase from 69% to 71%. The data may have been impacted by teacher turnover as new teachers came on board without the same level of training, Area Superintendent Christine Simpson said.
LISD K-8 math readiness
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SOURCE: LEANDER ISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT
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