Education
District anticipating cuts to budget
Round Rock ISD administrators expect budget cuts to be made while planning for the 2024-2025 school year Feb. 15. What you need to know The district is facing several funding challenges requiring changes to the budget. However, RRISD Superintendent Hafedh Azaiez said the district is planning to avoid letting any employees go. Rather, the district will use attrition—unfilled positions that are then eliminated—to curb personnel expenditures. The district is considering the following actions to reduce expenses for the 2024-25 school year: • Reduce central office positions
• Reduce central office school support positions • Reduce position allocations due to enrollment decline • Increase high school, middle school and elementary school class size formulas • Reduce school level support positions • Reduce summer school program • Reduce all work calendars by one day • Reduce departmental allocations • Eliminate cell phone stipends • Reduce travel • Eliminate food purchases • Adjust transportation delivery model
Several aspects of the current budget year have lead the district to plan for cuts in the upcoming 2024-2025 budget.
$17.16M The projected deficit for the 2023-2024 fiscal year
4,482 The net decrease in projected enrollment since the 2020-2021 school year
$77.8M Amount projected to be paid in recapture for the 2023-2024 fiscal year upon budget adoption
SOURCE: ROUND ROCK ISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT
McNeil High School now IB campus
Round Rock ISD now has three International Baccalaureate high schools, as McNeil High School received the designation in December. What happened RRISD shared in January that the designation of McNeil High School was a year-and-a-half in the making. It joins Westwood and Stony Point High Schools in the IB program. McNeil was chosen because stu- dents zoned for it were attending other IB schools, according to staff.
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
Encourages cross-disciplinary, internationally minded students with critical- thinking skills
Awards IB diploma
Allows students to claim a minimum of 24 hours of college credit at a public college or university
SOURCE: ROUND ROCK ISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT
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