Education
EISD performs above STAAR state average
Eanes ISD drops tax rate 11% for 2023-24 The Eanes ISD board of trustees voted Aug. 21 to reduce the property tax rate from $1.0046 to $0.888 per $100 of valuation—the lowest rate in the district’s history. Zooming in The decision to reduce the tax rate is due to state compression. “This is a state-mandated change that we are following the law here and lowering the tax rate for compression,” board President James Spradley said. EISD Chief Financial Officer Chris Scott said the district’s recapture payment will be lowered due to the compression. “What’s going to happen is because we’re collecting less, our recapture payment will actually go down next year, counter-intui- tively for us,” Scott said.
The spring State of Texas Assessments of Aca- demic Readiness results were released by the Texas Education Agency on Aug. 16. Since 2021, a higher percentage of Eanes ISD students in third to eighth grades have passed than the state, and reading passage rates were higher than math. Passage rates were higher or the same as 2022 scores in all subjects except third grade reading and eighth grade social studies, according to TEA data. Zooming out The standardized tests were redesigned in 2023 following the passage of House Bill 3906 in 2019 and were administered almost exclusively online. What they’re saying “Eanes ISD students performed well on the revamped STAAR 2.0; we are proud of our students and pleased with the instruction they received,” said Molly May, EISD assistant superintendent for curriculum, instruction and assessment.
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SOURCE: TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY/COMMUNITY IMPACT
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