BY ELLE BENT & CHLOE YOUNG
LTISD STAAR scores improve from 2022 Lake Travis ISD students outperformed state averages in every grade level and subject in the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness administered this spring. Also of note STAAR results released Aug. 16 showed LTISD State LTISD Reading 5th grade 0 LTISD STAAR passage rates 100% 20% 40% 60% 80%
Lake Travis ISD adopts historically low tax rate The Lake Travis ISD board of trustees adopted a $232 million budget for fiscal year 2023-24 with a tax rate of $1.074 per $100 valuation at an Aug. 16 meeting. The rate is a historic low for the district, said Pam Sanchez, the district’s assistant superintendent for business services. What you need to know The decrease comes in light of the state’s recently passed property tax relief plan, which compressed the district’s maintenance and operations tax rate. Despite the decrease, LTISD was required to report a 22% tax rate increase—the difference between this year’s rate versus the no-new-revenue rate. A household at average market value will pay around $5,572 in school property taxes, almost $600 less than in FY 2022-23.
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also maintained or outperformed scores from 2022. Scores stayed the same for seventh and eighth grade reading and sixth grade math while all others rose. This year was the first time students took the STAAR since the state redesigned the test to better align with classroom learning. The redesigned test was mostly administered online and included new types of questions, cross-curricular reading passages and evidence-based writing assessments. “This test is far more rigorous in just the way that it is written than it ever has been in the past,” said Lyndsae Benton, LTISD’s executive director of curriculum and instruction, at an Aug. 16 board of trustees meeting.
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SOURCE: TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY/COMMUNITY IMPACT
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