EDUCATION BRIEFS
News from North East and Northside ISDs
COMPILED BY EDMOND ORTIZ
North East ISD will meet Sept. 19 and Oct. 3 at 5:30 p.m. 8961 Tesoro Drive, San Antonio. 210-407-0000. www.neisd.net Northside ISD will meet Sept. 27 at 6 p.m. 5900 Evers Road, San Antonio 210-397-8500. www.nisd.net MEETINGS WE COVER NORTH EAST ISD Michael De Hoyos, a 2022 Churchill High School graduate, was among 38 San Antonio-area high school students awarded a total of $190,000 in scholarships from Silver Eagle Beverages this summer. DISTRICT HIGHLIGHTS NORTH EAST ISD In August, Forbes Magazine named the district one of America’s Best Employers for a third straight year. Forbes ranked NEISD 78th out of 100 employers in Texas. NEISD is the only San Antonio-area district to be recognized and one of six Texas districts to make the list. NORTH EAST ISD North East Educational Foundation in early August kicked off the new school year by awarding $30,497 in teacher grants. NEISD said two area grant recipients will use their grants to incorporate outdoor learning into their curriculums. Michelle Saenz, a prekindergarten teacher at Bulverde Creek Elementary School, received $2,266 for an outdoor interactive classroom featuring a mud kitchen. Alicia Jeffrey and Caitlyn Khoury, teachers at Tuscany Heights Elementary School, collectively received $3,000 for a mobile imagination station that will include indoor/outdoor building blocks. NORTHSIDE ISD The district’s board Aug. 23 formally recognized NISD counseling, communications, curriculum and instruction, facilities and police staff who provided aid to Uvalde CISD following a fatal mass shooting where 19 children and two teachers died at Robb Elementary School.
NEISD, NISD earn Bs again on state accountability ratings
NORTH EAST & NORTHSIDE ISDS The Texas Education Agency on Aug. 15 released its first accountability ratings for public school districts and campuses since 2019, and the ratings for two North San Antonio districts remained about the same among key categories since then. TEA ratings were issued for nearly 1,200 districts and about 8,450 campuses based on students’ academic growth and performance in the 2021-22 school year. Overall letter grades A-F are given on categories such as performances on the State of Texas Assessments of Aca- demic Readiness; the level of college, career and military readiness; graduation rates; academic growth; and perfor- mance for economically disadvantaged student populations. According to the TEA, the newest set of ratings saw 25% of districts and 33% of campuses improve their letter grade from 2019. Additionally, 18% of high-poverty Texas schools were rated an A, the agency said. North East ISD received an overall score of 89 and a B rating for the 2021-22 academic year, including an 85 score on the STAAR, according to the TEA. The district scored the same for the 2018-19 school year with an 86 score on the STAAR. NEISD also received 212 distinctions this year, improving upon the 120 it earned in 2019. At least 17 NEISD schools in the north central San Antonio
area received an A rating, and another three campuses in the same area earned a B rating, the TEA said. The TEA said Northside ISD this year received an overall score of 84 and a B rating with a STAAR performance score of 79. The district scored an 87, or B, following the 2018-19 school year and an 83 on the STAAR. In part of the Clark High School cluster of campuses, only Blattman Elementary School received an A rating with Clark, Rawlinson Middle, and Colonies North Elementary schools each earning a B rating, the TEA said. Hobby Middle and Locke Hill Elementary schools each received a C rating. RATING SCHOOLS NEISD and NISD each saw little improvement in 2021-22 in the Texas Education Agency’s first issuance of school accountability ratings since 2019-20.
NEISD Overall 89 (B rating)
NISD Overall 84 (B rating)
Student Achievement 82 (B) School Progress 85 (B) Closing the Gaps 81 (B)
Student Achievement 87 (B) School Progress 90 (A) Closing the Gaps 86 (B)
SOURCE: TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY/COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
$61.6M deficit part of NISD’s 2022-23 budget NORTHSIDE ISD On Aug. 23, the NISD school board adopted a $985.6 million budget for the 2022-23 academic year that includes a $61.6 million deficit. NISD officials said they are project- ing $923.9 million in general fund reve- nues this new school year, a decrease from the $941.1 million in revenues that NISD was expected to generate in 2021-22. NISD projected $985.6 million in general fund expenditures in 2022-23,
up from $975.8 million in expenditures last school year. The latter budget figure, NISD officials said, includes a $19.5 million increase in employee compensation and $24 million set aside to accom- modate districtwide growth and improvement, such as the opening of Sotomayor High School, a new campus. The result is a $61.6 million general fund deficit, NISD officials said, adding NISD operated with a $34.6 million deficit last year. NISD is also lowering its total property tax rate from $1.2613 per $100 taxable valuation to $1.1901.
A NEW BUDGET Northside ISD’s budget for the 2022-23 school year has higher operational expenses and lower projected revenue than 2021-22.
Expenses
Revenue
2021-22 GENERAL FUND
$975.8M
$941.1M
2022-23 GENERAL FUND
$985.6M
$923.9M
SOURCE: NISD/ COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
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NORTH SAN ANTONIO EDITION • SEPTEMBER 2022
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