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Average tax bills in GISD go up $200 Georgetown ISD has adopted a slightly lower tax rate for fiscal year 2025-26 com- pared to FY 2024-25. Despite the decreased rate, a GISD homeowner with an average taxable value of $379,767 could expect to pay $3,989.83 in property taxes for FY 2025-26, according to district information. This would be an increase of $199.12 in annual property taxes compared to the previous tax rate and average taxable home value of $359,513 in FY 2024-25. The breakdown At an Aug. 18 meeting, the GISD board of trustees approved a maintenance and operations tax rate of $0.6931 per $100 valuation, and an interest and sinking tax rate of $0.3575, totaling $1.0506.
GISD ranks second in Austin-area home sales Georgetown ISD had the second highest number of home sales this spring compared to other Austin-area school districts. From April to June, 1,849 new homes were sold in the district, surpassing Liberty Hill ISD’s 1,714 homes sold. Hays CISD continued to have the highest number of home sales at 3,683. Despite seeing a decrease in its overall enroll- ment projections from the beginning of the year, GISD “will continue to grow for many, many years” due to an abundance of undeveloped land in the area, Zonda Demographics adviser Stuart Keogh said at an Aug. 18 board meeting. Zooming in The Wolf Ranch area saw the most housing growth from April to June, Keogh said. Addition- ally, much development was underway near Ford and San Gabriel elementaries, as well as near
Home sales by neighborhood
Parkside on the River
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Wolf Ranch/South Fork
264
Santa Rita Ranch/Tierra Rosa 156 Retreat at San Gabriel 131 Patterson Ranch 123
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Mitchell and Williams elementaries, he said. Wolf Ranch Elementary is projected to be over- capacity beginning next school year with nearly 1,000 students. Williams and Cooper elementaries are expected to exceed capacity by the 2028-29 school year with 972 students and 725 students, respectively.
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