It is the second time the district has delayed revisions to the lines that determine which school a student will attend. Austin ISD hasn’t had a comprehensive update to the boundaries in decades and the proposed changes could redraw attendance lines for thousands of students.
District leaders have insisted the changes are needed to more efficiently run schools. But now, Superintendent Matias Segura wrote, they need more time after receiving more than 2,750 public comments about the process in the past few weeks.
But Austin ISD will make some “urgent and required changes” in fall 2027.
According to Segura’s letter, the delay comes “as our system works to navigate many complex issues, such as budget, staffing, academic visioning and continued enrollment efforts after the latest consolidations.”
The current plan had been to vote on changes this fall that would go into effect in the 2027-28 school year.
With the shift announced Friday, the district will start the 2027-28 year with only limited boundary changes to ensure schools are not overcrowded due to closures or because of growth that would require adding portable classrooms, which Segura said the district cannot afford.
Segura said the district will make the proposed changes public Aug. 7 and present them to the school board for a vote in September.
The more sweeping and comprehensive changes, which could change the assigned campuses for thousands of students, now won’t come until 2028, after a vote in the fall of 2027. The process, which now could involve the closure of more campuses, won’t formally start until January, Segura said.
“Taking this extra time allows us to monitor enrollment trends following recent closures, analyze data from our October enrollment snapshot, and further progress our academic visioning,” Segura said in the letter.
But the district hosted several community workshops over the past two weeks to share suggested changes with residents and received thousands of comments it now wants to work through.