{"id":331230,"date":"2026-06-10T21:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/331230\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T21:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:48:09","slug":"humble-isd-2026-27-budget-includes-special-education-positions-staff-raises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/331230\/","title":{"rendered":"Humble ISD 2026-27 budget includes special education positions, staff raises"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore than 20 new special education positions and a 3% overall general pay increase<\/a> for staff members are among the highlights included in Humble ISD\u2019s<\/a> FY 2026-27 budget.<\/p>\n

The details<\/p>\n

Trustees approved the district\u2019s budget during the board\u2019s June 9 meeting.<\/p>\n

HISD Chief Financial Officer Billy Beattie said the district is projected to spend<\/a> roughly $559.4 million in its general fund budget, while taking in roughly $560.1 million in revenue.<\/p>\n

Beattie said the district\u2019s current projections show the district operating with a surplus of roughly $660,000 next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m very proud to be bringing forward to you a balanced recurring operating budget,\u201d Beattie said. \u201cThat’s a lot of hard work, [and it was] a districtwide effort.\u201d<\/p>\n

A closer look<\/p>\n

Beattie noted a recent audit of the special education department helped guide budget decisions for the department.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got a lot of good information and directive from the results of that audit, so we took that information and aligned those resources to the recommendations,\u201d Beattie said.<\/p>\n

Beattie said roughly $755,000 will be spent on various special education initiatives, including around $582,000 in new positions. Among the positions include:<\/p>\n

Nine full-time equivalent teachersEight paraprofessionalsTwo speech language pathologistsOne diagnosticianOne school psychologistFour occupational therapistsBeattie also noted roughly $50,000 will be spent on new state-mandated dyslexia training.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to provide some additional training to be able to meet that [state] requirement,\u201d Beattie said.<\/p>\n

The overall pay increase\u2014which Beattie said encompasses roughly $12.7 million of the district\u2019s budget\u2014will raise the starting salary for new teachers from $66,000 in FY 2025-26 to $68,000 in FY 2026-27.<\/p>\n

Beattie also highlighted additional raises and incentives some nonteaching positions would be awarded heading into the 2026-27 school year, including:<\/p>\n

An 8% total increase to bus driver and bus aid payUp to $1,600 per year in incentives for bus driversA 4% total increase to custodian payA 6% total increase to high school principal pay\u201cWe think [these raises are] going to put us in a really, really good position among our peers next year,\u201d Beattie said.<\/p>\n

Beattie noted the district would also be increasing police leadership\u2019s pay grade.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next<\/p>\n

While the district will not adopt its FY 2026-27 tax rate until September, Beattie said the budget was built around a proposed tax rate of $1.1052 per $100 valuation, which would remain consistent with the district\u2019s tax rate for the previous two years.<\/p>\n

Average home values within the district’s boundaries rose from roughly $346,000 last year to $348,300 this year, according to budget documents<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While taxes due from individual residents depend on the value of their homes, the average tax bill within the district is projected to increase by roughly $28, rising from an average of around $2,342 last year to roughly $2,370 this year, budget documents show.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 20 new special education positions and a 3% overall general pay increase for staff members are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[76663,56,58,57,31243,106694,118422,118423,106695],"class_list":["post-331230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-billy-beattie","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-humble-isd","tag-humble-isd-budget","tag-humble-isd-fy-2025-26-budget","tag-humble-isd-special-education","tag-humble-isd-teacher-salary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}