{"id":461831,"date":"2026-10-10T03:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T03:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461831\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T03:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T03:56:09","slug":"houston-isd-board-of-managers-approves-fy-2026-27-tax-rate-heights-river-oaks-montrose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461831\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston ISD board of managers approves FY 2026-27 tax rate | Heights – River Oaks – Montrose"},"content":{"rendered":"

A homeowner within Houston ISD<\/a>\u2019s boundaries who has a home value of $299,166\u2014the median value for the district\u2014is expected to see a year-over-year drop in their annual tax bill from the district, according to HISD.<\/p>\n

The gist<\/p>\n

On Oct. 8<\/a>, HISD\u2019s board of managers unanimously approved a fiscal year 2026-27 total tax rate of $0.8421 per $100 valuation, according to Oct. 8 meeting documents<\/a>. The tax rate is $0.0362 lower than the current total tax rate of $0.8783 per $100 valuation.<\/p>\n

The median value of a home within HISD\u2019s boundaries for FY 2026-27 is $299,166, according to HISD meeting documents. That means a taxpayer with this home value is expected to pay $2,519 in annual taxes to HISD.<\/p>\n

In FY 2025-26, the median home value was $296,904, so a taxpayer with that home value paid $2,608 annually, according to meeting documents.<\/p>\n

As previously reported, although HISD\u2019s tax rate decreased year over year, homeowners may still see an increase<\/a> on their tax bill if:<\/p>\n

The taxpayer\u2019s home or land value increases<\/p>\n

The taxpayer loses a property tax exemption<\/p>\n

The property value exceeds the 10% appraisal cap<\/p>\n

Remember this?<\/p>\n

On June 25<\/a>, Houston ISD\u2019s board of managers unanimously approved the district\u2019s FY 2026-27 budget, which features an estimated $24.5 million shortfall, as previously reported. The approved FY 2026-27 general fund budget features:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A homeowner within Houston ISD\u2019s boundaries who has a home value of $299,166\u2014the median value for the district\u2014is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4045,73093,109966,125378,157805,125380,125379,56,58,1686,57],"class_list":["post-461831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-hisd","tag-hisd-board-of-managers","tag-hisd-budget","tag-hisd-budget-2026-27","tag-hisd-fy-2026-27","tag-hisd-property-values","tag-hisd-tax-rate","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-isd","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461831","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=461831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}