{"id":50766,"date":"2025-11-15T11:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T11:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/50766\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T11:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T11:58:10","slug":"austin-isd-releases-final-school-consolidation-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/50766\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin ISD releases final school consolidation plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Austin Independent School District released its final version of a school consolidation plan Friday. Ten schools are still slated to close before next year, but the district did make changes to programming and student reassignments.<\/p>\n

The campuses on the list include eight elementary schools \u2014 Barrington, Becker, Dawson, Oak Springs, Ridgetop, Sunset Valley, Wid\u00e9n and Winn Montessori \u2014 as well as Bedichek and Martin middle schools.<\/p>\n

As previously announced, Maplewood, Bryker Woods and Palm elementary schools, which were slated to close under the original plan, will stay open.<\/p>\n

Superintendent Matias Segura said this version of the plan reassigns 3,796 students and eliminates 6,319 empty seats from the district that has faced declining enrollment over the past decade. The plan is expected to generate more than $20 million in immediate gross savings.<\/p>\n

The final version of the plan is available in a document shared by the district.<\/a><\/p>\n

The board of trustees will vote on the plan, as well as turnaround plans for two dozen schools, on Nov. 20. The plan will go into effect before the 2026-27 school year.<\/p>\n

Under the revised plan, all students at Wid\u00e9n Elementary School will relocate to Rodriguez Elementary. Superintendent Matias Segura said the change was made after board members raised concerns about students from failing schools transferring to another failing school. The original plan split Wid\u00e9n Elementary’s student population between Rodriguez and Houston Elementary, which has received an \u2018F\u2019 accountability rating in the latest state report.<\/p>\n

Parents in the district have raised concerns about the availability of dual language programs. The final plan will see Reilly Elementary\u2019s school-wide dual language program close, though the school will remain open. Students previously enrolled in that program will be given priority transfers to other dual language campuses, district officials said.<\/p>\n

Sanchez, Pickle and Wooten were originally slated to become campuses open to all students across the district that only offered dual language courses. Instead, they will remain neighborhood schools that offer dual language programming to a portion of the student population.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Under the original plan, students previously assigned to those three schools would have been reassigned to other campuses to make room for dual language students.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we heard \u2026 was that it would be displacing students who those schools were built for and intended for,\u201d Segura said. \u201cWe really wanted to make sure that we kept the neighborhood school and the students at that school as best we could.\u201d<\/p>\n

Odom Elementary will become a non-zoned dual language campus that is open to students across the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n

International High School that aims to serve immigrants new to Texas as they transition to the state’s public education system will close due to low enrollment. Current students will be assigned to another campus based on boundary lines and offered \u201cnewcomer\u201d support, according to district documents.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Austin ISD did not make a decision on how to move forward with Oak Springs and Blackshear Elementary. <\/p>\n

Under consideration is a plan that would allow construction to continue at Oak Springs. The school is scheduled to undergo a $47.6 million renovation with money from voter-approved 2022 bond<\/a>.<\/p>\n

District officials have proposed moving Oak Springs students to Blackshear Elementary before the 2026-27 school year. Once construction is complete, students from both schools would return to the renovated Oak Springs campus. Blackshear would then likely be closed.<\/p>\n

Segura said the district is also considering relocating students from Garza Independence High School, which offers \u201cpersonalized pathways to graduation through self-paced curriculum,\u201d according to its website.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Also a point of discussion is whether the district will create a non-zoned language immersion program at Joslin Elementary school. The change would not happen before the 2026-27 school year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Austin Independent School District released its final version of a school consolidation plan Friday. Ten schools are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[432,23544,132,134,17882,1685,133,24419,6801,28796,6802],"class_list":["post-50766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-aisd","tag-aisd-school-closures","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-independent-school-district","tag-austin-isd","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-school-closures","tag-matias-segura","tag-reilly-elementary","tag-school-closures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50766","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=50766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}