{"id":55202,"date":"2025-11-18T22:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/55202\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T22:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:14:10","slug":"austin-isd-shares-final-school-consolidation-plan-vote-on-nov-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/55202\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin ISD shares final school consolidation plan; vote on Nov. 20"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAs Austin ISD<\/a> officials near an official vote on school consolidations Nov. 20, a final plan<\/a> was shared with the community Nov. 14.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s happening<\/p>\n

District officials began the process of considering school consolidations<\/a> nine months ago. As of Nov. 14, Superintendent Matias Segura said the final plan that will be brought to the AISD board of trustees recommends closing 10 schools.<\/p>\n

The board will also consider turnaround plans for failing schools during a Nov. 20 meeting in addition to the proposed program moves and school consolidations.<\/p>\n

Some changes from the initial plan AISD officials shared back in October include:<\/p>\n

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The program reassignments officials are proposing include:<\/p>\n

The school-wide dual language program at Sunset Valley Elementary School<\/a> would relocate to Odom Elementary School<\/a> as an unzoned school-wide dual language program.With the closing of Winn Montessori<\/a>, a Montessori Program could be created at Reilly Elementary School.Reilly Elementary\u2019s school-wide dual language program would be introduced to Wooten Elementary School as a two-way dual language program. The Mandarin program would also move to Wooten Elementary.Blazier<\/a>, Mathews<\/a> and Lee Elementary<\/a> schools would no longer have a sixth grade starting in the 2026-27 school year.International High School<\/a> will close due to low enrollment, and students will return to their home campus to be provided with specialized support.In total, 3,796 students would be reassigned, and 6,319 vacant seats would be eliminated under this plan if the AISD board of trustees approves it Nov. 20. The plan is expected to save more than $20 million in costs for the district.<\/p>\n

The full list of school closures and reassignments can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How we got here<\/p>\n

The sweeping changes come as AISD looks to address declining enrollment<\/a>, lower a mounting budget shortfall<\/a> and provide state-mandated intervention at 12 failing campuses<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the course of a period of time, we’ve gotten to a point where we just cannot ensure that every student in [AISD] gets what they need to be academically successful,\u201d Segura said at a news conference Nov. 14. \u201cWe need to do something bold. We do something big to evolve, to ensure that as a system we grow, and we are in a healthy, vibrant school system for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Oct. 3, AISD proposed closing 13 campuses<\/a> for the 2026-27 school year alongside new attendance boundaries impacting 98% of campuses, changes to programming at some campuses and transfer policy updates. On Nov. 4, Segura announced the district would hold off on<\/a> the boundary changes and the closure of Bryker Woods, Maplewood and Palm elementaries.<\/p>\n

Segura said some of the adjustments to the initial plan were informed by community feedback.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next<\/p>\n

If the plans are approved by the board, Segura said he hopes he will have an update in December on the process.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Austin ISD officials near an official vote on school consolidations Nov. 20, a final plan was shared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,1685,133,2143,12506,745,5908,163,2360,30283,30282],"class_list":["post-55202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-isd","tag-austin-news","tag-central-texas","tag-closed","tag-closings","tag-closures","tag-education","tag-school","tag-school-closings","tag-school-consolidations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55202","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=55202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}