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McAllen ISD board adopts 2025 tax rate of $0.9322 per $100 valuation
Summary
The McAllen Independent School District board on Sept. 23 held a required public hearing on the proposed 2025 tax rate and voted to adopt a $0.9322 rate per $100 valuation, a 7.64 percent increase over the no-new-revenue rate; board recorded votes were taken.
The McAllen Independent School District Board of Trustees voted Sept. 23 to adopt a 2025 tax rate of $0.9322 per $100 of property valuation following a required public hearing. The hearing included a presentation from Deputy Superintendent for Business and Operations Lorena Garcia and a public comment period before the board took a recorded vote.
Garcia told trustees the hearing was required under state law and explained how the district’s tax rate is split between maintenance and operations and interest and sinking for voter-approved bonds. "This hearing is required under state law to review the 2025-2026 tax rate," Garcia said during the presentation.
The adopted rate of $0.9322 is down from the 2024-25 total rate of $0.9966 but is 7.64 percent higher than the calculated no-new-revenue rate of 0.866 used for truth-in-taxation calculations, Garcia said. The district presented an example showing that because property values rose, an average homeowner with a market value that the presentation showed moving from $223,619 to $247,770 would see an estimated savings of $227.36 despite the lower tax rate.
Trustees took a recorded vote on the motion to adopt the tax rate. The board called each trustee’s vote aloud and the motion passed on the record.
Why it matters: The tax-rate adoption is the formal step that sets the district’s levy for the coming tax year. Garcia also reminded the public that Hidalgo County Appraisal District sets property values; the district adopts the rate. The board held the public hearing as required and provided comparisons to peer districts and an explanation of components such as the compressed Tier 1 maintenance-and-operations rate, Tier 2 enrichment pennies and the interest-and-sinking portion that repays bonds.
Following the hearing and vote, the board also approved a resolution setting the 2025 tax rate. The administration said those procedural steps complete the district’s tax-rate obligations under the Truth in Taxation provisions of the Texas Education Code.
