Conroe ISD board adopts $761 million budget, keeps tax rate unchanged at $0.9496

The Conroe Independent School District board of trustees adopted a balanced $761.05 million budget for the 2025–26 school year and approved a combined tax rate of $0.9496 per $100 of taxable value after a public hearing Tuesday night.

The board's action, taken after presentations by district finance staff, kept the maintenance-and-operations rate at 0.6696 and the debt-service rate at 0.28. The vote to adopt the budget and the tax rate was unanimous.

Why it matters: The budget and tax-rate decisions set the district's financial baseline for classrooms, salaries and operations through the coming school year. The plan incorporates state school-finance changes enacted this session and funds an approved pay schedule for employees.

Finance staff said the district expects roughly $60.98 million in additional revenue next year, about $41 million of which is linked to changes in the state's House Bill 2 funding formula. That funding increase helped the district present a budget in which projected revenue equals expenditures, leaving a balanced general fund for the year.

"We are recommending no change in the tax rate, 0.9496," said Miss Garza, a district finance staff member…