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Crowley ISD board adopts unchanged 2025–26 tax rate as property values fall
Summary
The Crowley ISD Board of Trustees voted to adopt the 2025–26 tax rate unchanged from 2024–25, keeping the district's debt levy at 50 cents per $100 of assessed value while the state provides hold-harmless protections amid lower local appraisals.
The Crowley ISD Board of Trustees voted to adopt the district's 2025'026 tax rate at its meeting, keeping the consolidated rate unchanged from 2024'025. The board approved the tax rate after a presentation from district finance staff explaining how state calculations and recent changes in property exemptions affected assessed values.
District finance staff member Enrique Fisher told trustees the district's maintenance and operations (M&O) rate is calculated by applying the Texas Education Agency's compressed rate (0.6169) plus a voter-approved enrichment rate (0.1383), producing an M&O rate of 0.7552. The board's debt service levy remains at 50 cents per $100 of assessed value. "We communicated that that tax rate would stay the same. It would not increase," Fisher said during his presentation.
The tax rate funds most of the district's…
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