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Superintendent reports healthy early 2025 school-year enrollment, low non-specialized classroom vacancies
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Crawford reported a positive first week of school with healthy enrollment, growing middle-school cohorts, and few non-specialized classroom vacancies; staff raised concern about state certification deadlines.
Superintendent Dr. Crawford briefed trustees on the district's first week of the school year, reporting what he described as a “resounding success” for the midweek start and the initial full week. He told trustees enrollment is healthy and highlighted growth at middle-school grades at Birdwell and Caldwell Arts Academy, and that both campuses are now healthy-sized with over 600 students each.
Crawford said Tyler ISD does not currently have any portable classrooms in use and that the district's enrollment was approaching a recent high-water mark recorded in prior years. He reported district non-specialized classroom vacancies of five (described in the meeting as five vacancies), which he characterized as a strong staffing position compared with earlier years when vacancies approached 125–200.
Crawford and trustees discussed certification requirements. He said the state deadline to eliminate certain loopholes in teacher certification is effectively 2029 (he cited 2030 in state guidance but said the schedule appears to have slid to 2029). Trustees expressed concern that the district must continue to support staff working toward certification as the statewide deadline approaches.
Crawford also referenced overhead items such as facility quality and thanked the community for supporting facility improvements over the prior 20 years. He did not announce specific personnel or enrollment-level remedies during the meeting; he encouraged trustees to ask questions and to review the full enrollment slides and staffing reports in the packet.
