Lake Travis ISD previews preliminary 2025'26 budget and staff reductions tied to attrition; compensation decisions pending state guidance

Lake Travis ISD finance and human resources staff presented a preliminary 2025'26 operating budget and staffing update at the board's regular meeting, saying the district will approve a final budget in August after state guidance is issued.

Pam, a district staff member presenting the budget overview, told trustees the presentation used "current law" because legislative funding changes from the session that concluded this week had not yet been approved by the governor. She said the district is assuming flat enrollment for 2025'26 and that a demographer's study scheduled for the fall will reset longer-term projections.

The presentation explained funding relies on several inputs: student counts and attendance (WADA), local taxable property values and state formulas that affect the maintenance and operations (M&O) tax rate and recapture. Pam said the district is projecting an applied weighted average daily attendance (WADA) of about 12,697 for 2025'26 and reported a current-year attendance rate of about 94.7%, which translates to an average daily attendance (ADA) of about 10,266 students.

Pam said preliminary appraisal…