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Bastrop ISD approves new attendance boundaries for 2025–26 school year
Summary
Trustees approved a final boundary plan to accommodate a ninth elementary and two new middle schools; board and demographers say most families accepted changes after town halls and outreach.
The Bastrop Independent School District Board of Trustees voted to approve new attendance boundaries for the 2025–26 school year, adopting lines the district says are necessary to factor in a ninth elementary school and two additional middle schools.
Dr. Christie Lee, deputy superintendent, presented the final boundaries to trustees, showing adjustments across elementary and middle school zones to account for the new campuses and to clean up several small boundary anomalies that previously split homes across school lines. She told the board the changes are intended to balance enrollment and reflect the district’s demographic projections.
Lee said the draft was presented in November, then refined after town halls, website postings and direct family outreach. She described the principal changes as shifts that place neighborhoods into the newly configured elementary and middle school footprints and a “very minor adjustment” to make a high‑school boundary line follow a street instead of splitting a house. The plan, she said, anticipates that when a 10th elementary school opens (district materials show a projected 2026 opening), enrollment numbers will be redistributed among more campuses.
Trustees and staff described the community feedback as largely constructive. The district’s demographers participated in the process and the administration said the objective was to exhaust existing capacity and resources before proposing new bonds. A trustee noted some parents sought high‑school boundary changes but the board declined to alter high‑school assignments at this time.
A motion to approve the attendance boundaries passed; the board recorded the motion as adopted and did not provide a roll‑call tally in the public record. Trustees said campus staff will work to welcome students who change schools and that the district will communicate next steps to affected families.
The boundaries approved at the meeting will govern assignments for the 2025–26 school year as summarized by the district at the meeting; the district will revisit boundaries again when the planned additional elementary opens.
