Alvin ISD adopts $1.15 tax rate after public hearing; trustees cite state homestead exemption and TEA guidance

The Alvin Independent School District Board of Trustees voted 7–0 to adopt a total tax rate of $1.15 for the 2025–26 year following a public hearing and presentation on the district budget and tax-rate calculations.

Dr. Daniel Combs, who led the district’s budget and tax-rate public hearing, told trustees the board previously adopted a $391,000,000 operating budget in June and that state actions this spring changed some of the metrics used to calculate local rates. “Our preliminary rating is a superior rating with a score of a 98 out of a 100,” Dr. Combs said, citing a preliminary Texas Education Agency financial rating. He said the state issued guidance to districts to prepare tax notices as if a newly passed homestead-exemption law were already in effect.

The district’s published component rates are a maintenance-and-operations rate of 0.7552 and an interest-and-sinking rate of 0.3948, producing the $1.15 total. Dr. Combs said the proposed rate “is consistent with that commitment to the community and a 2¢ reduction over the prior year’s…