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College Station ISD adopts 2025–26 tax rate as finance staff warns of lost property value from appeals
Summary
Trustees adopted a 0.9753 property tax rate after a presentation on recent appraisal litigation, homestead exemption changes and potential future impacts to debt service revenue.
College Station Independent School District trustees on Tuesday approved a 2025–26 property tax rate of 0.9753 per $100 of assessed value, after district finance staff described major property-value losses tied to multi-year appraisal appeals and recent state homestead-exemption changes.
Heather, a district finance staff member, told trustees that apartment-valuation litigation filed going back to 2018 settled heavily in 2024 and 2025 and has reduced the district’s taxable value by roughly $164 million in 2024 and about $86 million so far in 2025. “When they all go when they're all settled at one time, it just hits us at one time,” she said. The board heard that those retroactive reductions have reduced…
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