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College Station ISD discusses opening controlled interdistrict transfers to address enrollment shortfall
Summary
District administrators proposed a controlled out-of-district transfer program (not open enrollment) to offset a roughly 300-student budget shortfall; trustees raised staffing, special-education and equity concerns and asked administration to return with policy language and capacity analysis.
At the Oct. 21 workshop, administration presented proposed edits to FDA Local (the district's interdistrict transfer policy) and asked the board for feedback on whether to pursue a controlled transfer program.
Speaker 5 told trustees the district is "about 300 kids less than what we budgeted for, which is a little over $2,000,000," and framed a controlled-transfer option as a way to fill available capacity at several campuses. The administration emphasized this would not be open enrollment; instead, it proposed an application process with thresholds (examples given: grades, discipline counts, attendance, assessment scores), a review team to categorize applicants as qualifying or not qualifying, and…
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