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Rockdale ISD cites year-end deficit driven by academy construction, property-value shifts and enrollment drop
Summary
District officials told the board the 2025–26 year-end budget projects a deficit linked mainly to College & Career Academy construction; officials said fund balance would be used and cited decreased state aid tied to property-value metrics and an enrollment decline.
Business Manager Rebecca King and Superintendent Dr. Michael Watson told the Rockdale ISD Board of Trustees that the district projects a year-end deficit for 2025–26 that is driven primarily by costs related to construction of the College & Career Academy.
King and Watson also identified three further contributors to the shortfall: decreased state aid attributed to discrepancies between the district's property values and comptroller metrics; unrecouped frozen levy-settle-up losses that the administration expects to recover next year; and an enrollment decline between the initial PEIMS snapshot and the final day of school. The minutes do not record an exact dollar amount for the projected deficit.
Administrators said the district anticipates using fund balance to cover the construction-driven shortfall. The board did not adopt a budget at the workshop; staff said they would refine figures and present a balanced budget for approval at the regular June meeting.
