001taper public hearing for the Southside Independent School District on Wednesday March 26 2025th uh please let the record show that there is a Corum present just here on is present Mrs faras pres Mrs olivarez pres Mrs Morales Garcia Salazar present Mrs Silva present Mrs S robes present the time is now 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday March 26 2025 as president I Jesse Hernandez call this public hearing of the site Independent School District Board of Trustees to order at this time I would like to welcome Mrs Lisa El salar to welcome our visitors and guests welcome everyone for joining us on this wet evening we appreciate you for taking the time to join us thank you thank you please note that this meeting is being held and has been posted in accordance with government code chapter 551
002the state of Texas open meetings act at this time uh we do not have any um one that has signed up for public comment uh so we will move on to our third item which is our presentation on conduct a public hearing to discuss Texas Academic performance report taper superintendent AMZ good evening Board of Trustees staff and Community we have a presentation on the Texas Academic performance report the taper report which is the district's report card of the student performance and District's demographics with the presentation we have our assistant superintendent for elementary and our assistant superint attended for secondary secondary Dr Spore Mr Castile good evening welcome Dr Spore Mr Castile good evening we are here as as you just heard uh to present to you board members in our community our annual report of
003the district and this report has eight sections that we will briefly go over it includes the taper report the Texas Academic performance report please not this is for the 2324 school year so this is last year's data it is included for the district and each campus has its own report that is also posted we have included in the annual report the pe's financials these are a lag year so if last year's reporting the lag year is the the year before that so those are for the 2223 Financial actuals those are also available for the district and for each campus it includes our district accreditation status for La of the 2223 school year because it has lag your data we'll also discuss campus performance objectives the report on violent or criminal incidents on campuses student performance
004in post-secondary institutions and that of course would only be for our High School progress towards our board adopted House Bill three goals those are for the district and for each campus in the district and the last piece of the required annual report is the taper glossery and it will be posted to our District's website after this um public hearing and the it is listed under our required postings on our district website and the uh Texas ecademic performance report also known as a taper is compiled by the TAA from two subsets of information one the PS that's our information uh management system and student assessment data how they did in the star and the EOC the taper is published in a uh PDF format it's digitally published and it provides a wider range of information uh
005on performance of the performance of students for both the district and the campus within the state performance is shown um by student groups and it provides extensive information on school and District staff programs and student demographics the taper report has a cover page uh and it typically includes the uh campus name and number and the cover page also includes three things the accountability rating the special ed determination status and distinction designations if earned so do note that as of December of 2024 the taper report does not provide the a through have uh ratings or any distinction designations so the the first piece of this uh talks about our star performance and our EOC performance and so you can see that it talks about all three performance rates the approaches the meets and the Masters and
006you can see here we have for all subjects approaches meets and Masters approaches is everything passing so it includes meets and Masters meets also includes the Masters so it is layered kids count multiple times and you can see that it will be reported out for each assessment that we go over it will it will go over those areas this also covers all grades all subjects it breaks it down what we're showing you is just a sample here you'll also see that it is by grade enrolled when they talk about the test again the tests cover third through e8th grade for the star test and then the end of course are for the high school credit courses at meets and Masters so looking at how we did you can see that we have two years of
007data 2023 and 2024 uh we have the district we have the region and the state so looking at the Bold is uh the current year for our district we um dropped by one point on approaches but you can see the region dropped at two the state dropped at one we are held at meets but the state and the uh region both dropped and we improved in Masters and the state and the region held so putting it into context you can see how close we are to meeting at the state and the region in all three of those areas so that's something to be very proud of the second section of the taper report talks about School progress so School progress is where on accountability we talk about domain two and in School progress we have
008two different pieces we have annual growth and annual growth is by grade and subject of assessment we talk about fourth grade through 8th grade and English 1 and two for reading and for math fourth through 8th grade and Algebra 1 for the eoc's so how did a student do from fourth to fifth grade math to math reading to reading and accelerated learning is another piece of growth and that is where we're looking at the students who did not pass did they then pass so HB 4545 gives us the mandate to provide accelerated learning or tutoring for students who are not successful so this is how they're capturing that and measuring that as something called 4545 performance and again it's reading and math 4 through eight plus the eoc's and those together will give us something
009called academic growth not to be confused with annual growth and that's a combination of those two again that's used for accountability which we don't have ratings for so just know that they've broken it out and once we do get ratings they'll pull everything together to give us an ABCD but what you can see here is how did we grow so overall our district grew by two points and you can see the state and the region they were flat you can see that all grad reading we grew and all grades math we barely dropped but we were so far ahead of everybody in math that we still with a two-point drop are significantly higher than the region and the state so we're very proud to see that we're closing those gaps with the region in the
010state and that our students still grew with new tests harder tests and they continue to grow on the taper it also discusses bilingual education and bilingual education is um disaggregated data and we have students who are identified as um emergent bilinguals participating in our bilingual education program which for us is the Dual language program or through ESL which is English as a second language so how they are identified then they pull those tests for those students and you can see that here we will have Star Performance and growth so on the left hand side in the color you can see that is performance approaches and above meets and above and the master level again 2 years District region State and you can see that we are right there with them again approaches and above everybody
011in the state the region and our district dropped we only dropped one point as opposed to the two for the region however we did improve in meets and we improved in Masters and that was something that they were not able to do at the state and the region level so we're very proud of that if you look on the other side for growth again we have growth and accelerated learning I just gave you a snapshot of growth in the report you get all of the tables but you can see that they mirror our general population so again they had growth in both subjects we had growth in reading and we had a slight drop in math again those numbers are higher than the region and the state for math we are right in line with
012both subjects just a a hair underneath there for reading so in the annual report does also provide uh student participation in Star so uh the report does have uh information of the uh assessment participation and uh those not tested for the uh 23 24 school year we had a uh an assessment participation of 99% uh out of that 99% 89% was included in accountability that's snapshot those that were here the last week of October so we also have a uh 7% uh of our student population who are highly mobile and then we have a 2% that are other only 1% of our students did not test the annual annual report also provides information on attendance rate graduation rate and dropout rate so for the 2020 uh 2223 school year we had a attendance rate of
013a 9.10% and then we had a graduation rate of a 93.3 30% which is above the region and right on par with the state we actually had a drop in dropout rate which is a good thing we want a lower dropout rate so if you look at the region and the state the region was at a 2.7 and the state was at a 2.0 we were at a 1.5 uh the annual report also provides a graduate profile for the 2223 three graduates there was a total of 381 graduates and they had four uh uh sub uh ethnic uh groups they were Hispanic white African-American and Asian uh we also have graduate subpopulations again those are the ones that are looked at uh for domain three we have special education economically disadvantaged emergent bilingual at risk
014and students who are considered to be career technology completers now for the exception of special ed if you look at all those the economically disadvantaged emergent bilingual at risk and CTE computers we are uh above the state average the annual report also has uh measurements on our ccmr that's our college career and Military Readiness for the 2223 school year we were at an 84.2% which is significantly significantly higher than the region and way above the state as well so uh under that uh uh big umbrella we also have uh percentages for associates degrees dual credit course completion career or military ready and students who earned uh or obtained An approved industry-based certification so if you look at all those uh uh subgroups uh for associates degrees we had in the 2223 school year 12.9% of
015our students received an associate degree look at the region and the state there are a 2.0 and a 2.5 dual credit course completion we were at a 23.4 above the uh region and right on par with the State Career or military Readiness 62.9% that's way above the region and way above the state as well students earning An approved industry based certification uh was at a 62.5 if you look at the region they were at 25.7% and the state was at a 33.4% and here's where we get to the demographic section they look at students and the programs that support them they also look at our staff the interesting thing here is kind of comparing to the state not so much for the numbers but you look at the percents and you know mail female fine
016but then you can see our ethnicity groups are our big three then the program information how many of our students are identified and served through special education emergent bilingual services and how those might differ from the state if you look at staff um here you can see the the district versus the state and one of the things that's that's really kind of a neat thing to see is that we have a higher minority student population and we also have a much higher minity uh staff population which is really desirable for the kids to see you know role models that they recognize and so that's that's a kudos to this District you can also see look in the middle the majority of our teachers are experienced between 11 and 20 years that says an awful lot
017especially when we only have 2% of our teachers counted as very beginning teachers that that is a significant role in our in our Student Success that we have teachers who are veteran teachers in front of our students stents you can also see that our teachers average six years in the district that's a great sign and of course we do pay higher than the state and our turnover rate is significantly lower than the state those are all quality measures of of a District's Health that we're really proud to see so that finishes section one and that's all about the tests the demographics how did we do from that last school year section two is the pe's financial standards again this is for now the 222 Three Financial actuals those are even a year behind and we'll
018have hyperlink here when this goes up to the website and you can pull up the district actuals and you can pull them up by campus and that will let folks see the total of the revenues expenditures dispersements tax rates all of the different financials that have to do with the district and at a campus level section three is our district accreditation status and each year the agency will assign one of four levels of accreditation accredited is the highest and that goes all the way down to revoked at a level four um tea has not issued those statuses for that 23 24 school year because of the a through F ratings so what they have said is that what we will include here is our 2223 status so if you look down at the bottom we
019list in the box that our 2223 accreditation status is the highest it is accredited we do not expect that to change once they do release the the newer ratings um another piece of it is they look at when they're considering these ratings our academic accountability ratings our financial accountability ratings The Integrity of our data and any program uh area deficiencies through the RDA and when we talk about RDA that's when we come to you for the plan for special education bilingual education or those students who are consider considered to be homeless and um at risk in that way homeless and Foster so our first rating for The District yay is an a superior rating for 2023 our accountability rating which we get to pull here is a b and we are accredited so we have
020very very high marks overall for the district in that section three section four talks about campus performance objectives and campus Improvement plans include all of those objectives so every campus develops and implements a CIP a campus Improvement plan as required by Education Code each Improvement plan has performance objectives so here's our goal here's our objective how we're going to reach that you as a board have approved that in the fall at the beginning of the school year and the campuses then go through and they do a periodic check how are we going towards meeting our goals our goals are tied to the money that we put to the goals the time the effort making sure that what we are doing is going to help advances towards our goals and so we will take a measure
021of that twice during the school year and then at the very end of the year we'll say did we meet our goals or not and how do we need to make any changes so our updated campus Improvement plans again this is from last year not this current year those are final and they're closed off but they are available for review on the district's website and if anybody is interested our current campus Improvement plans are also posted on the district website but know that those are static pictures of a living document so we update those pictures periodically it may not show that we had our midyear review but those have been done we just we we are only required to post them when we are finished with the school year section five Mr casle section five
022uh is uh has us where we report any violent or criminal incidents the Ann annual report requires us to do so so in the report uh a number of different things are included the number rate types of violent or criminal incidents uh the the uh descriptions of school uh prevention or intervention uh and any findings if any uh conducted under the safe and uh uh drug-free schools communities act we're happy to announce and and and say that at this point there time there are no findings that would warrant any of our Southside ISD campuses uh to be identified as an unsafe school and it is linked and it is linked section six uh deals with student performance in postsecondary institutions so the most current report is for the 2122 high school graduates and they look
023at student performance uh measured by GPA earned in the 2122 school year now that this report is uh generated and provided by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board so they look at any university community college or technical school in the state of Texas only so for each student a great point and college L uh semester hours are taken into account that are earned in the fall of 22 spring of 23 and summer of 23 as well section seven is our progress and each campus's progress towards meeting the board adopted House Bill three goals House Bill 3 requires us to look uh very closely at third grade reading math and our Career College military Readiness so all of those things that are not a star tests that can be overlooked um are required for the board
024to have goals so our board has set some rigorous goals with progress measures from kindergarten in first and second grade to help us meet those third grade reading and math goals and then the different measures that help us achieve the designation of Readiness in College and Career military those happen to do with industry based certifications dual credit and Associates degrees so as we mentioned before how we saw Improvement in those part of that is because we have goals for those part of that where you saw that our students were improving in reading and math it's because we have goals that help us get towards there in first and second grade so all of these progressor measures we report out to the board those are available on our district website so we're not giving you a
025report on those but know that the these are the goals and the reports are there for them so that is the meat of the annual report the last section is the glossery which uh tea very helpfully includes for everybody again all of these are hyperlink so folks who want to to see them don't have to go search just click on that that Blue Link and it will take you to the glossery the nice thing about the glossery is it will explain things like when we said ccmr and tpr and CIP and dip it'll explain all of those in there so sometimes it's just a nice thing to have when you're looking for anything to do with schools and it will also explain how they calculate some of those well how did you come up with
026all students reading in math and progress and that they'll they'll get into the weeds of that so the glossery is available in English and in Spanish um for folks who might like that and finally if anybody has any questions please know within two weeks by Statute this must be posted on the district's website and it will be under those required postings we'll get that up probably tomorrow actually if anybody would like a paper copy just request and we will print one out for you and if you have any questions here's the contact information for both myself and Mr Castillo great thank you any questions for Mr Castillo drore so I'll just I'll just have a comment um thank you for for presenting this information I know there's a lot of good work that everybody's been
027doing and it's great to see uh the positive uptakes on a couple of things right to to work on but it wouldn't be the great School District that we are we didn't have those and always looking to to improve and get better but definitely everything's moving in the right direction so thank you very much for that um my only other ask would be as we have um upcoming Community meetings and maybe we can take a cliff notes version of a two three minute slide of this and share with the community I'm sure folks are probably still getting home from work so probably won't be able to see it here tonight uh but in future Community meetings and then the links right to the for Whoever likes to do some late night reading they can definitely
028dive into the detail if they want to but we can we can have one pagers to pass out with the highlights that have little QR codes on the back they pop it with their phone and it's all right there I love that great idea absolutely we can do that I mean this is this is a talking point because these are based on on board goals on District goals on all the work we've done and it is it allows you to kind of look back on it because it is a year old but you can see the progress over the years and like I said as long as we're moving in the right direction we know we're going to hit our goals and just to know that it it is it is nice to see from
0292019 where we are now 5 years later pandemic included um to see that that the students are doing so very well and that's thanks to to your leadership and and ensuring that we stay on track with this it goes with a lot of hard work from from yall and the entire thank you all nicely done appreciate it thank you sir thank you okay so that will conclude our uh presentation for today so I will go ahead and make a motion to adjourn do I have a second this Lisa salar makes a second all in favor say I I okay the time is now 5:54 p.m. and we are adjourned and we will follow up at 6 p.m. for our meeting thanks everyone e e [Music] school district for all in San Antonio Texas students achieving
030Excellence for H and Fa supporting Student Success in school and life is driven by the teamk of our teachers staff superintendent andard of Trustees is successful and to new levels okay good evening everyone and welcome to this regular Cod schol War meeting of the Southside Independent School District for Wednesday March 26 2025th please let the record show that there is a quorum present Jesse herandez present Mrs faras present Mrs olivarez present Mrs Morales Garcia Mrs Salazar here Mrs Silva present Mrs shanas present the time is now 6:01 p.m. on Wednesday March 26 2025 as president I justess hernandz call this regular meeting of the Southside Independent School District Board of Trustees to order at this time I'd like to welcome uh Miss Lisa El Salasar to welcome our visitors and guests welcome and thank you
031for taking the time and joining us this evening we are glad you are here whether in person or online while we celebrate our students staff and data within our district also I'd like to to take this time to say happy birthday to our colleague Miss anger robbles thank you thank [Applause] you thank you Mrs tesar and um something new that we're going to be doing uh moving forward is also covering our mission and vision statement at this time I would also once again like to invite M salar to go over those with us thank you our mission Southside ISD seeks to be the choice when it comes to providing a quality public education by upholding the highest standards of our core values our vision Southside ISD will lead educational Excellence by providing Innovative programs thank
032you Mr Salasar please note that this meeting is being held and has been posted in accordance with government code chapter 551 state of Texas open meetings Act if during the course of this meeting the board should determine that a closer executive meeting or session of the local board is required then such closer executive meeting or session can be held as authorized by the Texas open meetings act Texas government code 551 at this time uh if we can please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and I'd like to welcome uh Miss G Johnson to lead us in the pledge as soon as the colors are presented Mark I pledge allegiance flag of the United States of America and to theic for which it stands one nation under God risible with liberty and justice for all close
033Mark time Mark for Mark thank you to miss Johnson and to the team uh at this time we do not have any public comment uh 2% today uh so we'll move on to our item number four uh which is our consent agenda um please know that the following items make up the consent agenda which consist of routine and non-controversial matters that will be approved with a single vote unless a member of the board requests a separate discussion on a specific item trustees have had the opportunity to report to review all supporting documents related to these items prior to this meeting at this time do I have a motion for consent for approval of consent agenda items a through C I'll make okay I'll make a motion to approve consent agenda a through C I'll second
034okay uh Mrs uh Salasar makes the motion Mrs Faria second M faras yes Olivares yes Morales Garcia Sal yes Mr Silva yes m s robes yes nandes yes motion carries uh moving on to item five with presentations and information uh first presentation campus student VIP Award winner superintendent sir board president to recognize our outstanding students who have gone above and beyond in their grades attendance and conduct we have M Ron and misso good evening Miss Ron misso good evening good evening Mr President Board of Trustees happy birthday Miss Mar bille roess and hello Mr superintendent our community members and parents and audience here thank you so much for the opportunity for us to present our next class of VIPs we only have two more after this and so as the year progresses we're just getting
035more and more excited about presenting all of our kiddos the VIP initiative is a collaborative between the student services and Communications Department it is a districtwide initiative it was developed as a way to recognize our students for demonstrating districtwide behavioral expectations our VIPs are nominated and selected by campus leadership teams and the way that they are selected is based off their behavior their attendance and their academic performance and overall Spirit of being a Southside Cardinal and without further Ado I'd like to introduce Miss Alejandra gyo so that she can introduce each of the VIPs good evening good evening so this month's Cardinal VIPs are for menaka we have Jolie [Applause] Sanchez for Freedom we have Gabriel paa for Gallardo we have Tessa Flores [Applause] for Heritage we have Camila Gara for Pierce we have Timothy
036[Applause] Benes for Lya we have Adelina [Applause] Kelly for Matthew we have Devin [Applause] Bice and for the high school we have Kiera Johnson [Applause] all right [Music] two excellent now parents please take your pictures congratulations good job great job [Applause] guys thank you k okay moving on to our next presentation of the Southside High School band student superintendent sir board president the high school band had an excellent showing at the solo and Ensemble contest qualifying for state with a presentation we have the high school band director Mr MLL and we have Mr Swanner here as well woo good evening gentlemen [Applause] welcome start a second one [Music] keep scooting down a little more okay good evening Schoolboard members administrators family community thank you for inviting us here tonight a few weeks ago we had
037the solo and Ensemble UIL contest that we hosted at South side uh and we're happy to report that we had 55 students earning first division Superior medals out of our group including 23 students qualifying for the state solo and Ensemble contest that'll be up in Austin over the Memorial Day weekend in May so i' I'd like to thank you for inviting us tonight to recognize these students uh we've got a wide variety of students here I'm going to read quickly uh the bronze medal solos that's an introductory difficulty we had Kayla samaron Xavier Fus Mia Ruiz Maria mosa Anna Herrera Hayden wrist Miranda Tes Ortega Gregory lacki Ethan Alan sashenka Vasquez Benitas Khloe alterer Richard Mera Nicholas Morales and Christopher Serta silver medal solos which is an intermediate difficulty we had Bella Lopez Gian Trio
038Edgar Garcia can you move Mr Swanner thank you Noah Flores David Lopez Christopher Adams Roberto Calderon Pearl Ager Leo Maldonado and Joseph jacobo and the gold medal solos which is an advanced difficulty uh Natalie randone Alex Gonzalez Mar bime Jorge Garcia Aiden Ramirez uh Andrew ranel Renee Rodriguez maavan Flores Christopher Munoz Adam conus and Nathan Hudson and you notice the aster by the students in solos that qualified for State Sol emble contest that means they did the highest level of difficulty solo and they performed it memorized getting a first division rating on that so there was all of our soloists then we also had a few small ensembles earned first division medals a trumpet Trio including Brooklyn Simonson Christopher Adams and Roberto Calderon and then the gold medal highest difficulty ensembles all of these students
039qualified to go to state Solen Ensemble contest we had a trumpet quartet that included Alexander Garcia tonan Ruiz Melody Reyes and Leo kavos we had a trombone quintet that inced Aiden Ramirez Nicholas Coronado Marcos Garcia Hernandez Joseph yakobo and Ethan [Music] Dillard and we had our Varsity percussion Ensemble which included Nathan Hudson jessing Garcia Andrew ronel Adam contas Charlie Decker Caitlyn olivo Renee Rodriguez and Christopher Munos we're going to take a sec uh distribute medals to these students uh again thank you for having us here and congratulations to all these students uh and thank you to the uh directors that help me in teaching these students uh Mr Swanner and Mr Solis and started for most of them with great instruction at our two middle school band programs give us a sec here we get
040the medals out to the students way to go [Music] [Applause] around we where [Music] here congratulations soloy silo great job guys thank you very much sir come on you're better dressed than come everybody look at me all right big smiles on three one two smile smile all right go Cardinal go Cardinal all I think I got congratulations here we congratulations guys good job you guys congratulations back was I res my comment oh it [Music] work all right congratulations to our band okay moving on to our next presentation um on the success of the U guitar and K hunto students superintendent Mr Bo president the kjun competed in the U solo Ensemble contest earning a first division medal we have Miss Anna buam with a presentation good evening Miss Bustamante welcome thank you do both okay
041they can wait okay good evening board president Mr Hernandez board member superintend Ramirez board uh administrators and community members my name is Anna Bustamante and I have the privilege of serving as the Director of the high school Mariachi gunto and the high school classical guitar Ensemble and thank you for the opportunity to recognize the students um oh I have where's the clicker this one which one advances it this way the one on the right okay um this marks the third year that my guitar students have participated in UIL solo and emble contest and all the students have performed in trios and I'm proud to share that 15 of my students received a first division rating and I had some pictures the um receiving a first division in in class three category is Simon Caron Simon
042um Juan Al lanise Jonathan James Damen compos and Andrea Toad and there are some students who didn't weren't here Jared Benavides and Ryan Garcia in and then here for the second year in a row these boys performed a class one Trio earning a first division rating and once again qualifying for the state UIL contest in Austin and this is Jesus loada uh Diego Cortez and Damen compos and Damian has the has the uh is the third time he's he has participated in Guitar U solo and Ensemble as he started as a sophomore and Junior and now as a senior and and now please welcome cunto cardinales which are the boys in the red jackets and uh due to the let me see here we are due to to a lack of formal category for this
043type of group they competed in the category called experimental medium Ensemble UIL requires that competing groups provide notated music you know written music in order to to participate and it posed a challenge since none is available for kto so however I was able to have the music written and notated allowing our students to make salside ISD history by being the first to compete in UIL soul and Ensemble and earning a first division medal which they are winning and I'll introduce them oio Ortiz Juan Rodriguez Aiden Valderas Carlos Torres Jose Janes and then Fidel masas who is not who's at a golf tournament right now thank [Applause] you the group The kto will travel to Laur Brownsville's kto contest next Saturday the following Saturday compete against 13 Varsity High School K hunto groups in in that
044of courses in Brownsville and even though like in to finish um in conclusion while directing three ensembles is very challenging for me I still strive to inspire my students and offer them these these type of unique musical opportunities they might not otherwise experience because they might not wish to be in other traditional music programs so thank you for your time I appreciate your support and hope you will continue funding my program and our music department so we can keep empowering our students to thrive through music thank you very [Applause] much yes two smile nice excellent congratulations good [Applause] job great job guys great job congratulations I don't know they sound fantastic I got to come check out my one name okay moving on to our next uh presentation which is the recognition of the Heritage
045Elementary as an honoral school by the Erp superintendent Mr Bo president one of our campuses was named an honoral campus for attaining high State assessment scores for all students and subgroup populations with the presentation we have Dr sport welcome again Dr Spore thank you Mr ananas board president members of the board Mr rinz Community it is with great pride and pleasure that we recognize Heritage Elementary and if I could have Miss T Bernal come up and represent Heritage please to receive this and I'll tell you a little bit about the [Music] award you have to hold this so I can read so the annual honor role is presented by educational results partnership or Erp and it's a part of their national campaign for business and education Excellence this campaign engages Business Leaders in recognizing successful
046schools and systems that prepare students with the fundamental skills needed to be successful in the workforce and in life for 10 years Erp has presented the honor role the only School recognition program presented in partnership with state and local Business Leaders using objective student achievement data as the Criterion for recognition the goal of the honor role is to find and highlight successful schools and districts and encourage collaboration among Educators on best practices for raising student achievement approximately 12% of eligible schools and 9% of eligible districts made the Texas honor roll list in 2024 so our own Heritage is one of 12% in the entire state of Texas honor rooll schools were comprehensively higher performing on the star the state assessment of academic Readiness in Reading language arts and math assessments compared to cohorts of students
047and population serves and we recognize them for improving outcomes for our historically underserved student populations so in order to make this honor role Heritage had to have a comprehensively performed above the mean the trend line of at least 80% of the time for all cohorts and students so it was a very scientifically based strictly on their star scores and so we want to recognize Heritage Elementary for making this honor walk congratulations [Music] congratulations need Wheels congratulations okay moving on to our next presentation which is the recognition of the Freedom Elementary as a finalist in the read to the Final Four challenge superintendent Mr board president 300 schools in the San Antonio area competed on Whose third graders read the most four schools remain in the read to the Final Four challenge and our very own
048Freedom Elementary is one of the four for the presentation we have Dr sport welcome again Dr sport thank you again another great fun thing to recognize Freedom Elementry so come on up miss pente the read to the final four is held in conjunction with the NCAA men's basketball Final Four which San Antonio is proud to host again and so they invited third graders across the region to participate in this and I would like to thank our board for pushing us to do this uh it was at your encouragement that we entered and sure enough now we have a finalist out of 304 third graders third grade uh District campuses they're one of the final four and listen to this these kids read third graders mind you third graders read 1,643 3 38 minutes since October
04917th so they read it they logged it they've had fun we got to go have a great pep rally at Freedom with Mr ramz getting to announce they made it to the Elite 8 so that made it to the website so if you check out the the NCAA Final Four in San Antonio the read to the final four you'll see that and on April 4th uh Miss pente and her team we get to take some third graders down to the Henry B Gonzalez and be a part of the big celebration we'll find out uh which team actually read the most and up for grabs is a $5,000 Library makeover and bragging rights but regardless they made it to the final four and we are just so very very very proud of them and we look
050forward to watching them uh on April 4th uh on TV they're going to have TV there and so so look for them to be big celebrities at our at our final for yes ma'am I skip the gy today congratulations no pressure [Laughter] right all right uh moving on to our monthly review of the financial statements for February 2025 superintendent so Bo president you give an update on the finances for February we have Mr Michael caralis good evening Mr cares welcome good evening president ernandes superintendent AMZ members of the board usually I'm like item X Y or Z and I'm F and they're usually yelling at me to hurry up y'all don't hear them but they do the only stand between them and them leaving going definitely not an F in financials so we um before
051I get into the the monthly reports right now I'm just kind of quick quick quick update because we've had a budget workshop on the 25 26 budget um that that's moving uh a little slower than last year for sure due to the legislative session and we're trying to see incorporate as much information from from the legislature as as we can into the budget um at some point um we we will have to move forward with the amount of information that we have they do um last day of session I think is June 2nd um so that that'll be the day hopefully we know everything of course last time they had four special sessions so they it didn't end so um we'll take what information we can just giving you an update kind of kind of
052it's moving a little slower so we we hoping they don't have to do it twice or or or move too much around after after what they we get back from from the from the bills that are passed um our current situation if um if if I was a glass half full person which everybody knows I'm not um laugh funny it would the the reports are looking are looking really really good right now um I'm going to just go through a little more once I'm only F so I'm going to take a little longer they're going to beat me up in the parking lot but um we have $40 million on the first general fund Revenue here the total total revenue there is 41 million out of the $71 million so we can see Revenue this
053number on this report though is is one of the most subjective numbers we actually see in the reporting and that's because the state pays US based off a guess um we're guessing how many students going to have we're going to guessing on the average daily attendance and we're guessing on property tax collection so everything when they start paying us at the beginning of the year is a guess so the state revenue number is the most difficult number to to actually we'll have a settle up now what we do is we make sure we just budget the correct amount so regardless of what they're paying us we'll either pay them back some money at the end of the year or we'll we'll book a receivable where the state owes some additional Revenue but um we we
054continue to collect revenue and it's it's um it that that's a good number if you look at the total expenditures where we have a $71 million on the expenditure side we've gone six months through the year so if you were to say okay we've gone six months through the year we have a $71 million budget so $35.5 million is half of that we can see some pretty basic math right there the see okay 71 million we've gone 6 months half of the way what does it look like right now so so we can see that we we've gone a little bit over that by design that should be a good good thing once again everybody knows we want to get the kids everything at the beginning of the year and and that's the reason we
055want to see a larger number uh more than half right now we want to make sure that uh everything has been bought for the kids it's been used I think we're what 10 days away from testing 5 10 10 days nine n 10 nine 10 days we we're we're there so so hopefully we've bought the kids everything they've need up front right now and we're done spending um from the campus side so anyway once again it it's very possible to look at that report and say okay well we're we're pretty much on track right where we want to be what makes this difficult is the $71 million revenue is going to be very difficult number we've had that conversation before it's going to be very difficult to get to the maximum $71 million um the
056other thing is um just the amount of time I've had in District um there's a comfort level that doesn't exist yet so say what's coming up six months down the year what comes up in summer what do we still have going on right now so um there there's still a very uncomfortable um feeling about this but these are real numbers and and that's that's where we're at on the general fund moving on Child Nutrition we can say the same thing um we have we have8 $8.6 million of Revenue and we have 4.6 of Revenue on the Food Service that has come in um same thing halfway through the month now we don't feed two months out of the year so there's kind of two or three months where we don't have that so it's not
057quite a six-month process but we can still see that revenue is coming in um at 4.6 million through through this part of the year uh 9.6 the same way um 4.8 million so so we're at 4. million exactly on our expenditure side there so um we spent six months on the Food Service side um we do have a a very healthy um fund balance on the Child Nutrition side and we're trying to spend that money down um so so anyway we we also uh $200,000 a little bit more on the expenditure side than the revenue and and that's on purpose and we've had those conversations before moving on to the last report is The Debt Service and we can see there that our our total revenue is 6.6 million and and we've received 6.8 million
058that comes in um there's only one state payment and that's at $1 million that's already arrived so this on on The Debt Service side the the state payments don't trickle in yearly like like the general operating which was the first report that we looked at um and we can see we've already generated once again on this we expected that to exceed the revenue and whatever we have additional we'll work on paying off some debt early with that um six 6. uh6 million of expenditures and we've paid $2 million um that was our February payment we talked about saying very very little activity on the expenditure side here um we made our February payment and we'll make our August payment um which we already know which will be so we'll be able to calculate um how
059much revenue we have at a certain time bring financial advisers back and actually pay off some some debt with what we have in fund balance or savings so um that's kind of the financial update for February thank you Mr cares any questions for Mr cares we you get them home okay no questions thank you all right okay uh today we will not uh be going into close meeting and in the interest of trying to get Mr Ang to go celebrate her birthday uh I will make a motion to adjourn do I have a second second Miss alisar second all in favor say I hi okay and we are at 6:36 p.m. and we are adjourned it's going to rain a whole lot everyone please be safe for the next 24 hours