001meeting of the Walks Independent School District Board of Trustees Order. Let the record show that all seven trustees are in attendance and this meeting has been duly called and notice that this meeting has been duly posted for time and manner required by law. At this time, the board's going to convene into close session according to section 551.001 ETSSE of the Texas Government Code. It is now 5:00 Yeah. We'll just wait a few minutes for It is now 6:14. The board's going to reconvene into open session. At this time, I'll ask Mr. Cooper to lead us in our invocation and I will lead us in our pledges of the American and Texas flags. >> Let us pray. Heavenly Father, most gracious atoning God, God of all knowing, all seeing. Father, first of all, we want to
002thank you for this opportunity to serve our students and our school community. Father, you see the many challenges that are being faced in school districts. Father, we ask that you would help us to see the things that need to be seen that we may put our students in positions that they may thrive. We ask that you would uh continue to grace our staff with the grace that is needed to that they may do a exceptional job. And father we just again pray that your hand be upon our school district in Jesus mighty name we pray. Thank God. Amen to the stands nationy and justice for all. One state. Next item on our agenda will be our open forum. At this time, we do not have anyone signed up to speak. So, at this point, we're
003going to go a little bit out of order. We're going to jump down to our action item B which will be consideration with possible action to hire a director of human resources. Miss Burk. Thank you. All right. Good evening board and Miss McCutchen. It's my honor to recommend Derek Zant as the position of as our position of human resources director. Over the course of his career in our district, he served with distinction as a teacher, assistant principal, and principal, gaining valuable experience and a comprehensive understanding of the needs of both students and staff. He's currently pursuing his PHLE certification, which will further enhance his capacity in this role. Perhaps most importantly, Mr. Zant is highly respected across the district for his professionalism, collaborative spirit, and the strong professional and positive relationships he's built with staff
004at every level. I'm confident that his leadership, experience, and commitment will make him an outstanding addition to the HR department and a continued asset to our district. So, at this time, I'd like to recommend Mr. Zant as our HR director. >> Okay. Word. I'll entertain a motion to approve action item B as presented. >> So moved. >> Motion by Mrs. Creel. >> Second by Mrs. Timberman. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. Post say nay. Motion carries 70. Congratulations, Suzanne. [Applause] window. Okay. Every time I got that short FPS. Okay, moving to item five, which will be our report. Report A, which will be our superintendent report. Mr. McCutchen. >> Okay. Good evening board and attendees. Thank you'all for being here. Just a couple of things I wanted to give you an
005update on. Um we have started our fall campus rounds and um changed those up just a little bit. One of the the way we're um I guess these are organized is we're starting with just sharing what my vision is for the district as we move forward. Um giving the campuses a quick update on where we are in Wakahachi Creek High School and then I have asked the staff um in campus specific and department specific um questions via a survey to just give me their discussion topics and what they feel they would like to talk about. So we're spending a lot of time in these campus rounds really just kind of question answer and and really going over the things that are important to them. So the the presentations for each campus might look just a
006little bit different depending on what the feedback is I get from them before the meetings. So um we've had one so far have another one on Friday. Um enrollment wanted to show you where we are on enrollment and our average daily attendance. Of course, we just have our comparison from August 29th to May back to May 2022. And you'll see um enrollment on August 29th was 11,181, average daily attendance of 10,554 and that is at 96.39% attendance. So, I know Mr. Calden would like to see that attendance percentage that high. Um that would really help throughout the school year. So, okay. Um, on my one-on-one meetings, I have committed to uh one-on-one meetings. I've told you all that. Um, I think I'm I've had over 60 at this point. I' I've kind of lost track.
007Um, but I am taking notes and and keeping up with those. And so, that's really helping me with making those one-on-one connections with staff throughout the district and uh really gained some uh deep understanding of our operational processes and then the department and campus knowledge. So, those have been really beneficial. I think I have four left is what Nissa told me. So, that's always those have been really really good. Um, wanted to give you all an update also on WISD 101. So, the 2526 cohort has begun. Um, it's made up of community members, some are parents or family of our students, and we did have 18 that signed up to attend this year. And, um, kudos to Miss Lockidge and Miss Troll for all their work on that. And they'll be held each month at
008a different location. So, our first one was here in the boardroom. Okay. Oops. And also just wanted to give you all a quick update on our principal um focus and DT meetings. Uh we started those a couple weeks ago. We started with principal focus meetings and those were really um where we talked about a lot of different guided um guided updates. We talked about themes um all kinds of operational processes that principles needed an update on. Um, we did spend some time um talking about campus safety and how we were going to be documenting those processes. And then today we had an in-depth legal update from one of our attorneys that went over um a lot of updates from the from the current legislative session and then also their chapter 37 behavior training. So, um
009I I think that those were really beneficial meetings and dates that we got together with principles. And so I know um Mr. Kegel has a meeting coming up on the 17th with the assistant principles to um help them on some guided practices and updates as well. Um does anyone have any questions or any additional Okay. >> All right. Thank you. Oh, sorry. One more. How could I forget? Homecoming. Homecoming is October 10th. There's been some questions about the parade. And so our parade, we are following the same route as we previously have. Now this year the parade is limited to 50 floats. That is a um based off of the approved um city >> by the city. It's been approved by the city for only 50 floats. I know there's been questions about why that's
010only limited to WISD um groups and it's because we already have 42 just WISD floats entered and we know we're going to hit that 50 before too long. And so um really tried to u follow the mandates from the city of Wakahhatche and kudos to all those that are coordinating this. Mr. Kaggel High School, our PR department and athletics, uh Mr. Rogers, and also Mr. Kaggel's administrative assistant, Felicia, who's they're really working hard to make this all um all this organized and the parade that we're used to having. So, October 10th now, I think that's my last slide. Any questions? >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Next item will be our quarterly demographic report. Mr. Colin, >> thanks, sir. Good evening board and Miss McCutchen. Want to uh give you the most
011recent demographics update. This is from the second quarter of 2025. Um it's in pretty much the same format that you're kind of used to seeing. So we'll start with looking at unemployment in the local economy. Uh Ellis County tends to be right in line with DFW, if not a little bit less in terms of total unemployment. uh Ellis County, DFW both um a little bit less than the state of Texas which is enjoying a little bit less unemployment than the country as a whole. Um so good news in terms of uh unemployment rates here in our area. Total housing area or housing activity in our area. You'll see a uh still about 45,000 starts in Q uh 2 2025. uh and the Dallas metroplex area still the largest amount of starts um in that quarter
012and you'll see about a 39% 38% change from uh the number of starts in the second quarter of 2019. Uh so still a very robust housing growth in our uh area the total market area uh as defined by Dallas but uh still healthy uh for all housing. kind of looking at in all of DFW, new home starts and closings. Uh a little bit of an inverse at the moment where we have annual closings exceeding annual housing starts. Uh those numbers are relatively close together. About 2,300 the difference between the closings and starts, but uh it is more in line with with kind of what you would expect even though it is a little bit inverse. uh we're not seeing what we saw back in 2020 2021 where we had such a large delta between starts
013and closings. Overall, looking at the market, the housing market trends in DFW, uh if you're comparing the first two quarters of 24 with the first two quarters of 25, uh we've seen that that sales of homes have slowed down a little bit from where they were to the first two quarters of 24. and the average price of a sale has come down a little bit from where it was uh in the first two quarters of 24. That said, the median price is actually higher in the first two quarters of 25 than it was in 24. So, that sounds like we've got more um more properties maybe of a higher value uh that are selling uh in 25 than were in 24. total listings are up in 25 and the total months of inventory uh on
014the market are also up. So kind of tends to to lead to the conclusion that home prices are up but they're not selling as fast as they were selling roughly a year ago or even years before that. Uh so when we look at just district home stats for our our uh starts and closings uh you'll see a little bit of movement between 2425 uh on the starts and closings within quarter 1 quarter two but we're roughly on pace with where we were last year at about the same point. Uh so we're pretty much in the same ballpark. Our starts are out uh outnumbering our closings through the first two quarters of 25. kind of break this down by elementary zone. You know, every time that we're up here doing these reports, uh you hear me
015tell you that I'm really concerned with those futures. But if you'll look out across the the way, we've got the yellows as the highest activity in that category, the green as the second highest, and then that salmon color as a third highest activity in that category. And you see a concentration generally between Cliff, Shackleford, and Wedgworth as you go across the across the table. Uh but when I look out at the futures, where I'm concerned is that still 13,000 planned futures in that Wedgeworth zone. Uh that that elementary school is not going to contain 13,000 future home sites. Uh so it is a number that we're going to continue to watch. I believe it is down a little bit from uh some of the last quarterly reports that we've been given, but overall total futures
016are up. It it was about 19,000. It's about 21,000 now uh total futures. But a lot of activity underway or planned in the cliff zone in the uh Jimmy Ray zone for futures, Shackleford zone for current activity. Uh and then Wedgeworth current activity and futures. How that looks on our district map. Uh so this is a map of the entire district. The green are active subdivisions where where development is is currently taking place. Yellow is future uh planned development. And then anything that's outlined in red has groundwork underway. So there are 43 active subdivisions at the moment. Uh there are 20 future subdivisions in various stages of planning. Uh of these ground work is underway and more than a thousand lots within 15 different subdivisions. Uh so board you'll see that just about every one
017of our elementary zones is touched by some sort of development planning either current or uh future. And a good bit of those are already underway. So, if we focus in on our top five performing subdivisions, uh we have Dove Hollow that's pretty much straddling the line between Shackleford and uh Simpson zone. I believe it's actually in the Shackleford zone. Uh Symphony Estates and Camden Park that are in the Cliff zone. We have the the end tail end of the North Grove development in the Simpson zone. And then we have Oak Creek Ranch out in the Wedgeworth zone. So, we're seeing that these are the five most active at the moment. And there is a really big uh number of closing differences from the top to the fifth. Uh from Dove Hollow at 176 closings uh
018down to Oak Creek Ranch at about 36. Kind of dive in a little bit to some of these. You see Dove Hollow again that that boundary that school district boundary line between Shackleford and Simpson uh separates essentially right between North Grove and Dove Hollow. uh Dove Hollow, 620 total lots, 240 are vacant, developed at this point. 51 homes are under construction and 312 of those uh 620 lots are already occupied homes. So, we're about halfway through that development cycle for Dove Hollow. They're uh they're moving at a pretty good pace at this point. I anticipate that they will be excuse me running out of lots you know as we keep going uh as they're they're uh making good progress in that development. In North Grove total we had about 1500 total lots 130 future lots.
019194 are vacant developed lots. 27 homes are currently under construction. There's about 1100 homes that are already occupied. So we know that North Grove is toward the latter end of its development phase right now. Uh, a lot of that, uh, tends to be concentrated in the Oaks portion, uh, which is just on the other side of North Gro Boulevard from, uh, where Simpson Elementary and the first couple of phases of North Gro's development were. Uh, looking out over in the cliff zone. Uh, so immediately across Park Schoolhouse Road, we have the Camden Park development, which is about 620 total lots. Uh 450 homes are currently in that development. About 130 vacant lots. Uh so again, a development that's that's about 70% of the way through uh its life of being developed. A lot of homes
020though still to go in Camden Park. And then Symphony Estates, a little bit closer to Turner uh board. You may remember that um previous board, I believe we sold some land that may have turned into this Symphony Estates uh development, but about 127 total lots. Uh 93 homes are currently occupied, 32 vacant lots, and two homes are under construction. So again, a development that is about 75 or so uh percent uh through with its development. Still has a little bit of ways to go, but but they've made some some good progress on those two developments. Look real fast at multifamily uh housing. We saw a major slowdown back in say March of 25 where if you're looking at the chart on the right, your occupancy rates uh were significantly lower in March. Since then they've
021rebounded to roughly uh 86.8% 86.9%. That occupancy is really kind of holding steady uh from where it was about a year ago. So that annual change of about a tenth of 1% down. Uh but you're also seeing the asking rent uh an increase of about one and a half percent of where it was a year ago. Uh and that effective rent again back on the chart on the right you're seeing that effective rent kind of hold steady uh from where it's been back in March. Uh and so relatively uh consistent numbers for multif family housing in terms of occupancy and a little bit of about one and a half% increase uh in that rent uh for multif family units. As a district, there about 4,800 future multif family units in various stages of planning across
022the district. Uh we look at these units generally in the Dunaway and the Wedgeworth zones. Um but really a multif family unit as more and more of these housing developments come in. They really could take place in any zone. These are just kind of the future ones right now uh planned in the district. Didn't talk a lot about enrollment projections in this one. This one uh really was more focused on housing and kind of the housing market around uh the area. This is kind of board what you can expect to see going forward. Uh so the fall reports from demographics are generally going to be more focused on students, student enrollment, student growth uh projections and then in the spring you're going to see more housing and more of those trends uh and put those
023all together for a holistic view. Uh so as a district we still do anticipate uh growth in students uh to about 17,400 students in 203435. It is a long way out. That's 10 years from now. We may hit that sooner. We may hit that a little bit later, but still in a growth trajectory for Wakatchi ISD. Uh and a lot of that is is backed up by the uh housing data that we just presented. With that, that's our demographic report for this quarter. Are there any questions I can answer for you? Thank you, Mr. Colin. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you, sir. >> Report C, informationational bond 2023 construction update. Mr. M. >> Good evening, board. Mr. Cuten, I'm here to give you the September 2025 construction bond update. So, we're going to
024talk about Coleman Junior High, Finland Junior High, Howard Junior High, Wati Creek, and Prop C. We'll start at Coleman. Coleman, we have moved in and finished everything on the warranty side of things. We're just we're just going for those for a year on the warranty. Um, we are still working on the back side, which is the co which is the track and field back there. It has been delayed another month for December 20 25 due to charter cable. We cannot get them. We're still working with them trying to get the cable getting a date from them to remove their fiber lines. We are to a point and you'll see a picture here in a little bit. We're to a point on that is where we can't do pretty much anything else until that that is
025removed. We have a pole sitting right dead middle of lane five of one of the curves and they can't lay asphalt. They can't finish the concrete curve in that area and all that. So, it is literally on them. We have they have they have given us the bill for that. We have sent that check in. They do not take wire. They do not take anything. We had to mail a check to Chicago and it had to go through and be deposited before they'd start the work. All of that has now been done. Now we're just waiting on a time from them. I did reach out again this morning. Haven't heard back as of this meeting starting from them as any dates. I stay on them about every other week or so, every 10 days. I'm
026asking them for dates. So, it is somewhat out of our hands. We've done everything we can and just keep pushing all we can with Charter. Encore did finish everything they've got between their power and their fiber. Finland Junior High. We've moved all in there. Um we're still working on a few items. The cafeteria projector and screen did get put in over the weekend. Um we're looking to have training on it towards the end of the week. We'll have training on the um cafeteria light uh theater lighting and the cafeteria and all that will be training by later in the week as well on the on that project. There's your front picture of I'm sure most of y'all have seen by now the front picture of the building. Here's a few pictures of the inside as
027well, the library and the serving line. If any of y'all have seen that building does look totally different from when Mr. Zant was there, I don't know if you've been there through it. Haven't you haven't been through it yet, but it is a totally different look. for anybody that I didn't get to attend that building but um anybody that did it does look totally different if you did attend that or if you or if you were um administrator or anything else there Howard Junior same thing there is we have um finished all the we're just doing warranty followup there for that areas there um stage lighting in the cafeteria it is due to go up this evening or tomorrow night and then they'll finish it as the cafeteria projector is the same way there and
028then the stage lighting in the drama room it is a midsummer ad. So, it's a little behind. That is something that the drama teacher asked for real late in the summer. So, we added that in for them. So, that is still a little bit behind. We're waiting on that product to actually come in to be able to put it in. It's not affecting them to do anything in the class or anything like that that she just asked for that if we could add that so she could teach them actual the lighting there instead of having to go to the stage all the time where it may be being used by a band or someone else. That is on the cafeteria side. That is a new addition for the cafeteria there. Here there's your picture of
029the cafeteria and the band hall. Um that is before the band hall moved all their um items into the band hall there. Any questions any of those before we go to creek. So walk Creek High School we're about overall if you combine all of them around 85% complete. As you can see the storm is about 90% water is about 80 sewer is 95 and the fire loop's about 80%. on some of those. We're as far as we can go on property, waiting on the city to finalize their sewer lines, waiting on them to finish their water on the front when they can come in where we can connect to it. So, some of those items we cannot do anything until the city finishes their plan andor gets the like the water line across the front.
030It actually gets installed where we have to hook up to where they come. We we'll meet each other. So, some of that is that 80% you probably won't see move for a while because we're just at that. We'll get to about 90 or 95% probably and then it'll just hold until the the city I know they've got the water line out for bid right now. I believe um bids go later this month, come in and open up later this month. Um the sewer has not gone out for bid yet as I talked to him this morning. I'm hope hearing it may go out later this month and then it will start as well. Um, but like the uh storm, we're we're pretty we're finishing that up and then the fire loop is ongoing. We have
031started concrete. We're trying to do three major pores a week. Right now, we haven't got that in two weeks. We haven't gotten three major pores because of rain. The problem we're having with rain is it's making the ground too wet for the concrete trucks to be able to move across the ground and for us to bring 18-wheeler loads of the dry material to go into the batch plant, which is just too wet to do it. We're now compacting that and all that. so we can try to get around it, but we're working all we can to do it. We have poured three slabs of the 18 we have to pour. We've poured uh six of the paving of the 14 we have to pour for all that. Not including parking lots. When I'm saying paving,
032that is just literally fire um fire lane paving. That's what that is. That does not include any parking lots. That's just fire lanes. So as of today, we did get approval from this afternoon, we did get approval from the fire department that we can go vertical with what we have forward. We can go vertical. So we now have the release to start going vertical when steel rides here next week. We can start going vertical. Um the con the crane has been assembled and it was inspected last week. Steel's due to start arriving sometime this week, probably late week. They were really expecting it to start coming in early next week, but they said they may have some pieces come up, start arriving late this week. And then soon as they start it out and shake
033it, they expect to start hanging steel next week. So, it's uh moving along on that side of it is we are performing performing street maintenance out there on Odily Road. As we put mud on the road, they'll they'll use a street sweeper on it. They're putting some gravel along the edges if the 18-wheers are tearing up the edges or something. They're working to do that as much as they can with everything. We are working with Encore and Atmas to go ahead and start getting their lines coming that way, getting the easements across the property and all that. So, we're ahead of that game when it's time. And like I said, you can see there, we're working with Text to finalize the entrance at Highway 77. We have been back and forth, I believe it is
034three times now. They've we've sent them stuff. They sent it back and so we're on the third revision back to them. We'd like to start getting that finished and start work using that entrance as fast as we can. We'd like to start bringing steel in off of 77 to make life a lot easier. So, we're going through that. So there's you a picture of the overall site as you can see there. Um that was actually late last uh early last week. You can see the crane is up. It's not in place at that moment. That is just where they erected it and waited for it. We still had to get geoteex reporting on where they're putting the crane to make sure we have the compaction so that crane doesn't start leaning as it starts to.
035We have to do all the compaction tests and all those kind of things. Go to the next one. You can see here that's a different picture of the view. Now, you can see there, if you see that long white line there, it ties into a gray area. That was last Friday when we were pouring. That was the last, that dark gray you see there. That's the last of the fire lanes that we had to pour to be able to go vertical. That gives us a a temporary entrance off of highway off of Old Italy Road. And then it gets us a temporary over into the fire loop for the front. We're actually going to start about where that crane's tower is is where we're going to start hanging it, hanging steel when we start hanging
036it there. And here's another picture of the other areas you can see throughout. You can see back in that um it's just another view of it. You can see the fire loop right there. And you can see where those three slabs are poured there. We'll start on that front corner which is some of the gen ed and we'll work our way around the area there on if you just kind of make that that L and start going down that side. That's where we're going to start pouring this week. That slab right there. That area right back there is that's the last of the grade beams we're pouring back there and that's all in the athletic area. That's all that's left. And then we'll have all the grade beams formed. Here's some of your asphalt and
037electrical lines you see there. Um, and the leveling of the building because we're doing a lot of uh sealed concrete, you really want the slab to be really flat because then it every when that sun hits it, you'll see every little wave in it. So, it's pretty critical. So, that's why that machine there, it's actually a GPS machine to make it really pure level. So picture there you see A1, A2, A3, and B have all been poured. C is half of that will be poured this week. Long as we get everything poured, it'll be poured Wednesday night um into Thursday morning. So about 2 o'clock Wednesday night, we're pouring half of that and then next half will pour next week. All the gray areas you see like I was just talking about, those are all
038your polished concrete. So the nice thing about that is be mostly polished concrete, very few flooring in the building like um LVT or VCT or anything like that in the building. We will have some carpet areas and a little bit LVT but not very much. Here's your concrete pores you can kind of understand. So that area there in that south paving where it says that loop is all poured and that first purple of east paving has been poured. That is the area that we had to get to come from that purple into that yellow to give us a temporary loop because in long term for them to access the front of that building, they would come off of spur 394 which all of us know it hasn't even started. So for them to be able
039to be able to have access if we have need for them once we go vertical, they'll be coming off of Old Italy Road there. But we've got two more of those east pavings to go this week and then we'll start working our way across. So that pink and the dark brown. Then we'll start working our way across the back and get the west paving as much as we can. The last thing we won't be able to get that pink part of that west paving because right in that circle in that pink part, that's where the bash plant sits. So we won't be able to get it until we're pretty much try to finish with concrete and decide to move the bash plan out. Proposition C, the big things are going on right now in Proposition
040C are Northide and Dunaway playgrounds. Um Dunaway is getting a second playground. They've not had a second playground there, so they're getting a second playground. We're replacing the cover on the first one that had rips, and we're turfing both playgrounds. Um, they should be completed by mid next week at the most. Um, on Dunaway, North Side just started late last week on removing theirs. They're probably about three to four weeks to be full completion between demo and putting everything in. on those two. Um we are finishing the a few badge readers mainly on a lot of the doors that had crash bars like cafeteria's gym and library. Um and then we're continuing to do cafeteria sound upgrades on all elementary campuses. Here's your doneway that was taken this morning. That picture there, that's the rock
041has to go under and the levels they have to do there. That's about a 10 inches of rock they have to put underneath that one to raise it up there. Any questions? Anything for Mr. Mott? Looks like you ought to have plenty of dry weather in the next few weeks. So, that's what we're hoping. We're hoping. >> All right. Our last report will be ourformational, excuse me, our informationational report at WISD's balance scorecard priority 1.1 and 1.2 2025 TEA accountability ratings. Miss Sil, are you doing this by yourself? >> Part of it I am. And then Mr. Kegle and Miss Robinson are going to come up. So yeah, I'm going to hit the first part. So good evening board and Miss McCutchen. It's always a pleasure to come and talk to you'all about a little
042data and some accountability. So we're going to jump right into this. Um A throughF accountability, just to give you a little background history. Uh AF accountability, I get kind of frustrated when scores come out and people think it's really simple. Oh, it's all about star scores. It's much more complex than that. a manual for our accountability is 271 pages that we have to get through and figure out kind of how it all works. The way the state runs things is they change accountability cycle every five years. And so we're in the fourth year of a of a fiveyear cycle. You remember me talking to you before about how we had STAR 1.0. Star 1.0 was all multiple choice questions. Star 2.0 in the accountability cycle that we're in right now much more rigorous. only 75%
043of those points can come from multiple choice. So, a lot more difficult test. Um, and now we're going into listen to legislation. We're going to go into a new cycle in two more years which they're talking about uh the new star per se. They just put a new name on it which talks about growth. And so, within that, you would have a beginning of the year, a middle of the year, and also an end of the year. And so, really what I want to tell you is there's a lot more to this when than we're just looking at star scores. Um and and so just to give you a little little background history on that. So let's go ahead and jump right in. State is really um want you to see the the the results
044of school districts or of campuses. So you can go to this texaschools.gov. You can look up any campus or any school district in the state of Texas uh to see how their ratings are or more information about them. So jumping in, remember I told you this part's 271 pages, but I'm going to do it in a nutshell saying it it falls into three domains. Domain one is student achievement. All about star scores. You see that domain two there? It falls into two parts, an A and a B. Talks about growth and it talks about relative performance. And we're going to hit that up a little bit more. And then there's domain three and you get to take take the higher of those two, which counts 70% of your overall rating. 30% comes from closing the
045gaps. What is closing the gaps? It's kind of a culmination of both of those. And I'll dig in a little bit deeper as we get going onto this. Anytime you see a star, you're going to see our data compared to the state or potentially compared to the region. Down there in that bottom yellow part is also how you can pull these reports if you want to dig a little bit deeper. But when you look at this, this is campus ratings. And so on the lefth hand side is the state. So of course the green is A's, that blue purplish color is B's, and then the the violet color is C's and so forth and so on. So across the state, that's on the left hand side. But on the right hand side, if you look
046how WISD did and what I put the number out beside that percentage is the number of campuses that hit that area, whether it was ABC D. But what I want to point out to you is these tables in the middle. And you'll see that 50% of WISD WISD campuses stayed the same. But if you look on the left hand side, 55% across the state also stayed the same. So we're not abnormal when we start looking at this data compared to how we did to the state. Proportional waiting is something that is very new. So back in 1.0 days, uh if I was a campus of 200 or I was a campus of 2200, both of those campuses counted the same for accountability. They changed that to proportional waiting. So what that means is in this
047example, you have 2400 students in the whole district. That campus one has 340 stu four 334 students enrolled. So it accounts for 13.8%. Okay? Okay. And you go down and do that for every single campus. Over on the right hand side, this is a score for domain 2, which is growth. And the example that they gave here was an 85. So 13.8% of 85 is equivalent to 11.7 points. So you do that for every campus. You go down, you add all those up, and you get a final score. Here is proportional waiting for WISD. So you'll notice uh WHS is of course our biggest. They account for 35.6% 6% of your accountability. Your junior highs count between nine and 10%. Our elementaryaries count between two and four. Uh in high school of choice was which
048is one of our A's, which was great, but they only count for 7% because of that student population. When you go over to the right hand side, these are also our comparisons with school progress. So an example is WHS got 60. If you take 35.6% of that, it's equivalent to 21 points. And you do that for every single T campus. You go down to the bottom and you get a final score. This is comparing district ratings. On the left is the state. On the right is the region. Remember how I told you there was star 1.0, star 2.0? Star 2.0 much more rigorous because less multiple choice questions. Uh they're just totally different. What you're going to see where that arrow is to the to the left, look at the green. You'll see in the
049green for both the state and the region lot more districts that were ace. also a lot more districts that were B's. If you look to the right of that arrow, that changed. Okay, a lot less districts were A, less were B's, more in that C range. And you'll also notice the last three years, 23, 24, 25, it's kind of has a stagnant level. There's no one really going growing, no one really going backwards within this. This next part, left-hand side is comparing region 10 to WISD. And so, same thing to the left. So 22 uh 2019 2018 star 1.0 we had a lot more green in that. And then you look on the right hand side a lot less green more of that blue purplish color and also that violet color. Uh and again that's
050that star 2.0. So what does this really mean when we're looking at this? Uh you see in 2019 WSD was an 89. In 2022 we were an 85. And then it says 2022 what if? It took those those numbers, it's the same numbers, same year that we got 85, and they plugged that into the new accountability rating system. So, taking the same numbers, plug it into a new system, you can see how we dropped eight points even though we got an 85 in 22. And so, then you can kind of see the trend with the new accountability. Uh, in 20 2023, we're 78 and then 24 and 25 where we're at 76. This is overall district ratings. And so this is districts. Earlier we looked at campuses. On the left hand side is the state.
051On the right hand side is our district. Again for 2425 we were both 76. But if you look over on the left hand side in that table, it says 64% of districts stayed the same. We're right there with that 64%. So we're not far off from what the state is doing. Student achievement. Again, domain one is about star scores. For junior highs and high schools, they 100% of that category is about star. For high schools, it breaks up. 40% is about star. 40% is about college and career and military readiness. And by the way, that number changed. And we we've presented to you that before. Back in the day, you had to get around that 68% to be an A for your number of kids that were getting CCMR. Now, it's 88% to get an
052A. It jumped a full 20 points. And so you can tell it's a lot more rigorous. And then that 20% down there is the graduation rate. In domain one, we have approaches, meets, and masters when a student takes star scores. The colorful bars up at the top are how the state did. And you can see there's a bar graph for reading, math, science, and social studies. In the table right down there below is our scores. They're just not colorcoded like the bar graph with the same results for approaches, meets, and masters. So for example for us in reading language arts approaches we were 77 the state was 76. For meats we were 51 the state was 54. For masters we were 18 the state was 22. And you can go by and look at each
053one of those per subject to see how we did. Uh and you'll hear uh me talking a little bit on some of those areas that we want to improve on which would be that meets and masters area uh that we have a point of emphasis on this year. Next part domain two school progress. What is school progress? We we want kids to grow. And mind you, when kids grow, we're only talking about math and reading. Those are the only two tests that a student takes every single year. You do not have it in science and social studies. So part A is academic growth. Part B is relative performance. What does relative performance mean? If I have a high economically disadvantaged population, the state understands our star scores may be a little bit lower. But it
054also understands that if I have a lower socioeconomic uh number, disadvantage number, my star score should be higher. So that's how that works. So here's an example of growth. On the left hand side, I'm a student and in 2024 I got approaches low. I took the same test whether it was reading or math in 2025 and got a meets. That is growth. Okay? It can also be from approaches low to approaches low. As long as they don't go backwards, we get growth points for them. We call them hoppers and not droppers is how we have kids uh uh we've presented this to kids and they also say they're stayers. So we made up a word that you can stay the same and you're a stayer. Uh on the right hand side of that is relative
055performance. So on that y ais you see student achievement which is star scores. On the x- axis you see economically disadvantaged. You take both of those numbers, you move them up your bar graph, you hit one of those plots and you determine whether you're at A, B, C, or D within that area. This is district rating comparisons for domain 2. So, this is talking about growth. Uh, not a lot of green up there. Uh, a little more blue, but a lot of that violet color. For us in academic growth, we did gain two points. In 2024, we went from a 63 to 2025 a 65. Relative performance, we stayed the same. Uh, and you get to take the higher of these two categories. And so, we took that number of 73. Uh and so when
056you look over on the left hand side in that table stayed the same across the state. 63% of districts stayed the same in growth. And so so did we. We fall right in that range. Closing the gaps very difficult to explain. So I asked Gemini, if I was talking to a doing a board presentation, how would you explain this to the board? And it came up with this long big long phrase and then it gave me a 45minute video for you to watch. So I didn't figure you wanted to watch the video. So I'm just going to leave it to this. It's really a culmination of hey, how how many kids got me meetats and masters. It looks at our TEP pass scores. It looks at our growth. Uh it looks at our graduation rates,
057but it looks at them by all students. And you can see in those little places up there, it looks at it by race and ethnicity. It looks at it by special education, uh continuous enrolled students, EB students, and economically disadvantaged students. And then we it compares that to all those different groups across the state of Texas. and then we get a score. Uh domain three, here's how districts are doing on the left hand side. Uh you can see the again the green is the A's and so forth and so on. So for us, we did fall a little bit on this one. We went from a 77 to a 75. Uh and so that's just a little bit lower in in what the the state was that 50% of districts stayed the same. So we
058fell a little behind in this area. So just looking at local comparisons in context, I always know that that you want to compare to see how we're doing to with other districts, which by the way, I will tell you there's only three, four, maybe five districts that are comparable to us. If we really go dig and look at number of kids, look at our low socioeconomic uh disadvantage number, uh look at ethnicity groups, our special education population, our EB population. There's not many out there. But you can go to this website. You can compare campuses or you can compare districts. So just for this presentation I just chose two districts that are are very near to us. So I chose Inennis and I chose Red Oak. And so you can see how it's broken down
059into student achievement which is all about star scores. That school progress you take the higher of academic growth and relative performance. And then that closing the gaps again is a culmination of everything. But you can go in and you can do your comparison of your own and see how other districts did compared to Wakatchi ISD. Campus comparison groups. This is when you really know how you are doing. Sometimes it's even hard for our campuses to compare how another campus is doing in the district because they're not the same. And so we get compared each campus to 40 comparison groups. How do they do that? By grade level, by size, by EBS, by sped. All the thing that I talked about earlier about how districts are compared. and they have what's called uh distinctions and designations.
060Distinctions and designations come from how many kids are in that mast's area. When we talk about star, it talks about attendance. It talks about growth. It talks about how our kids are doing on ACT, SAT, AP, dual credit, all kinds of things. And so within this, these are our campuses that got distinctions and designations. Dunaway hit one for academic achievement in reading and academic achievement in science. So that's meaning they did very very well compared to their 40 comparison campuses with attendance and masters. North side hit it in comparative growth. So that means that domain two their students their performance levels they were in that top 25% cortile one of the 40 schools like them. Coleman hit it in three areas. Same thing top comparative growth they hit it in postsecary readiness. Post-secondary readiness looks
061at star scores and meets and masters only. And so they're saying when kids hit that meets and masters, they're post-secary ready. And then they did also the top 25 in comparative closing. And then also Global High got a top 25% in comparative growth uh just like Coleman and North Side. So kind of to sum up a little bit and just give you an overview of how we did. Wedgeworth increased an in overall on their A throughF by 17 points, North Side by 10, Shaq by nine, Howard by five, Dunaway, North Side, Shackleford, and Coleman they hit B in their growth area, which is a big big area that we focus on. High School of Choice jumped from a B to an A. Shackleford had the biggest gains in Telpass. And then we had three campuses
062that were two or less points shy from earning a B, which is really big. And then our CCMR percentage uh that we talked about earlier uh that also increases every year and also is a point of emphasis for us. We also talk to principles and we use principal focus meeting time to focus on these areas that we really think that we can hone in in into and and even improve our grade even more. But we have to remind ourselves how do you eat that elephant? It's one bite of a time. One bite at a time. And so we pull those things that we can get the most bang for our buck in. One of them is growth. And so student growth uh and we want our students to be involved in that as well as
063our teachers. We're going to continue to improve our meets and masters. Uh we're going to continue to utilize our dashboards. Uh we have revamped our student dashboard uh this year as well. Last year at the end of the year uh data dude and myself, we were doing presentations to kids also. Uh and then extended constructed response. You remember back in the day you had fourth grade and seventh grade writing. Well, all the writing is now built into all tests but math. And so, we're really honing into extended constructive responses because they count 20% of a student's overall uh star score. So, that was really fast and a lot of information. Do you have any questions or are you just going I'm trying to keep up with what you just said. >> I've got a question.
064>> Yes, ma'am. Uh, >> do you need time to take a breath? >> I'm good. Okay. >> I ran three miles this morning, so I'm lungs are good. This may be a little bit off of what you're talking about, but so that we can have a better understanding of the urgency at Clif. >> Okay. >> What's going to happen next year if we're in the same situation there that we are this year? >> So, the way the state looks at it is they look at DE's as they're they're not where we need to be. Uh, but they don't get you into the state coming in and saying, "Okay, now we're going to tell you what to do." It's with that F rating. But you can calc take Fs and D's and when you get five
065of those in a row, uh then that's when the state comes in and says, "Okay, you know, that could be that could be a takeover or they have a a different board of governors that that oversee what's going on." Um I I know for Cliff right now, they are a comprehensive campus. And so what that means is we get extra support uh that we'll go in and they'll they'll have a plan. It's a lot of work, uh, a lot of training, uh, that I know Miss Heimbuk is is leading up right now and Miss Strong will be a part of that. Uh, and we'll really look in and hone into those things kind of like I showed you before. Where are those areas that we really need to dig into so we don't get in
066that five-year uh, consecutive cycle of a D or an F and the state doesn't come in and do anything like that? So, does that answer your question? >> Anything else, >> Miss Hilbert? when uh you were talking about the campus comparison groups, how will we find that exactly? >> You can Google 40 comparative campus groups, TA, and it will pop right up. Um but yes, simple as that. >> Google the I'm sorry, campus comparison groups, TIA or TEA. >> Yeah, TEA campus comparative groups and it will pop right up. Oh, you can also go to texaschools.gov gov u and you can get to it from that way too and see those 40 and then you can dig into distinctions and designations that texaschools.gov has all kinds of information for you to dig into. Yes, ma'am.
067>> Yes, ma'am. It's just knowing what to look for, how to look for it. >> Could we please receive this? Uh could you send us this presentation so we can go back over it? Sure. You've explained it very well. So, >> absolutely. That'll Yes, ma'am. Little less less u >> little more time to dig in. I understand. >> Little more time to dig in. >> Thank you. >> All right. Thank y'all. >> Thank you, >> M. Robinson. Before you start, um I would like to uh wish you a happy birthday. I know this is not where you probably want to be spending your birthday, but happy birthday. >> It's great birthday. Here I am. >> Right where I want to be. >> You be both, >> right? Yes. I heard happened to you, too. So,
068all right, Sean. >> Good evening, board. Uh, Miss McCutchen, we're going to address our balance scorecard numbers uh 1.2. So Jinger and I kind of handle this because it has to do with student behavior and uh perceptions and processes related to safety and security. So I just wanted to touch on a couple things uh right here. Uh as Ryan pointed out just earlier that we actually have hit our uh 96% goal of ADA for the first month. Hopefully we can keep that up for sure. But uh one of the things that notice it talks about the choose love program and our house systems. We are still developing protocols on how to measure the effectiveness of those and choose love is quite new. >> So um this year last year we piloted our choose love program
069at Clif and Dunaway. Um this year it's our tier one positive behavior support program. Um it is across all of our elementary campuses. In August, all of our preK and elementary campuses attended a kickoff um with the Choose Love founder, Scarlett Lewis, and they were trained on the implementation of the program. So, we hope that we see with this tier one across all of our classrooms with this positive support in behavior, we're going to see that our uh behavior numbers start to decrease. So, oh, I'll finish. Go ahead. Um the also we uh we last year we hired or last year we um were able to hire a coordinator of um mental health and counseling. One of her areas that she um oversees is she is a general education behavior interventionist on our campuses. Um
070her uh report for 2425 is for tier one prevention. Um she worked with 50 on 57 cases. Um tier two and tier three is our little more intense um behavior students and she across the district with u put in 104 um observation and intervention programs and that was just across our elementary campuses um on those numbers. >> There was quite a few more if you count all across the district. >> Yes, that was just elementary. So on this slide, I just wanted to talk uh briefly that it does talk about threat assessment. Uh as you all know, we have a new platform that is statewide where we report all of our threat assessment. We are gaining training. We are providing training. We got a little bit uh to our principles this morning and there will
071be more as Miss McCutchen mentioned earlier uh for our APS and that's where all of our threat assessment teams will put in any sort of reports. I did want to mention in this slide notice it says that our goal is to have 100% of staff trained by December and we are well on our way of 75%. Uh I know that several of our staff members are struggle to get into the trainings because they are so needed across the state. >> Did you have anything on the one before? >> Nope. >> I think that's it. Next one is should be me. >> Yep. >> All right. All right. So along with safety is our well-being of students. So we want to talk about their um our mental health uh programs. Um we this here for um
072suicide awareness is kind of where we're at right now. Um we've created uh posters, distributed those across the campuses. Uh this is National Suicide Awareness Month. Um for this month we have um information that goes out to our parents. We are also having our eighth grade students uh being trained uh trained I'm sorry receiving a presentation in suicide awareness prevention um and also our 10th graders um that's prevented presented by the Grant Hallebertton Foundation. Um and then this coming Wednesday we have a parent presentation uh for our junior high. It's called juggling junior high um where we'll talk about all the things that go along with junior high and also mental health wellness. And then also we have our mind above matter program that is our intensive afterchool treatment facility. Um currently we have five
073students um that are in the clinic. Uh one uh that is uh in the pipeline for assessment. Last year in 2425 we ended the year serving 31 students in the clinic um who successfully discharged and um that was through July because we ran the program all through the summer. Um so we had 31 successful discharges. Our next one is our next step counselors. That's our licensed uh therapists that are across the district. um that is free for our ser our students so that they don't have to leave to get those services. Last year they saw 442 of our students and held 3,294 sessions across our district and those are on our uh K through 12th grade campuses. And then our final is Car Solus is our wraparound services. It's for our students, our staff and
074their families. Um it is u a service that helps our families find mental health providers or behavior providers for their students. They saw they had 68 total cases last year uh 147 individuals assisted and 3,856 communications and 51 matches uh to help our families find mental health providers. >> Any questions for us? I have one. Yes, ma'am. Um for Ginger, >> what do you think in your opinion? Um we need it cliff. >> So, I pulled some data um because that is one of our campuses where we we do find our high some of our high needs. Um Monica Taylor, our coordinator that I mentioned earlier, um for behavior strategies, um worked a lot on that campus during 2425. So we pulled some data and we found that the data from 2324. I'll just give
075you a a just give you a little there were 326 instances in 2324. Last year there were only 204. Um we've wa we're watching the behavior decrease and I feel like it's because we've been able to put her on that campus to be able to provide interventions. Now here's the unfortunate thing. She's across the district that is just that Clif is just one campus that she is she's now servicing across all of WISD. But I think we can see that we have positive growth when an intervention is behavior interventionist is in place and can support that campus. And I feel like if we could have a behavior interventionist in there, we could see those behaviors continue to decrease and that the the staff, the administrative staff could start working on instruction, which then again goes
076back to Miss Hilurn's report and the questions that you had about instruction. Now, that's I that's the data I can give you for discipline and behavior. Um, we did see a decrease, but I we were able to put a a I mean, I was able to put my coordinator there for she was there over 160 hours just in the first semester, which equals to about 21 days. So that's working with teachers, working with students, trying to decrease those behaviors. So that's just my and choose love. That was one of our pilot program, pilot schools. So, we were able to put that positive behavior support system in place on that campus. So, you put a behavior interventionist there who can support the the staff with those behaviors full-time and they can oversee that positive behavior program.
077I think you're going to continue to see those numbers decrease. That's just my just my personal opinion, my opinion. >> How hard is it to find someone like that? Or could Monica train somebody? >> She could. Um, it it would obviously would want we would want a certified person. Um, if we of course counselors, but we also we have there are social workers out that are trained to handle behaviors as well. Um, so yes, a behavior interventionist could be trained. Yes. So, it sounds like that's key to getting what we need over there. >> I think it I think we would see just somebody who could just embrace those behaviors and allow those administrators to be in the classroom with those teachers and working on instruction. >> Yeah. Like they should be. >> Okay. Thank
078you. >> Sure. >> Anyone else? Thank you guys very much. >> Thanks for the birthday wish. >> Next item will be item six areformational items. There's three reports that are um contained in your in your board book for your review and forformational items only. Anyone have any questions on those? Okay, we'll move to our consent agenda. We have consent agenda items A through G. We have been asked to remove uh letter D. So we have A B C E FG up for consideration. specifically state those numbers a letter, excuse me. >> Okay, so we have a motion by Mr. Schoolfield. >> Second by Mr. McCutchen. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. I. >> Say nay. Motion carries 70. Okay, moving on to action item A. Consideration with possible action to approve the establishment
079of the 2027 2028 attendance zones between Wakahhatchee High School and Walkachche Creek High School and establish the attendance zone for the anticipated construction and opening of Junior High School number four. >> Thank you, sir. Uh board, you may uh gently remember this item. It was on our August agenda and uh we pushed it to September, but kind of want to walk you back through what we've been doing all summer. Uh so we started in January with the town hall on safety and security and started trying to get some feedback uh from our community knowing that we would have to have an attendant zone for Walksete Creek. um administration worked through the spring to kind of look at those uh ideas and plans and came up with um an attendant zone recommendation and we had six
080town hall meetings over the summer uh two in June, two in July and two in August. So kind of want to walk you through uh what we did, where we are and then the recommendation going into zoning. Our priorities uh from a district level were socioeconomic balance between any two high school campuses. Uh those are comprehensive high school campuses. Uh pure junior high feeders. Uh we would love to have a pure junior high feeder. It makes uh life a little bit easier for all involved. Uh we would like if the campuses can start in different UIL districts. Uh we know that that's not going to stay different UIL districts forever in a day. Uh but if we can start them in different UIL districts, I believe that would be beneficial. And then we also want
081to efficiently utilize those u our high school campuses. We did ask our community as part of the January uh town hall when opening Wachete Creek uh what are your thoughts on a freshman only or freshman sophomore and got some feedback. About 54% of our respondents uh told us that they were good with a freshman sophomore opening. About 40% told us freshman only and about 7% did not have an opinion uh as it related to that feedback. We also sought feedback on our uh priorities. Uh so those four that that I mentioned uh we had our community essentially tell us that pure junior high feeders was one of the more important things that they uh that they sought on that list with about 61% of the respondents mentioning it as a concern. Uh and then the
082next high asked was travel time or route to Wachi Creek High School. While I don't build roads, uh I do certainly understand that the travel time to Wetche Creek um is going to be a concern for some of our uh community members. But what we tried to do as an administrative group uh was to keep the zone contiguous for Walksetchi Creek and not have uh pocket areas throughout the district that might make travel more of a challenge or a concern uh for any student that may be uh zoned to Walkete Creek. looking at the proposed zone from an elementary perspective. Uh right now the you can kind of see a little bit of a darker black line between Wedgeworth and Dunaway and then it kind of goes around Marvin and splits north side and kind
083of goes up where 287 would be between north side and Felty and follows between Felty and Simpson. Uh so that would be that that dark line would be your delineation between Walks High and Walksetchi Creek. Um holistically you're looking at whole zones of Cliff, Dunaway, Felty, Marvin, and Jimmy Ray Elementary that would all feed into Wetache Creek and then Northside Shackleford Simpson and Wedgeworth which would feed into Wsete High. Uh there's the the truth in that is that they would feed into a junior high and then pure junior high feeders into that high school program. One campus you don't see listed is Wyman. Wyomman is a lottery campus and so as such students who attend Wyomman go back to their homezoned elementary for purposes of determining that feeder pattern into junior high andor high school.
084Uh so we did not omit Wyomman uh unintentionally. It was omitted because those students go back to that home zone going forward. If this zone was put into place today and Wetche Creek High School opened with all four grade levels today, we would have about 48.6% 6% of the students at Wakahhatchee uh high school as economically disadvantaged and 54.1% at Wsahche Creek economically disadvantaged. So pretty good balance uh between the two schools uh all things considered as we look at pure elementary and pure junior high feeders. uh take you to the table the enrollment forecast below 2728 would be the first year that we are looking at walks at Creek but again uh we're looking at freshman sophomore only and this table is assuming all four grade levels uh start in that 2728 school year
085so if you go out a little bit to 2930 that would be the first year that we would reasonably anticipate that we would have all four grade levels at walks high and walks creek if you look at the enrollment projections in 2930 right about 1700 students at Walks Etche High School and about 1,950 students at Wsete Creek. So >> a a little bit of a delta about 250 students um which is really an efficient utilization of space at both campuses. I have plenty of room to grow into that might also get me into different UIL districts. While not the chief concern, uh that is a a large enough of a delta that that may get me in different UIL districts uh when UIL realignment happens. Uh looking out long-term in 24 I'm looking at the
086enrollment projected enrollment for Wsuchi High at 267 and Weti Creek at about 280. A little bit of a delta but you're seeing that delta shrink a little bit between those two campuses. Uh which really is a good thing overall. I'm not burdening any one campus at the expense of the other. But it also tells me that just on the surface in the immediate future that the proposed zone for Wetche Creek uh is not going to overburden that campus. It's also not going to leave um an unmanageable uh student enrollment at Waketi High either. So a pretty good long-term forecast at least through uh for that zone. Students don't go from elementary straight into high school. So they make that stop in junior high. So to give you an idea of what that uh fourth junior
087high zoning would look like uh whenever junior high number four comes online, wanted to show you this chart. Uh so we'd be looking at North Side and Wedgeworth attending Coleman Junior High. Uh Jimmy Ray and Felty attending Howard Junior High, Shackleford and Simpson combining uh into Finley Junior High. And Clif Dunaway and Marvin attending uh junior high number four. Again, we'd be looking at uh Howard and junior high number four attend going into Wachete Creek and then we'd be looking at Finley and Coleman zoning into Wakatchi High School. And all of the plans that that administration had looked at and put together, we actually came up with about four different plans for junior high feeders. Um each plan has its own challenges, its own warts. uh some of the well actually the other three plans
088that we came up with uh enrollment was the problem. I have three junior high campuses sitting at about a thousand students to,200 students each and one campus sitting at about 500 students. Uh so we're not efficiently utilizing our our facilities when we look at it that way. With this plan uh I'm looking at economically disadvantaged percentages and I see that I range anywhere from 44% to about 68%. I know that I have one outlier. with junior high for about 68%. Um I do believe that that is I know that that is based off of current demographics within those zones. I do believe that that uh will change as we get closer to junior high number four opening. Uh as I look at the demographic reports and all of the data that shows me that the
089average value of the homes that we are building um generally uh are are pretty large compared to where they have been in the past. We're starting homes at at $350 $400,000 and in some of these zones, particularly in Dunaway zone, uh we have some a neighborhood going in with about $550,000 homes uh in that area. So that will uh help to increase or well decrease the economically disadvantaged population within that junior high four zone. Uh but this is a number based off of today if junior high 4 opened today. As I look down into the enrollment chart, 2930 would be the first year that I would anticipate that we could potentially have junior high 4 on the ground. Um, if I look at 2930, I'm looking at about 700 to 860 students uh at each
090of the four junior highs. And then as I look out to 3435, I have one campus at a little over a thousand and I have the other three campuses right at 900 or just shy of a thousand themselves. pretty good balance and distribution of our students between the campuses. Uh we will need to work with uh the principal if these numbers hold true and the economic disadvantage percentage holds steady uh for when junior high 4 opens. Uh we will need to work with the campus principal to ensure that they have uh the resources and the personnel necessary uh to offset that increase that that outlying increase in the economic disadvantage percentage uh of the students zoned to junior high number four. As we are mainly uh talking about the zone for Walksachi Creek High School,
091uh couple of transfer options and grandfathering that we wanted to put on the the table and ask the board to consider uh these were mentioned with our community. A one-time transfer option. So if a student is uh zoned to a high school campus that does not offer an academic program that they would like to be a part of um we know that about 80% of our CTE courses are going to be duplicative between Wetche Creek and Wete High. There will be some uh differentiation. So if a student would like to be a part of uh one of those CTE academic programs or another academic program that may not be offered um at the campus they are zoned for. Uh we're proposing a one-time um election where student can transfer to the other high school campus.
092Um and as long as they are in that academic program, they're able to stay at that campus. If they stop participating in that academic program, they will go back to their home campus. Uh if they are uh successfully transferred and the one-time option, they would be able to take advantage of all of the other uh opportunities at the campus that they are electing to attend. So if we have a student who wants to be a part of uh the big commercial culinary kitchen at Wsachete High and they're zoned for Wachi Creek, that would not stop them uh from participating on the debate team or participating in band uh just because their transfer option was for the culinary program. They could participate in the other activities as well. Students who are zoned for Wachi High but
093would like to transfer into Wachi Creek as long as we are offering that grade level. Uh we're proposing to let students uh transfer into Wetache Creek. Um one limitation that those students should be aware of though is that board policy EIC local and UIL regulations would be in effect. And so EI EIC says for a student to participate in graduation honors uh that they would have to be at that campus for three years. So, this would stop students uh from two years down the road in their junior year deciding they now want to transfer to um Walkset Creek because they have a better chance of being validictorian. Those honors are awarded according to EIC based off of a minimum of three years of high school uh at the same campus. Uh so a student who
094is at Wetche High and would like to attend Wetche Creek as long as their graduating class is offered at Wetche Creek, we'd be uh open to allowing students to transfer into Wetche Creek High School. A sibling transfer. This is one of actually this is the main one that came up in our town hall meetings. Uh this was not originally a proposal to have a sibling transfer, but for students who are zoned to Wachi Creek for a grade level that's not offered. So they are your juniors or seniors at the opening of Wsache Creek High School, they would still be attending Wsachi High. The question was, would their siblings be able to also attend Wetache High uh to make it easier for transportation purposes for uh parents or the siblings involved? Uh so we are proposing
095a sibling transfer for those two uh classes the class of 27 and the class of 28. So those seniors or those juniors with the opening of Wsachi Creek that would be zoned Wachete Creek but attending Wachete High if they have a sibling that is enrolled in high school at the same time that they are enrolled uh in the district. So no overlap, no gaps uh that those uh younger uh siblings would also be able to attend Walki High. This is not a legacy transfer. Uh so when those students graduate in the class of 28, uh if they have a a sibling that is then entering their ninth grade year, they would go to that zone campus. This is not a legacy that that would allow students to or siblings to continue that transfer going forward.
096And then one request for grandfathered students board. We'd like for you to consider that a student who has earned at least one credit towards graduation uh be able to stay at that campus that they earned that credit towards graduation. Uh a student who takes a class in summer school or who earned that graduation credit uh in junior high would not count for purposes of this grandfathering. But essentially, the purpose of this would be to not rip a student out of uh if they're in the band program and they've kind of made their way up uh in their chairs and they're on their way to being a drum major to not rip them out and make them go to Wachi Creek if they chose to stay at Wsachi High as long as they've earned that one
097credit towards graduation. Overarching for all of the transfers and grandfathering, any student who is a transfer student must provide their own transportation to and from school. So, if they're attending the zone or the school that is not in their zone, they would have to provide that transportation to and from. With that, I would open it up for any questions you may have. Uh, and then ask for your approval. Uh, at this point, board, uh, this is kind of the the lynch pin for those next steps as we start preparing for the opening of Wache Creek. Um, with the establishment of zones, we can continue our work to name a mascot, uh, and work on colors and all the other things that go into the opening of a campus as we really want student participation. And
098this would be our way of determining which students would be in that zone to be impacted so that we can start targeting them for input uh, in their campus mascot and their campus colors. >> Any questions for Mr. Calden? Yes. The uh excuse me, the d the one-time WHS transfer over to Creek. >> I mean, how long is that in place for? Is that is that like just year one or is that >> So, the uh the general idea would be at the opening of uh Wache Creek if you are zoned for Wetche High. So you would have to be a freshman or a sophomore in the 27 28 school year that you could elect to transfer into Wache Creek. That would stay with you for the remainder of your high school career. So it
099would really just be those two years >> those two years >> uh in 2728 that you would have that ability to transfer into Wache Creek. >> Gotcha. >> Mr. Mr. Colin, with >> the construction of Frankie Lug Jett at some point, how would that change this >> fruit basket turnover? Sir, fruit basket turn. >> I knew you'd kill me. >> So, um, realistically, to answer your question, and I'm going to go back on the map. So, right now, let's go to the other one because it makes it easier. Right now, you see kind of my elementary zones. I really don't know where Frankie Lugette Elementary is going to go. Uh, so to be really honest, if it goes between, man, I wish I had a laser pointer. Uh, if it goes between Wedgeworth and Dunaway,
100truly sir, fruit basket turnover because now I've got to either split a campus or I've got to rework uh some of the metrics within it. As we kind of looked earlier in the demographics report, I got a couple of hot spots. I got between Clif and Jimmy Ray. Uh if I'm looking at kind of the activity in the zone and my second and uh third futures area, if I do it between if Frankie Led is impacting Clif and Jimmy Ray, honestly, no impact because those are currently feeding uh the same high school, it will have an impact on the junior high. U the other one that was my big futures, my really big futures is Wedgeworth. So if I'm putting Frankie Lugette in say with wholly within the Wedgeworth zone, I don't honestly believe that
101that has any impact on junior high or high school metriculation, I just add one more campus. And I now have five that are zoned to a junior high to feed Wachi Creek and five that are zoned to a junior high to feed Wachi uh high on the other side of this uh graphic. But uh to be real candid, sir, I don't know where uh where Frankie Lugette's going to go right now. And it could be a nothing burger or it could be complete disruption and we're talking again um pretty soon down the line with the opening of Frankie Luchette. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> Yes, sir. >> Anyone else? Okay. I entertain a motion to approve action item A as presented. >> So move. >> Motion by Mrs. Timberman. I have a second. Second. >>
102Second by Mr. Schoolfield. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. I. >> Post say nay. Motion carries 70. And our last action item will be consideration with possible action to nominate one person to be included on the ballot and potentially appointed to the Ellis County Appraisal District Board of Directors by the taxing entities in the county. board. I have to fully admit I made an error on this one. It's one nominee for each position that's open for appointment. You technically can get two nominees if you have those at this time. Uh last time we talked about the process and by October 14th, we have to have um our nominees into the appraisal district if you would like to nominate anybody for potential appointment. uh because of the timing, our next meeting is on the
10314th, which would be uh us getting that information to them after the deadline. Um then we moved it up to September. So, we talked a little bit on the 26th of August about this process. So tonight, board, it's up to you to come up with uh one up to two uh nominees that you would like to put forward for potential inclusion uh on the balloting for appointment to the Ellis County Appraisal District Board of Directors. >> Does anyone have any uh anyone in particular they would like to nominate? I did have one individual that expressed some interest. I had a discussion. I forwarded his biography and and resume to Mr. Calden today. Um, do you have that handy? So, is his name is Tim Cummings? >> Tim Cummings. Yes, sir. >> Yes. Um, longtime realtor
104in the um in the district, has kids that attend WISD. Um, that was the only person that I spoke to several. That was the only person that actually got back to me with a bio and a resume. Yes, sir. It appears that uh Mr. Cummings has been, let's see, Ellis County generally since uh June of 2012. Uh so a pretty good tenure resident uh of Ellis County with plenty of of knowledge in the real estate industry. And I do know he spoke to our current representative um on the board, Mr. Keeler, and got the details and whatnot. I did ask him if he did that, and he did do that. So, if there's no objection, I will make that nomination that uh that uh Mr. Cummings be our rep nominee for the Ellis County Appraisal
105District Board of Directors. So a motion by myself, second by Mr. McCuten will be the first motion I made in a long time. >> Any other discussion? All in favor say I. I. >> Post say nay. >> Motion carry 70. >> Thank you guys very much. And I need a motion to nominate a second one. No, >> nobody had another name. >> No, he's returned >> from everything. So, >> okay. A motion by Miss Creel. >> Second by Mr. Pitts. All in favor say I. Motion carry 70. Thank you very much.