BOGATA — Rivercrest ISD’s board of trustees accredited an $8.8 million greenback funds for the district’s fiscal 12 months and can fund that funds with a tax fee of 1.1596 per $100 valuation which, together with the brand new funds, was accredited Thursday evening at a gathering within the boardroom within the junior highschool.
The brand new fee is decrease by .12% than final 12 months’s whole tax fee.
Earlier than the votes, Superintendent Tiffany Mabe instructed the board they’d discover the ultimate quantity within the funds offered after a public listening to on the it was completely different from the whole on a funds offered earlier this month.
She stated the discrepancy was resulting from a mistake made by Capital Appraisal after they have been valuing the property within the district’s boundary.
At one level the place Prairiland and Rivercrest properties meet types a T and the appraisal group didn’t notice that. So photo voltaic farm property that ought to have been included within the Prairiland valuations wound up in Rivercrest.
However Mabe stated the error was caught early and solely decreased Rivercrest’s last funds whole by $1,860.
“So we’re OK,” she stated.
Tonya Gifford, the district’s curriculum director, instructed the board that the district received an A total score from the Texas Training Company with each the excessive and junior excessive colleges scoring A with the previous incomes a 95 and the latter a 93. The elementary college received an 86.
The three principals all expressed satisfaction and confidence within the staffs that earned the excessive marks with the elementary principals saying that campus’ grade would enhance within the coming score interval.
The district’s A score put Rivercrest within the prime 33% of 1,195 colleges within the state. A lot of the state’s districts, 54%, earned a grade of B, whereas much less that 10% received a C and fewer than 3% received a D, and fewer that 2% received an F.
“For us to have an A is excellent,” Gifford stated.
The district shined in commencement fee at 100% and faculty, profession and army readiness at 94%. The district’s solely B within the eight score classes got here in STAAR efficiency.
Mabe praised their work in reaching the TEA numbers.
“I couldn’t ask for a greater crew of directors and employees,” she stated.
The principals additionally instructed the board that their enrollment numbers are rising since opening day of the college 12 months.
Latrishia English stated the elementary college has 324 college students and Lee Wilson stated the junior excessive at present has 174 whereas Ronny Alsup reported the highschool had 195 with not less than two extra coming.
The board’s subsequent assembly can be Sept. 15 at 6 p.m. within the boardroom at Rivercrest Junior Excessive, 4100 U.S. 271.
