Grade Reconfiguration Plan for 2024-25

High school attendance zones will NOT be affected by AISD’s 2024-25 grade reconfiguration plan.

There are many school districts throughout Texas with a similar configuration, including Bryan ISD, Mansfield ISD, and Duncanville ISD.

The district began this process by conducting initial surveys and stakeholder meetings with parents, students, faculty, and staff. The next steps in our feedback process include town hall meetings and a second stakeholder survey.

The grade reconfiguration process will not affect our local tax rate.

Please check the boundary maps and School Zone Finder on this page for information regarding school boundary lines.

If approved by the Board of Trustees, the AISD grade reconfiguration plan would begin in the 2024-2025 school year.

The current proposed model would include converting Bassetti, Bowie, Martinez, and Purcell elementary schools into intermediate campuses serving 5th and 6th grade students.

The same special programs will still be available to any student that qualifies. Grade reconfiguration will not affect the special program services provided by the district. Locations of special program offerings may change.

There is currently adequate space available to serve the projected number of students for grades K-4 on nine elementary campuses.

No. Class size in grades K-4 is mandated by the state of Texas at a 22:1 student-to-teacher ratio. The new configuration will not impact the number of students or the number of teachers serving them.  

Books and other instructional materials will be reallocated and relocated. AISD will still serve the same number of students; therefore, no additional books or instructional materials will be necessary. 

We anticipate that an intermediate campus would provide students an opportunity for a gradual release into middle school. This would mean that fifth and sixth grades would look different from each other and would prepare our students to be ready for the independence of middle school.

No teachers will need to be hired to implement the proposed grade reconfiguration model. Teachers are hired each year based on the number of students enrolled in AISD.

Staff meetings will be held at each proposed intermediate campus (Bowie, Clack, Martinez, and Purcell) and for all 5th and 6th grade staff members to help explain this process. Following these group meetings, a survey will be sent to every staff member at a campus that may reconfigure as an intermediate school as well as all faculty at the 5th grade and 6th grade levels. Each staff member receiving the survey will be asked to rank their top three choices among campuses and grade levels. A general form will also be available for any other AISD staff member who would be interested in working at an intermediate campus. The HR department will do its best to honor top choices from each staff member affected by campus reconfigurations.

The district is still finalizing plans to optimize the use of additional space that may result from grade reconfiguration.

Students will likely have the opportunity to begin pre-athletics classes starting in 5th grade. Current practices for pre-athletics and athletics for students in 6th-8th grades will continue.

Fine arts learning opportunities for students in 5th-8th grades will continue.

High school and middle school boundaries will not be changed by this grade reconfiguration process.

No new school buildings will be built in the proposed grade reconfiguration process.

AISD’s Transportation Department will be an integral part of the proposed grade reconfiguration process. If grade reconfiguration is approved, AISD students will continue to receive transportation to their home elementary, intermediate, middle, or high school campus as long as they do not live within a two mile radius of their campus.