SPRINGTOWN, Texas โ The Springtown Independent School District Board of Trustees unanimously approved calling a School Bond Election for May 3, 2025.
The Springtown ISD Citizensโ Facility Advisory Committee (CFAC) comprised a diverse group of 58 Springtown community members and leaders with various perspectives met eight times over the past five months. Their charge was to evaluate the district's long-term facility needs and help produce the long-range facility plan and vision going forward. A recommendation was then made to the SISD Board of Trustees in January.
โIโd like to thank our board members and our CFAC members for their time and efforts in shaping this bond package,โ Superintendent Shane Strickland said. โItโs been 17 years since we had a bond passed in this community. This is the first step in a long master plan for the future of our district. Weโve taken the time to consider all options carefully and identified the needs of the students we serve that this bond proposal helps address.โ
Texas school districts do not receive state funding for renovating or building new schools. Instead, they must receive funds through school bond elections. The 2025 Bond will ask voters to consider a $98 million package in one proposition.
Proposition A includes a new elementary school, renovations to Springtown Elementary, a science and Career and Technology Education (CTE) addition to Springtown Middle School, upgraded CTE equipment and facilities, safety and security, and new buses.
Springtown ISD has become a fast-growth district with recent growth outpacing what was projected only a few years ago. Enrollment has increased by nearly 600 students in the last four years and is expected to add another 400 students in the next four years โ the equivalent of one and a half elementary schools. In three years, the district is going to be 135 seats short of what it needs throughout K-12 grades. Two of the districtโs elementary schools are over the functional capacity and the intermediate school will be over its capacity within the next year.
If passed, the bond would provide additional seats, classrooms, and buildings to accommodate this growth.
โOthers have realized what a great community Springtown is to live in and make their home. But the fact is that we are running out of room faster than we can act on right now,โ Mr. Strickland said. โWe have had to request waivers from the state for our overgrown classroom sizes in several areas. This bond package helps accommodate that growth at the elementary level and our Career and Technical Education at the Middle School.โ
The 2023 legislative session delivered the largest property tax cut in Texas history. The combination of compression and the $100,000 homestead exemption cut school district property taxes for homeowners around the state.
If passed, the expected financial impact of the bond would be $12.78 a month on a home valued at $300,000 in Springtown ISD.
Since 2019, state law requires all bond propositions for any school district to have the phrase โTHIS IS A PROPERTY TAX INCREASEโ on all ballot language for bond propositions. Homeowners 65 years of age and older who have filed for and received the Over 65 exemption will not see an increase over their frozen dollar amount. Check your most recent Notice of Assessed Value Change to see if your school district taxes will be impacted.
The district will begin providing the community with voter education information about all areas surrounding the 2025 bond package.
โWe want to make sure that our community is well-informed with the facts about this bond proposal,โ Mr. Strickland said. โThe district has an obligation to fill by keeping our voters informed about only the facts. And that these bond funds will only be used on the projects identified in this bond package and on the ballot. We will be reaching out by phone, mail, digitally, and social media to inform all our voters about the facts before they go to the polls in April and May.โ
More information about the bond projects and voting locations will be available on the district website at SpringtownISDBond2025.net.
To register to vote or to find out your registration status, call the Parker County Elections Department at 817-598-6185, or visit their website at parkercountytx.gov/118/elections. Voters in Wise County can contact their office at 940-626-4453 or online at co.wise.tx.us/315/elections. The last day to register to vote in the May election is Thursday, April 3.
Early voting begins April 22 and ends April 29, and Election Day is Saturday, May 3.