AUSTIN SCHOOLS
Austin Independent School District (AISD) offers parents and students many options, ensuring satisfaction with the educational system and a quality learning experience. Parents can choose to send their children to their neighborhood school, another school in the district, or an academic magnet school. If parents choose a magnet school, each has its own unique set of admission requirements.
AISD also applies the Public Education Grant Program (PEG). The PEG allows students to transfer to another school or another school district of their choice. This becomes possible with the student is enrolled in a under-performing school, which means its poor rating occurred in any one of the past three years. The transfer also becomes possible if the student attended a school where more than half of the student body failed the TAAS/TAKS for two of any three consecutive years. In addition, Austin Independent School District recognizes the right of students to attend a higher-performing school in the district under the federal No Child Left Behind law, if the current school of attendance is rated “in need of improvement”.
The school district takes it job of providing educational services and a satisfying learning experience seriously. As the fifth largest school district in Texas, it has the responsibility of providing for a wide and diverse area that includes about 86,000 students and over 120 schools. The school district’s population also continues to grow as home development expands existing neighborhoods and new neighborhoods produce homes in Austin to accommodate rise in resident influx.
Austin has a reputation for being family-friendly. It has a natural propensity for attracting many families with children. Homes for sale in Austin provide the avenue for new residents to top-rated education in Austin schools amid a school district more than prepared to deliver, as it plans ahead for growth.
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