Leander ISD students who live within 2 miles of their school are typically not eligible for bus service, according to LISD’s website.

However, exceptions are made for students who live in areas determined to be “hazardous,” such as a lack of sidewalks, lack of controlled pedestrian crossings or ongoing construction, according to district documents.

At the April 5 LISD meeting, trustees voted to discontinue transportation services to 12 areas no longer deemed as hazardous and within 2 miles of the school in question for the 2018-19 academic year, including:

  1. Cypress Elementary: around 177 students within the Twin Creeks neighborhood north of the traffic circle at Grand Oaks Loop, with a new crossing guard at Old Mill Road and Anderson Mill Road;

  2. Cypress Elementary: around 136 students within the Bella Vista neighborhood, with a new crossing guard at Old Mill Road and Anderson Mill Road;

  3. Reed Elementary: around 38 students from Regal Parc Apartments;

  4. Westside Elementary School: around 5 students in the Westside Preserve neighborhood living along Drop Tine Drive, Lone Buck Pass and Whitewing Drive;

  5. Naumann Elementary: around 68 students within the Cypress Bend neighborhood, with new crossing guards at Cypress Creek Road;

  6. Running Brushy Middle School: around 23 students within the Timberline East neighborhood, with new crossing guards at Bagdad Road and Osage Drive;

  7. Running Brushy Middle School: around 5 students living along Oakwood Drive, Adrian Drive, Castlewood Trail and Oak Hollow Drive;

  8. Running Brushy Middle School: around 64 students within the Coventry, High Meadows and Deerfield Park neighborhoods, with new crossing guards at Bagdad Road and New Hope Drive;

  9. Running Brushy Middle School: around 22 students from Cedar Ridge Apartments, with crossing guards at Bagdad Road and Osage Drive;

  10. Leander High School: around 24 students in the area northeast of the intersection of Bagdad Road and Crystal Falls Parkway;

  11. Leander High School: around 82 students within the Cedar Park Ranchettes and Deerfield Park neighborhoods;

  12. Leander High School: around 16 students within the Fairways neighborhood;


Readers can learn more about the specific areas affected in the meeting agenda packet.

At the same meeting, the LISD board heard a presentation about a new dating violence awareness program for high school athletes.