The Carroll ISD budget for fiscal year 2026-27 will include staff raises between 3% and 5%, as well as other salary and rate adjustments.
Trustees unanimously approved the FY 2026-27 budget during the June 15 meeting. The adopted budget is balanced, meaning that revenues and expenditures are the same values.
What you need to know
Total revenues for the budget are more than $160.78 million, and expenditures are also over $160.78 million, including a budgeted $21.5 million recapture payment to the state.
CISD’s general operating fund revenue totals nearly $124.62 million, according to district documents. General operating fund expenditures are the same value.
Additionally, the district’s debt service fund is balanced with $36.17 million in revenues and expenditures, respectively.
Zooming in
Within the adopted budget, CISD officials budgeted for raises for teachers and staff. The initial compensation plan was presented in April, with an amended $1 per hour raise for bus drivers and aides approved in May.
Compensation adjustments for FY 2026-27 include:
- A $5,000 salary increase for behavior specialists, counselors, English as a second language specialists, librarians, multitier systems of support specialist, nurses, Section 504 specialists, transition specialist, diagnosticians, licensed specialist in school psychology, therapists, audiologist and speech-language pathologists
- A 3%-from-midpoint pay raise for administrative and professional staff not included in the $5,000 salary increase
- A $1 per hour rate increase for bus drivers and bus aides
- A 5%-from-midpoint pay increase for clerical, paraprofessional staff and auxiliary staff other than bus aides and bus drivers, and providing individualized equity adjustments based on years of service
The cost to the district for the compensation adjustments is $2.4 million for FY 2026-27, said Chase Park, CISD’s deputy superintendent of business and finance.
Park added that the district saved $1.3 million from staffing reductions. There is also expected to be little or no growth to appraised property values within the district, he said.
Diving deeper
The proposed tax rate for the FY 2026-27 budget is $0.9294 per $100 valuation, which is the same as the current tax rate.
The proposed maintenance and operations component of the tax rate, which covers general operating expenses, is $0.6853 per $100 valuation. The proposed interest and sinking component of the tax rate is $0.2441 per $100 valuation.
“We put a placeholder for the tax rate, and not knowing what’s going to happen with TAD values, we’re just going to hold the current rate,” Superintendent Jeremy Glenn said. “In all likelihood, this board’s trend of being able to reduce the tax rate, we know we still have capacity, especially on the I&S side. Whether it’s through compression on the M&O side or it’s a capacity adjustment on the I&S side, the board is going to have flexibility in August when we officially adopt the tax rate.”
Looking ahead
CISD officials plan to adopt the FY 2026-27 tax rate in August following the publication of certified values by the Tarrant Appraisal District in late July.
