Communities in Schools of South Central Texas, or CISSCT, a nonprofit organization working to support students at risk of dropping out, served 9,607 New Braunfels ISD students in the 2025-26 school year, according to preliminary data presented by CISSCT CEO Susan Wetz during a June 15 school board meeting.
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Approximately 923 students received continuous intensive services, and 2,405 students received targeted services for additional support ranging from food, school supplies and resources for parents to ongoing individual and small group services. There were 9,607 students who received schoolwide prevention services, according to the presentation.
CISSCT provided 985 students with attendance-related services. Of those, 53 students received rides to or from school for a total of 258 trips, according to board documents.
The organization also provides mental health and counseling services through site coordinators and clinical counselors.
Site coordinators provide daily interventions, referrals, parent consultations, individual and group counseling as well as suicidal ideation and self-harm interventions. Clinical counselors provide intensive, solution-focused therapy to students experiencing anxiety, depression, self-harming behaviors or suicidal ideation, the presentation stated.
Site coordinators served 864 students, and clinical counselors provided 83 students with therapeutic counseling, according to the presentation.
“Those therapeutic and preventions are all grant-funded; that cost is not passed onto the school district,” Wetz said. “In addition to that, we helped students with five suicide protocols, and it is decreasing every year, which makes me very happy, but there’s still work to do.”
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Hispanic students make up the largest demographic served by CISSCT, followed by white students and Black or African American students. The organization is in 60 schools across several districts, including:
- Luling ISD
- Marion ISD
- Comal ISD
- Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City ISD
- Seguin ISD
- Navarro ISD
