San Antonio Independent School District
San Antonio Independent School District is a school district based in Downtown San Antonio, Texas, United States.
San Antonio ISD is one of 15 school districts serving the San Antonio area. San Antonio ISD serves the Downtown, Midtown, and inner city areas of the city of San Antonio and a small portion of the city of Balcones Heights. With over 53,000 students, the district is the third largest school district in the Bexar County area.
Superintendents
1875-????, C. Plagge1919-1923, Annie Webb Blanton
1946-1963, Thomas B. Portwood
1994-1998, Dr. Diana Lam
1998-1999, Dr. David F. Splitek
1999-2006, Dr. Rubén D. Olivárez
2006-2012, Dr. Robert Duron
2012-2015, Dr. Sylvester Perez
2015-Present, Pedro Martinez
Board of Trustees
2010-11President, James Howard
Vice-President, Carlos Villarreal
Secretary, Thomas C. Lopez
Asst. Secretary, Olga Hernandez
Member, Ruben D. Cuero
Member, Adela R. Segovia
Member, Ed Garza
2011-12
President, James Howard
Vice-President, Carlos Villarreal
Secretary, Adela R. Segovia
Asst. Secretary, Olga Hernandez
Member, Ruben D. Cuero
Member, Ed Garza
Member, Patti Radle
2012-13
President, Ed Garza
Vice-President, Ruben D. Cuero
Secretary, Olga Hernandez
Asst. Secretary, Adela R. Segovia
Member, Debra Guerrero
Member, James Howard
Member, Patti Radle
2013-14
President, Ed Garza
Vice-President, Olga Hernandez
Secretary, Arthur V. Valdez
Asst. Secretary, James Howard
Member, Debra Guerrero
Member, Steve Lecholop
Member, Patti Radle
2019-20
President, Patti Radle
Vice-President, Arthur V. Valdez
Secretary, Debra Guerrero
Asst. Secretary, Steve Lecholop
Member, Alicia M. Perry
Member, Christina Martinez
Member, Ed Garza
Next Elections
2021
Districts 1,3,4,7
2023
Districts 2,5,6
History
The district was involved directly in the San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez Supreme Court case and indirectly in the United States v. Lopez Supreme Court case.In the 2016-2017 school year, about 5,050 students went from SAISD to charter schools, and in the last part of the 2017-2018 school year that number increased to about 10,100, while about 200 students living in SAISD were in other school districts. For the 2018-2019 school year the district ended the employment of 132 teachers over budget cuts, and budget was reduced by 6%, totaling $31 million. By 2018, in a response to a decline in enrollment, the district repurposed several campuses as magnet schools or specialty schools to attract parents who would otherwise put their children in private school.
Demographics
91% of the students are considered low income. As of that year, people transferring from other school districts to SAISD tended to live in more upscale communities.School uniforms
All San Antonio ISD students are required to wear school uniforms. Students are required to wear white collared shirts and khaki bottoms. They are also permitted wear polo shirts with their schools' colors. The Texas Education Agency specifies that the parents and/or guardians of students zoned to a school with uniforms may apply for a waiver to opt out of the uniform policy so their children do not have to wear the uniform; parents must specify "bona fide" reasons, such as religious reasons or philosophical objections.Schools
High schools
- G.W. Brackenridge High School
- *Brackenridge won the 1947 UIL state football championship, the last title before the UIL divided schools into classifications based on enrollment.
- Luther Burbank High School
- Center for Applied Science & Technology High School
- *The school, designed by H-E-B CEO Charles Butt and inspired by the High Tech High charter schools system, opened with the ninth grade in fall 2017. Its initial enrollment was 175.
- Thomas Edison High School
- Fox Technical High School
- Highlands High School
- Sam Houston High School
- Thomas Jefferson High School
- Sidney Lanier High School
- Phoenix Middle College
- St. Philip's Early College High School
- Travis Early College High School
Middle schools
- S.J. Davis Middle School
- Joel C. Harris Middle School
- Washington Irving Middle School
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Middle School
- James Russell Lowell Middle School
- Thomas Nelson Page Middle School
- Edgar Allan Poe Middle School
- Jerimiah Rhodes Middle School
- Harry H. Rogers Middle School
- Fidel L. Tafolla Middle School
- John Greenleaf Whittier Middle School
Academies
- Advanced Learning Academy at Fox Tech
- Charles Clyde Ball Academy
- Beacon Hill Academy
- James Bonham Academy
- Bowden Academy - As per a 2016 bond it is scheduled to get a $11.1 million refurbishment. Brian Sparks, in 2018, served as principal at both Bowden and Lamar Elementary, and he was making efforts to improve Bowden's performance levels to that of Lamar's. As of 2018 a significant number of parents zoned to Bowden instead send their children to other schools, public and private. Most people residing in the area are of a lower socioeconomic strata although by 2018 gentrification of the area began. Aliyya Swaby and Alexa Ura of Texas Tribune, in 2018, described it as "drab and dimly lit" and that it "is still struggling".
- Agnes Cotton Academy
- David Crockett Academy
- Frederick Douglass Academy
- Marin B. Fenwick Academy
- Muriel Vance Forbes Academy
- Inez Foster Academy
- Robert B. Green Academy
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Academy
- Ferdinand Herff Academy
- Irving Dual Language Academy
- Eloise Japhet Academy
- Martin Luther King Jr. Academy
- Antonio Margil Academy
- Mission Academy
- Ira C. Ogden Academy
- Laura Steele Montessori Academy
- Mark Twain Dual Language Academy
- Riverside Park Academy
- Will Rogers Academy
- Woodlawn Academy
- Young Men's Leadership Academy
- Young Women's Leadership Academy
- *YWLA was ranked #1 in Texas
- *The school, as of December 2016 also ranked as exemplary by the Texas Education Agency, has a college readiness focus with an emphasis on science, technology, engineering and math.
Elementary schools
- Charles August Arnold Elementary School
- Barkley-Ruiz Elementary School
- Mildred Baskin Elementary School
- J.T. Brackenridge Elementary School
- Andrew Briscoe Elementary School
- Bella Cameron Elementary School
- Collins Garden Elementary School
- Lorenzo De Zavala Elementary School
- Frederick Douglass Elementary School
- Marin B. Fenwick Elementary School
- Benjamin Franklin Elementary School
- Samuel Houston Gates Elementary School
- Charles Graebner Elementary School
- Highland Hills Elementary School
- Highland Park Elementary School
- Hillcrest Elementary School
- Herman Hirsch Elementary School
- Mary Huppertz Elementary School
- George E. Kelly Elementary School
- Sarah King Elementary School
- Mirabeau B. Lamar Elementary School - the student body was majority Hispanic but the school's attendance area was experiencing gentrification. The school has a dual English-Spanish program. Sparks, also principal at Bowden Academy, served as principal of Lamar since circa 2013 That year Swaby and Ura stated that "Over the last five years, Sparks has made Lamar a winner with the help of an engaged corps of parents".
- James Madison Elementary School
- Samuel A. Maverick Elementary School
- Dorie Miller Elementary School
- Elma A. Neal Elementary School
- John J. Pershing Elementary School
- Cleto L. Rodriguez Elementary School
- Kate Schenck Elementary School
- Smith Elementary School
- P.F. Stewart Elementary School
- Ollie Perry Storm Elementary School
- Booker T. Washington Elementary School
- Woodrow Wilson Elementary School
- Woodlawn Hills Elementary School
Early childhood education centers
- Henry Carroll Early Childhood Education Center
- Esther Perez Carvajal Early Childhood Education Center
- Rafael Gonzales Early Childhood Education Center
- Wilbur J. Knox Early Childhood Education Center
- Pauline Nelson Early Childhood Education Center
- Elizabeth Tynan Early Childhood Education Center
Special campuses
- Cooper Academy at Navarro
- Estrada Alternative Center
- Brewer Academy