SATX-NEM: Impact 9/15/2025

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Judson ISD received a D rating for the 2024-25 school year with 69 out of 100 possible points in the Texas Education Agency’s 2024-25 accountability ratings for Texas school districts.

Digging deeper: After legal battles, the ratings for the 2023-24 school year were released on Aug. 15 along with the 2024-25 ratings. For the 2023-24 school year, Judson ISD received a C rating with 70 out of 100 possible points.

Texas schools are rated on an A-F scale based on the criteria of student achievement, student progress and closing opportunity gaps, according to Community Impact reporting.

Judson ISD was one of 139 Texas districts evaluated by the TEA to receive a D rating, accounting for 11.6% of Texas districts. Judson was one of 392 districts to receive a C for 2023-24, making up 32.9% of evaluated districts, according to the TEA.

Live Oak City Council unanimously approved the a $37.99 million budget for fiscal year 2025-26 on Sept. 9.

What you need to know: The city’s FY 2025-26 general fund is balanced with revenues and expenditures both equaling $21.16 million. Sales taxes account for over 40% of proposed general fund revenues, with the city projecting a 2% sales tax increase over FY 2024-25. Property taxes are the second-highest revenue generator for the city, according to, according budget documents.

Live Oak City Council unanimously voted for a no-new-revenue property tax rate of $0.386734 per $100 valuation July 29.

Updates on local transportation and business are some of the key headlines from Community Impact San Antonio metro coverage for the week of Sept. 8-12.

• A New Braunfels repaving project is now complete
• Zoning ratification for a Boerne Buc-ee's is postponed
• A new round of Schertz street construction is nearing its start
• Exciting fall events throughout New Braunfels
• Businesses now open and coming soon in North San Antonio

Bexar County Commissioners Court adopted its fiscal year 2025-26 budget during its Sept. 8 meeting.

The overview: The total adopted budget for all funds is $2.8 billion and includes a $1 billion general fund, which is $138 million more than FY 2024-25’s general fund budget of $901 million. Other budgets include a $560 million capital projects budget, $992 million operating appropriations budget, $174 million for debt service and $270 million in carry forward funding.

 Sorting out details: County officials have also adopted the tax rate of $0.299999, which is the same tax rate the county has adopted since FY 2019-20. According to county documents, the adopted tax rate is below the state-calculated no new revenue rate and represents a continued reduction in taxes.

The commissioners court has continually lowered the property tax rate over the years and has implemented other saving measures, such as a senior citizen tax freeze. According to county documents, these measures have netted $2.8 billion in cumulative savings to county taxpayers.