The Socorro Independent School District invites students, parents, employees, community members, and constituents to participate in the 2022 SISD Redistricting Community Survey. The survey will collect invaluable feedback from SISD stakeholders regarding the proposed redistricting boundaries in SISD. Click here to participate now in the SISD Redistricting Community Survey.
Redistricting rebalances the total Socorro ISD population throughout the single-member districts solely for electoral purposes. It does not add new districts. Any neighborhood that is in Socorro ISD will stay in Socorro ISD, and any neighborhood that is currently in a neighboring school district will stay in that neighboring school district. Redistricting does not impact attendance zones, feeder patterns, or other aspects of school district operations.
SISD has seven school board trustees; five are elected from single-member districts and 2 are elected at-large. Every ten years following the U.S. Census, Texas Education Code Section 11.052 will require Socorro ISD to redraw the boundaries of the 5 single-member districts it uses to elect trustees if the most populous single-member district exceeds the total population of the least populous district by more than 10 percent. In other words, district boundaries should be redrawn to ensure each district has nearly equal population. The release of the 2020 U.S. Census data confirmed that Socorro ISD must redistrict.
The goal of Socorro ISD’s redistricting process will be to redraw single-member district boundary lines to correct population imbalances in a way that is consistent with legal requirements and in a way that makes sense for the Socorro ISD school community.
Take the SISD Redistricting Community Survey.
Read more about the proposed 2022 SISD Redistricting.
Published October 11, 2022
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