What to watch: The Midland ISD board will meet Tuesday, Aug. 25, for its first districtwide look at 2026 accountability results, with MISD earning a C, 15 campuses earning an A or B, and five receiving a D or F. Trustees will also consider a state-required corrective action plan after a Texas Education Agency (TEA) review found problems with how MISD handled and reported student discipline.

Key points:

  • 2026 campus ratings: District staff will present preliminary STAAR performance and accountability ratings for MISD and each campus, ahead of TEA’s expected final ratings in December. Fifteen campuses earned an A or B, 19 earned a C-, and five received a D or F. MISD earned a C and a score of 75 out of 100.

Staff will also report progress toward the board’s three student-outcome goals: students performing on grade level, campuses earning at least a B in Domain I, and graduates meeting college, career, or military readiness standards.

  • Improvement plans for every campus: Trustees will hear and vote on improvement plans for all MISD campuses, with principals of schools below an overall B rating scheduled to present their plans to the board. Twenty-three schools earned below a B rating.
  • TEA corrective action over student discipline: Trustees will vote on an agreed Corrective Action Plan with the TEA after a state compliance review found problems with how MISD handled and reported student discipline during the 2024-25 school year.

TEA’s review flagged two issues: out-of-school suspensions that did not fully comply with state law, which limits how long the district can suspend students and when it can use suspensions, and disciplinary incidents that the district did not accurately report through PEIMS, the state system that collects school discipline data.

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  • Taking out bond money: MISD will consider taking out up to $460 million of the $1.4 billion voters already approved in the 2023 bond election. This is not an additional debt beyond the voter-approved bond. Instead, MISD has been borrowing the approved money in stages as construction progresses, and the district says projects are moving faster than expected, so it needs the next portion sooner than originally planned.

The district expects the $460 million to cover about 28 to 32 months of construction spending. After taking out this portion, MISD would have about $55.4 million of the original $1.415 billion authorization left to borrow if needed.

  • November school board ballot set: Trustees will approve the formal notice for the Nov. 3 election now that candidate filing has closed. District 3 incumbent Tommy Bishop faces Tim Lirley. District 5 is an open three-way race between La’Toya Nix Mayberry, Karl Boroski, and Nickolas Joel Jasso after incumbent Brandon Hodges did not seek re-election. District 6 incumbent Sara Burleson is unopposed.

  • MISD PD update: The MISD Police Chief will update trustees on the department’s staffing, campus deployment, and school-safety initiatives. The agenda packet states that MISD Police currently employs more officers than in recent years and is strategically assigning them based on campus safety needs, although it does not provide an officer count or campus-by-campus staffing levels.

    The chief will also report on a new cadet program intended to develop future officers and address staffing needs, the implementation of ZeroEyes for real-time safety alerts, and efforts to strengthen coordination between officers and district administrators.

  • Closed session on two lawsuits: Trustees will receive litigation updates behind closed doors on MISD’s constitutional challenge to Texas’ Robin Hood recapture system and IDEA Public Schools’ lawsuit against MISD over the terminated IDEA Travis partnership. Trustees will also discuss the status of a Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program (JJAEP).