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Spring Branch Independent School District is a Chapter 41 district — also known as a Robin Hood or Recapture district. Spring Branch ISD educates 35,000 children, many of whom — 57% — are economically disadvantaged. Governor Abbott included SBISD’s 2018 tax letter in his report on school finance as an example of how districts across the state of Texas are struggling financially due to the State’s reliance of your property tax dollars and a very broken school funding formula.

Click here to read SBISD’s 2018 TAX LETTER — alerting taxpayers that they are sending an additional $17M to Austin this year and that much of these additional funds will not stay in SBISD. 

Click here to view the 2018 TAX LETTER GRAPHIC — that breaks down the detrimental effects SBISD’s unsustainable Recapture payment is having on SBISD’s campuses and students in stark numbers.