Attendance Zones

The Leander ISD Street Directory Listing enables families to find the school that their student(s) are zoned to attend. To locate this information, please search the document linked above for your street name. The directory listing contains street names, address ranges, and direction if it applies (i.e. N for north, S for South) as well as a column indicating Odd, Even or Both. In some cases, you will find that a street name and number will attend a particular school based on the street number being odd or even.

• Street Directory Listing
• Neighborhood Codes by Subdivision
• Campus Code Listing

Year to year, there are changes in the attendance zones once approved by the LISD Board of Trustees. Please refer to the Street Directory Listing to see which school your student is zoned to attend. The approved attendance zone maps are listed below.

2023-24 Maps

• 2023-24 Elementary School
• 2023-24 Middle School
• 2023-24 High School

2024-25 Maps

• 2024-25 Elementary School
• 2024-25 Middle School
• 2024-25 High School

This product is for informational purposes and may not have been prepared for or be suitable for legal, engineering, or surveying purposes. It does not represent an on-the-ground survey and represents only the approximate relative location of property boundaries.

Each October, Leander ISD receives an annual demographic update from Population and Survey Analysts (PASA). By studying student residential locations, potential growth and decline, housing trends, and economic factors inherent to the district, PASA considered the expected long‐term trends for the district and created a dataset to use in planning for the next 10 years.

Attendance Zoning Recommendations:

• Must provide for safety and efficiency.
• Shall not be constrained by previous attendance zone actions or guidelines.
• Shall not be constrained by the current boundary lines.
• Utilize enrollment projections, construction schedules, and other pertinent data as a basis for development.
• Wherever possible, should include balanced enrollment sizes at existing campuses (and considering campus capacities.)
• Neighborhood code designations may only be adjusted by the administration.

The Board process is as follows Flow Chart Graphic

1. District staff utilizes the parameters set by the Long-Range Planning Committee to prepare for the upcoming zoning process, project plan and charter. The Long-Range Plan parameters are:
   • Strengthen the student experience
     • Establish long-term stability
     • Access to choice options
     • Honor neighborhood school concept for schools where we are still able to meet the intent of the Long-Range Plan
   • Prioritize fiscal responsibility
     • Maximize usage of district facilities
       • Strategic rezoning
       • Modified Utilization
     • Defer timing of future construction
2. District staff presents the project plan and summarizes the charter to the Board for review.
3. Board approves the project process and charter.
4. District staff creates possible attendance zoning scenarios.
5. District staff communicates and publishes (district website, social media, LISD news articles, Compass newsletters) the scenarios for public comment.
6. District facilitates numerous opportunities for community input (e-survey, Let’sTalk form, in-person and virtual forums.)
7. Decision point: If additional modification is needed the process will repeat from step 4 (District staff will adjust and re-create scenarios for further input.) or if the plan is solid, scenarios will be finalized and move to step 8.
8. District staff develops a Recommendation Report.
9. Long-Range Planning Committee Reviews Recommendation Report and ensures intent.
10. District presents Recommendation Report to Board.
11. Board reviews and adopts the final zoning plan
12. District shares final plan with community
13. Implementation of Plan

The Board will evaluate presented scenarios, taking into consideration necessary criteria and feedback from the public/community. Upon completion of this process, the Board will adopt the school attendance zones.

In an effort to increase the opportunities for community members and/or parents, the District is providing the following methods for feedback:

• Click on this Let’s Talk link to submit a question regarding Attendance Zoning.
• You can also contact the Facility and Operations department at 512-570-0400.
• Staff will conduct at least two public forums to present the recommended scenario. Please check the Attendance Zones page for more information.

Leander ISD will continue to open schools to meet the needs of student enrollment growth. The district will always try to not move students within the same grade group (elementary, high school, middle school) more than twice in a two-year period.

A formal decision on transfer policy is made at the end of the zoning process when the Board adopts the new zone.

Any transfer exceptions regarding these potential zoning changes will be discussed and adopted along with the zoning scenario.

Students zoned to a new campus have no issues being eligible to immediately participate in UIL activities for that school.

Similarly, if a student is granted a transfer back to their former (as opposed to their assigned) campus, UIL participation eligibility will be unaffected so long as the student has completed a year of study at that campus.

If a freshman student is granted a voluntary transfer to a campus other than the one they are assigned, per LISD transfer guidelines, they are ineligible to participate in competitions for one calendar year. After a year at the campus, they are eligible to play at the varsity level.

If you have any questions regarding UIL eligibility as it relates to rezoning, click on this Let’s Talk link.

While we work to achieve these three priorities that our community has deemed most important, that simply isn’t possible in most of the district.

For example, if you relieve overcrowding at one school, you could create a split feeder pattern or send students to a school farther from their neighborhood. In developing the proposed plan, LISD sought to balance each priority as best as possible.

Overcrowded schools create a higher need for portable buildings and lead to other adjustments, such as crowded and mixed grade level lunch periods and hallways; increased number of academic teams; and impacts to participation on competitive teams and performance groups.

When school enrollments exceed the building’s capacity, LISD may need to adjust school administrative staffing, traffic patterns and safety protocols.