The Ysleta Independent School District enrollment numbers are declining faster than the district projected, losing 1,400 – or about 4% – of its student population in the 2025-26 academic year.
The district this summer budgeted for a loss of 1,000 students for the current school year, forcing district leaders to reevaluate the budget and reduce spending on top of previously implemented cuts.
Though enrollment at YISD has been on the decline over the last decade, it has accelerated in the last five years since the COVID-19 pandemic. That has led some district leaders, including Trustee Chris Hernandez, to worry the large loss of students “signals a long-term structural enrollment decline that short-term controls alone cannot fix.”…