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Last week we welcomed a record number of students back for a new school year. It's always a joy to see the students' excitement as they meet their teachers, greet fellow classmates and get ready to learn.
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Visiting our schools over the first few days of the new school year and seeing our students' smiling faces has been a joy. With over 400 new students enrolled, the hard work of our staff is evident in every aspect of our district's operations. From prekindergarten to high school, our staff is prepared and excited about serving our nearly 12,000 students and their families for 2018-2019.
This summer our school leaders discussed ways that we could create moments that matter for our students. Whether it's making an event extra special or celebrating an individual student, we recognize that we have the opportunity to create something remarkable. We want to connect with our students and help them grow and develop academically, emotionally, and socially. We want our students to reflect back on their time in our classrooms and schools with the confidence that what happened here mattered.
In only the second week of school, we have already created some great moments with our students. Those moments are a product of preparation by a dedicated team of educators who love children and want the best for them.
The reality is that meaningful moments aren't just made by our staff. They are also created by a community that supports our kids.
Earlier this month, over 1,200 of our students were provided school supplies by the Mt. Zion Methodist Church and Project Apple Tree. These two outstanding groups have worked tirelessly year after year to gather donations and supplies in order to ensure that our children have what they need to successfully start a new school year. Seeing the faces of the children as they received their supplies was a wonderful moment.
On Friday, the Tigers will open their season with a non-district matchup against Austin Westlake. It's always exciting to watch our student athletes take the field, but the first home game of the season is special. The way this community comes together to support not just our football team, but also the band, cheerleaders, dance team, trainers, and all of the students who have a part in Friday nights at Tiger Field is unlike anything else. I hope you will join as the community comes together to create some special moments with our students.
This is going to be a great year in Belton ISD!
Sincerely,
Susan Kincannon, Ed.D.
Superintendent
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Belton ISD employees gathered at the Bell County Expo Center for Convocation 2018 to celebrate a new school year. The Marching 100, Magic Belles, and cheerleaders performed, and the Marine Corps Junior ROTC Color Guard presented the colors.
Our wonderful Lakewood Elementary Choir gave an enthusiastic performance! This year's theme was "Creating Moments that Matter."
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What a great early morning turnout by our students, faculty and community during a Spirit Week live broadcast by KWTX! We are looking forward to another great year for all our athletes! GO TIGERS!
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We hope you will join us for the Belton Educational Enrichment Foundation annual fundraising event as they fulfill their mission to award grants to teachers and paraprofessionals and scholarships to graduating seniors.
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2018-2019 Board Officers are Sue M. Jordan, President, Jeff Norwood, Vice President, and Janet Leigh, Secretary.
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Message from the School Board President:
Along with the exciting start of a new school year, the Belton ISD Board of Trustees took another significant step forward on the Roadmap to 2025 plan to address the District's continued fast growth.
In the first of five public meetings held this week, parents representing every campus in the district, city and community representatives, along with teachers and departmental staff came together to begin the process of rezoning elementary, middle school and high school attendance boundaries. This process is designed to be open and inclusive in order to develop boundaries that will serve our students, parents and community for years to come.
New boundaries are necessary because of the District's growth and the convening of the Attendance Boundaries Committee is another step in a process that this community started back in 2013. As the District began to study issues related to opening a second high school, the Board hosted a series of listening sessions for the community to discuss the District's growth and hear from demographers about what the road ahead would hold for enrollment.
Together, with our fellow parents, neighbors and district administrators, the Board developed a facilities plan, The Roadmap to BISD 2025, which called for building a new elementary school and a new comprehensive high school, along with repurposing the current ninth grade campus to serve as a middle school again. In May 2017, voters approved a bond election to fund the construction of the new campuses and many of you helped us celebrate the groundbreakings for Charter Oak Elementary and Lake Belton High School earlier this year.
At this time next year, the new Charter Oak Elementary will be open and the following year Lake Belton High School will welcome ninth and tenth grade students. The Attendance Boundaries Committee will work this fall to make boundary recommendations to the Board of Trustees in January 2019. This timeline was designed with students and families in mind. Students pre-registering for ninth grade in the spring of 2019 will know if they are zoned for Belton High School or Lake Belton High School in the fall of 2020.
One of Belton ISD's biggest strengths is the continued involvement of our community. Whether it be serving on citizen committees like the Attendance Boundaries Committee, joining a PTA or booster club, or volunteering at a campus, community members being engaged in our schools makes a big difference for our kids.
Over the last five years, I have described my role on the school board as volunteerism at its best and to be continuing my service now as the Belton ISD Board President is something for which I am truly grateful. On behalf of my fellow Board members, Vice President Jeff Norwood, Secretary Janet Leigh, Ty Taggart, and Chris Flor, I want to thank you for your support of our students. We look forward to creating moments that matter together this school year!
Sincerely,
Sue M. Jordan
President, Board of Trustees
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We are so proud of the community's effort to support our children. Volunteers worked hard buying and sorting clothing and supplies up until distribution day, when over 1.100 students received a backpack, school supplies and an outfit for the first day of school. Project Apple Tree began 18 years ago with the goal of ensuring all students have a great start to the school year.
Belton ISD and the City of Belton welcomed students at Mt. Zion's annual Back to School with God event.
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