Right after Viviana Villanueva finishes graduating from the Advanced Learning Academy (ALA) Wednesday, she and three rising seniors from the school s Modern Band program are headed to Tennessee to per...Read more...

Days before her graduation, Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Esmeralda Huerta, Battalion Commander of the Jefferson High School JROTC, will be representing the state of Texas at the National World War II Muse...Read more...

Diego Guzman is just a few days away from his next steps toward being a museum director. The 2025 valedictorian of Young Men's Leadership Academy is one of only 750 students nationwide, and only three...Read more...

For a group of five Brackenridge High School seniors, the week after school gets out will be a whirlwind. On June 3, they cross the stage at Freeman Coliseum for their high school graduation, and two ...Read more...

Miryam Gonzalez, a dual language Pre-K Head Start teacher at Sarah King Elementary, has been awarded a 2025 Trinity Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Gonzalez and 15 other distinguished educators nomi...Read more...

Last week the Education Technology Department celebrated the winners of the 2025 SAISD Film Festival. This year, there were 132 submissions. All students that submitted a film received certificates an...Read more...

Kimberly Williams, a second grade teacher at M.L. King Academy and the school's 2025 Teacher of the Year, is San Antonio ISD's nominee for Alamo Area Alliance of Black School Educators Teacher of the ...Read more...

As part of Teacher Appreciation Week, San Antonio ISD recognized its Teachers of the Year. Seventy-nine teachers were honored May 8 at the Alamo Convocation Center. The Teacher of the Year award honor...Read more...

As part of Teacher Appreciation Week, San Antonio ISD recognized its outstanding first-year Rising Star teachers. Fourty-six teachers were honored May 6 at the Alamo Convocation Center. The Rising Sta...Read more...

Last week, Shantell Colebrooke, a teacher at Lanier High School and Esmeralda Alday, Executive Director of Dual Language, ESL & Migrant were surprised with the good news that they were receiving award...Read more...

The Office of Family and Community Engagement (FACE) has been honored with the prestigious 2025 Anita Villarreal Innovation in Engagement Award, presented by the Title I, Part A Parent and Family Enga...Read more...

As they get ready to transition to college, nine district seniors have received the timely news they are 2025 Dell Scholars. The students from CAST Tech High School, Fox Tech High School and Travis Ea...Read more...

When Ruby Angeles first heard about the construction program at Phoenix Middle College, she was intrigued. With some family members in the industry, she knew it was a stable line of work where she cou...Read more...

The Venues at San Fernando Cathedral s San Fernando Ballroom was full of glitz and glam Saturday as the Lanier Voks took over the location for their junior senior prom. In the background, two chaperon...Read more...

Thirty high school girls representing 10 campuses across the district had the opportunity to attend the Girls Policy Leadership program last month, hosted by Voice4Equity and Discovery Education. The ...Read more...

After a huge effort over the last eight weeks, the Office of Family and Community Engagement is in a final push this week to receive responses to its annual Family Survey, which asks questions about h...Read more...

Students at Cooper Academy at Navarro recently had the opportunity to help restore the impressive mural that adorns the northern wall of their campus. The piece, entitled All the Difference, was origi...Read more...

The construction programs at Sam Houston and Lanier high schools visited the nonprofit organization Sleep in Heavenly Peace l ast week to build bed frames for children who do not currently have beds. ...Read more...

More than 65 high school students in four comprehensive high schools are receiving some life-changing investment tips through the First Generation Investors program. The program, founded in Philadelph...Read more...

Several San Antonio ISD schools kicked off their spring break by giving back to the community at the 30th annual Basura Bash River and Waterway Cleanup, which focused on removing trash and litter from...Read more...

The Construction programs at Jefferson, Lanier and Sam Houston high schools are working with the San Antonio Chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace (SHP) , a volunteer organization with a mission to provi...Read more...

At the start of each school day, the first person a student could see is not their teacher or principal. Any guesses who? Drum roll, please. It's their bus driver or bus monitor. For students who ride...Read more...

Viviana Castilleja was on her way to take her grandmother home from a music club fundraiser at Peter Piper Pizza last month when she saw something catch her eye: fire. She and her family were travelin...Read more...

For Mariana Moran, the dual language education she received in San Antonio ISD was the gift of a lifetime a gift she plans on passing down to younger generations. A 2022 graduate of the dual language ...Read more...

This month, the Office of Strategy shared the initial results of the Fall 2024 Facilities Repurposing Survey . The survey, which is still open, has now collected more than 9,400 results since October,...Read more...

When Zoe Gonzalez heard about the Agricultural Science program at Burbank High School, she knew she had to go. The junior, who commutes more than 20 minutes each way from the eastern end of the county...Read more...

The call to counseling came quite naturally to Bernice Adams. The proud San Antonio ISD alumna and counselor at Poe Middle School was teaching fifth grade math, and learned it was helpful to start the...Read more...

When Dalphine Himes started at Arnold Elementary, the view across Freiling Street was pasture. "There was a stable up there," Himes said. "I used to look out the window and see the horses running." Th...Read more...

Members of the San Antonio ISD Familia celebrated the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the city's 38th annual march and celebration on Jan. 20. The route began at M.L. King Academy, and partic...Read more...

San Antonio ISD has eight QuestBridge College Match recipients representing six high school campuses this year. These seniors have been awarded full scholarships to some of the most prestigious colleg...Read more...

The district's newest National Board Certified Teachers (NBCT) will be recognized at a formal pinning ceremony Jan. 25 at the Texas National Board Coalition for Teaching conference at Education Servic...Read more...

Thomas Martinez remembers seeing a flyer for St. Philip's Early College High School that piqued his interest. It was 2015, and the Harris Middle School eighth grader considered the amount of college c...Read more...

District and community leaders gathered at the Young Men's Leadership Academy Monday, Jan. 13 to celebrate the school's 10th anniversary. The school, whose mission is to create young men with characte...Read more...

Classrooms were filled with laughter and purpose one evening before break as Democracy Prep at Stewart hosted a family math night: Food and Fractions with Families. More than 20 families attended, lea...Read more...

As three dozen folklórico students file into the Highland Hills Elementary School gym, their excitement is visible as they hurriedly reach into an oversized black plastic bag for the bright colorful r...Read more...

To celebrate Texas and America Recycles Day Nov. 15, the SAISD Foundation invited representatives from 24 district schools to Sarah King Elementary to learn who had created the biggest recycling impac...Read more...

To recognize the critical role substitute educators play in supporting our students and schools, the district celebrated recipients of its inaugural SAISD Substitute Educator Excellence Awards. The aw...Read more...

The week before Thanksgiving, nearly 1,600 fourth grade students from across the district got a greater understanding of the origins of their food. Agriculture science students at Burbank High School ...Read more...

The SAISD Curriculum, Instruction, & Assessment team collaborated with the Dual Language, ESL & Migrant team to hold the District's Annual Spanish Spelling Bee Competition this week. Eighty-eight stud...Read more...

Nearly 200 high school students from 13 San Antonio ISD high schools have earned academic honors from the College Board National Recognition Program this fall. The program celebrates the hard work of ...Read more...

When Woodlawn Academy principal Luis De La Garza talks with students about his time in the military, he tells a story of failure turned into opportunity. "The Army did a lot more for me than I ever di...Read more...

Jimmy Carter was president of the United States. "Grease" was the top selling movie. And a gallon of gas cost 65 cents. The year was 1978, the last time the Burbank Bulldogs won a football district ch...Read more...

The area under Interstate 35 near Houston Street got a little bit brighter thanks to a group of more than 30 committed National Art Honor Society students from the Young Women s Leadership Academy. Th...Read more...

There s a new engineering team at Ogden Elementary this year. About a dozen committed third, fourth and fifth graders, led by third grade teacher Ralph Gomez, are using STEM to have a lot of fun while...Read more...

In honor of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the Office of Information Technology and the SAISD Foundation have teamed up for the fourth annual Cybersecurity art contest. Students had the opportunity to...Read more...

"The more volunteers you have, the more fun the kids have" - Rosie Cruz. Sitting in the hallways of Burbank High School with volunteer Rosie Cruz gives you an immediate sense of how much the volunteer...Read more...

Lisa Jones didn't set out originally to be a teacher. Inspired by her high school science and math teachers, she developed a passion for STEM and pursued a career in electrical engineering. She worked...Read more...

Wafting into the hallway of the Edison Fine Arts building each Tuesday and Thursday morning are the sounds of pure joy. The strong foundation of the bajo quinto and the bright clear notes of the accor...Read more...

When Nikki Martinez walks down the hallways of Ogden Elementary with her principal cart, she occasionally hears a "Hi Mama!" As both principal and parent to three of her own children at Ogden, she doe...Read more...

Robert B. Green Elementary at Riverside Park was announced Sept. 23 as an exemplary high performing school by the U.S. Department of Education. Green Elementary is the only school from the San Antonio...Read more...

More than 200 campus and district leaders and staff attended professional development Sept. 20 to hear from Dr. Karen Mapp, senior lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Ka...Read more...

As the Children's Cabinet embarks on its second full academic year together, the group of committed families, alumni, district employees, students and community members representing local businesses, ...Read more...

Click the image above to watch the interview courtesy of News-O-Matic This Hispanic Heritage Month, Franklin Elementary student Sophia Varela had the opportunity of a lifetime. The fifth grader at the...Read more...

It's not unusual for students to feel shy with new classmates at the beginning of the school year. But Maverick Elementary School Counselor Jeanette Zuniga and her puppets have a fun and identifiable ...Read more...

One of the joys in blending campuses this year is creating new traditions. Dr. Stephanie Ratliff wasted no time. The veteran principal moved, with many of the staff and students, from Douglass to Herf...Read more...

The Beat the Heat program, a partnership between Postsecondary Initiatives and the SAISD Foundation, brought in big gains in its third year as more students from the Class of 2024 received assistance ...Read more...

A lot can change in five years. But one thing that hasn't is the administrative team at Will Rogers Academy. Principal Zada Fowler and assistant principals Abel Hernandez and Jesus Solis all started a...Read more...

San Antonio ISD is giving updates through a series of public meetings to explain the process and timeline for the repurposing of buildings, which became available after the board s 2023 rightsizing de...Read more...

St. Philip's Early College High School celebrated its first 10 years serving students Friday, Aug. 16 with a ribbon cutting on the newly remodeled Bowden Legacy Building. The event was part of the Leg...Read more...

As of 11th grade, Inez Martinez had never visited a college campus. But that changed suddenly when the Sam Houston High School senior found herself living at the University of Texas at San Antonio for...Read more...

Growing up in San Antonio, Janet Hester remembers her mother taking her to the public library. "I would get totally immersed in all the books," said Hester. "It's important to be a good reader just fo...Read more...

As St. Philip's Early College High School prepares to celebrate its 10th anniversary this month, the school does so with the added distinction of holding a U.S. News and World Report Best High Schools...Read more...

San Antonio ISD has been named a District of Distinction with The Texas Art Education Association (TAEA). TAEA announced the 94 winners of the 2024 District of Distinction Award in July. Districts rec...Read more...

San Antonio ISD schools celebrated increasing overall student attendance by 1.1% in the 2023-2024 school year, an increase that secured $3.52 million in additional state funding over the previous year...Read more...

Sam Houston High School band director Bruce Adams used to watch Barry Manilow on television as a kid. Adams had no idea that his future teaching career would end up earning him an award from the famou...Read more...

Every single day this summer, a member of the agriculture education team at Burbank High School has visited the campus. The tasks are constant there are crops to be maintained in the fields. There are...Read more...

Ball Elementary second grade teacher Bianca Darley has been selected for the 2024-2025 Texas Education Agency Teacher Leadership Fellowship. TEA's fellowship is a highly selective two-year commitment ...Read more...

Every morning Sophia Ramirez would see the Harvard University flag hanging prominently in the hallway at Young Women's Leadership Academy. She assumed this meant a Cardinal previously attended the Ivy...Read more...

The San Antonio Independent School District launched its Dual Language program with two schools, Mark Twain, and Washington Irving elementary schools in 2016. Both campuses offered a full Dual Languag...Read more...

They're back. The Fox Tech SkillsUSA Career Pathway Showcase team is back in Atlanta for their second consecutive appearance in the national competition. The three-person team, composed of Isabel Cort...Read more...

The San Antonio ISD Board of Trustees approved a 2% general pay increase for all full-time, permanent employees during a specially called board meeting on June 10. The board also voted on increasing e...Read more...

As the school year came to a close, Bonham Academy marked a special anniversary: five years of Mexican American Studies (MAS) at the K-8 academy. The State Board of Education (SBOE) approved MAS as a ...Read more...

It is a bittersweet time of year for school districts across the nation. High school seniors say farewell to their classmates as they branch out into the world to pursue higher education, begin a care...Read more...

Located on the East Side of San Antonio, Douglass Elementary School has been educating the children of the surrounding communities since 1868, when the school became San Antonio s first free public sc...Read more...

For the past 22 years, Pre-K teacher Jill Ruiz has loved working at Pershing Elementary. "It immediately felt like home. That's why I never left," said Ruiz. Now the veteran teacher has at least 7,000...Read more...

Jefferson High School senior Abigail Villarreal has a busy couple of weeks coming up. On June 6, she crosses the stage with her classmates at Freeman Coliseum. Three days later, she turns 18. But in t...Read more...

Soly Gutierrez said he can remember his dad talking about airplanes at the dinner table. Sometimes, he'd get to go with his dad an aircraft line maintenance technician to work, and the planes filled h...Read more...

Bella Anderson has always dabbled in art. "I've always had an interest in art because both of my parents have always been pretty creative," the Fox Tech High School senior said. I ve been drawing sinc...Read more...

On Thursday, May 16 the Education Technology Department celebrated the winners of the 2024 SAISD Film Festival. This year, there were 173 submissions. All students that submitted a film received certi...Read more...

The last week of school will look a little different this year for Longfellow science teacher Eliza Vela, who learned this spring that she is one of 10 middle school teachers nationwide accepted for t...Read more...

Bruce Adams, band director at Sam Houston High School and the school's 2024 Teacher of the Year, was named the Secondary Teacher of the Year by the Alamo Area Alliance of Black School Educators at a b...Read more...

Sharon Martinez, a dual language third grade teacher at Cotton Academy, has been awarded a 2024 Trinity Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Martinez and 13 other distinguished educators nominated by are...Read more...

As part of Teacher Appreciation Week, San Antonio ISD recognized its Teachers of the Year. Ninety-two teachers were honored May 9 at the Alamo Convocation Center. The Teacher of the Year award honors ...Read more...

This Teacher Appreciation Week, 284 teachers in San Antonio ISD received notification that they were designated as Recognized, Exemplary, or Master as part of the Texas Education Agency s Teacher Ince...Read more...

As part of Teacher Appreciation Week, San Antonio ISD recognized its outstanding first-year Rising Star teachers. Fifty-two teachers were honored May 7 at the Alamo Convocation Center. The Rising Star...Read more...

A wall on the back side of Arnold Elementary is looking a lot brighter after the school's community came together with local artist Albert Gonzales to create a mural inspired by his Wabi Sabi Project ...Read more...

It was a "world of pure imagination" last week at the Wonder Theatre of San Antonio as 31 three- and four-year-old students from Nelson Early Childhood Education Center performed a Willy Wonka-themed ...Read more...

Located just south of downtown San Antonio, Green Elementary School has been educating the children of the Lavaca and surrounding communities since 1915. The school was named after Robert B. Green, a ...Read more...

Fraternal twins Emma and Sarah Vargas both want to be teachers, and they are especially drawn to becoming bilingual teachers. As students in San Antonio ISD, they are at the right place at the right t...Read more...

Students in San Antonio ISD have even more access to comprehensive emotional, psychological, and social well-being care, following a $2,690,608 boost from the U.S. Department of Education under the Me...Read more...

As they get ready to transition to college, nine district seniors have received the timely news they are 2024 Dell Scholars. The students from Fox Tech High School and Travis Early College High School...Read more...

It was definitely a case of being at the right place at the right time. Officer Monica Carreon, a member of the SAISD Police Mental Health CARE Team, had just finished doing five elementary stop-and-w...Read more...

When the moon passed between the earth and the sun for the second time this school year in South Texas, San Antonio ISD schools were ready. Across the district on Monday, April 8, classes exited their...Read more...

As families and staff get to know each other through Blending the Familia events, we continue to celebrate the history and culture that closing campuses will take with them to new parts of the distric...Read more...

Kelly Elementary students crowded into the gym Thursday afternoon for a surprise announcement that resulted in an eruption of cheers and applause when they learned their new blended campus next school...Read more...

San Antonio ISD Child Nutrition Services received "The Turnip the Beet Award Gold" from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for its efforts in summer meals during Summer 2023. The Turni...Read more...

Maria Mengrone grew up with challenges. "We didn't have much. I shared clothes with my sisters. We borrowed school supplies since we couldn't purchase our own," said Mengrone. "Our story was the story...Read more...

Leslie Ortiz was in dance practice when they made the announcement the day before spring break, so she didn't hear. Then assistant principal Erik Sanchez showed up at the studio to take the Burbank 10...Read more...

More than 400 students from 31 San Antonio ISD campuses, plus district staff and board members participated in the 28th Annual Cesar E. Chavez March for Justice Saturday, March 23. The SAISD cohort wh...Read more...

San Antonio ISD is an inclusive familia that is the destination for transformational learning that makes the impossible a reality by demonstrating an urgent and relentless commitment to love, nurture,...Read more...