By Megan Wehring  BUDA — Hays CISD is currently sitting at 21,730 students, the highest enrollment in the district’s history, which is an increase of 1,254 students compared to last year.  The growth in the county and across the district’s 221 square-mile radius, Superintendent Dr. Eric Wright and C...

By Megan Wehring   Palmore HAYS COUNTY — After an elementary school teacher was arrested for Indecency with a Child, Hays CISD will move forward with the termination process.   The Kyle Police Department arrested Andrew Palmore, a Blanco Vista Elementary second grade teacher, on Tuesday, March 1 fol...

By Brittany Anderson A new scoreboard is coming to Hays CISD that will benefit students, sports fans and local businesses.   The HCISD Board of Trustees voted 6-1 to purchase a new video scoreboard for the Bob Shelton Stadium at Hays High School during the Feb. 28 regular board meeting. Trustee Espe...

Over the past few weeks, Hays CISD Agricultural Mechanics students at Hays High, Johnson High and Lehman High quite literally made the cut as they constructed numerous wooden picnic tables for use at all of the district campuses. This project was the inspiration of Hays CISD Superintendent Dr. Eric ...

The Hays CISD Administrators, members of the district's Facilities and Bond Oversight Committee (FBOC) and Hays CISD Career and Technical Education (CTE) high school students toured the progress at the Elementary School No. 15 construction site Monday. Guiding the tour were representatives from Bart...

By Brittany Anderson An aerospace program that has seen students go work for NASA, SpaceX and other space travel industries is being considered for Johnson High School (JHS). Hays CISD Superintendent Dr. Eric Wright presented board members with information regarding SystemsGo during the agenda revie...

By Megan Wehring   Superintendent Dr. Eric Wright will continue leading Hays CISD until June 2026.   The Hays CISD Board of Trustees agreed to employ Wright on a twelve-month annual basis from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2026. The district will now pay the superintendent a salary of $334,000 per year —...

By Sahar Chmais UPDATE: In a previous press release issued about the school’s groundbreaking, it stated that the school cost would be $29.5 million. An apology was issued regarding the misinformation with an updated figure that was nearly $38.5 million.  Tom Green Elementary School is going to be ov...

by Sahar Chmais Hays CISD is urging students to attend their classes so the district does not lose millions of dollars in state funds. If in-person attendance in the last six weeks of this school year is not greater than in-person attendance from last October, Hays CISD could lose up to $7 million, ...

By Megan Wehring HAYS CISD — Superintendent Dr. Eric Wright believes that in-person classes in schools is one of the safest places for both students and faculty. The school district has fielded many phone calls and and emails, and Wright says few cases come classes. “Very few [cases] have been trace...