Marble Falls Independent School District

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Marble Falls Independent School District ("MFISD") is a school district based in the city of Marble Falls, in Burnet County, Texas, United States.

MFISD is located in the heart of the Highland Lakes region of the Texas Hill Country. The district encompasses 268 square miles and serves the communities of Marble Falls, Meadowlakes, Granite Shoals, Highland Haven, Cottonwood, Fairland, Smithwick, Spicewood, and portions of Horseshoe Bay.

MFISD has a growing enrollment of approximately 4,000 students.

The district has four elementary schools, all of which have pre-kindergarten through 5th grades: Colt Elementary, Marble Falls Elementary, Highland Lakes Elementary (a 2004 National Blue Ribbon School [1]), and Spicewood Elementary.

MFISD has three secondary campuses: Marble Falls Middle School (grades 6-8), Falls Career High School, and Marble Falls High School (grades 9-12). Marble Falls High School is classified as a 4A school by the University Interscholastic League.

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[edit] Falls Career High School

Falls Career High School is an alternative high school program in run in MFISD that allows high school-aged students to concurrently work and attend school.[2]

The current criteria for acceptance include the student's age, a minimum number of credits earned toward graduation, and being in circumstances where they are at-risk of or have dropped out of school, are unable to graduate with their cohort class, or a traditional high school cannot meet his/her needs.

Falls Career High School was piloted in August of 2002 and there were 46 students in the first graduating class of 2003. Since its inception, the Falls Career program has been housed with the school district's offices in the Granite Building across the street from Marble Falls Elementary School.

The successful passage of a November 2006 bond election included a provision to re-purpose the current Colt Elementary building into a new central office for the district and Falls Career/EPIC program once a new building for the elementary school is completed.[3]

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  1. ^ Microsoft Word - list-2003.doc
  2. ^ Timmons, Angela (2006-12-07). "Marble Falls student killed in weekend accident". Burnet Bulletin.
  3. ^ Marble Falls ISD News. November 22, 2006.

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