North East Independent School District

North East Independent School District
Location
8961 Tesoro Drive San Antonio, TX 78217 Bexar County, TX United States of America
District information
Type	Public school district
Grades	Pre-K - 12[1]
Established	1950 (1950)
Superintendent	Dr. Brian Gottardy
Accreditation(s)	Texas Education Agency United States Department of Education
Schools	Churchill High School Johnson High School Lee High School MacArthur High School Madison High School Reagan High School Roosevelt High School 14 middle schools 46 elementary schools
Budget	$539.6 million [1]
District ID	4832940
Students and staff
Students	67,971[1]
Teachers	4,294[1]
Staff	9,209[1]
Athletic conference	District 26-6A
Other information
2015 Accountability Rating	Met Standard[2]
Website	neisd.net

The North East Independent School District (commonly NEISD or North East ISD) is a school district located in Bexar County, Texas, (USA). North East ISD serves the north central and northeast areas of Bexar County, covering approximately 144 square miles (370 km²). North East ISD serves the cities of San Antonio, Castle Hills, Hill Country Village, Hollywood Park, Windcrest, and portions of Balcones Heights and Terrell Hills. North East ISD is the second largest school district serving the San Antonio area by student attendance, following Northside.

Shanley v. North East ISD

North East ISD was the defendant in Shanley v. Northeast Independent School District, a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling which declared that North East ISD had an overly broad policy and the district's suspension of five students had interfered with their rights to free speech under the United States Constitution. North East had suspended five high school students for publishing an unapproved newsletter and then distributed it to students near campus before and after school hours. The NEISD school board declared the content, which included information about birth control and advocated for the review of marijuana laws, to be inappropriate and controversial. The Court found that public schools can limit the expression of its students when it materially and substantially interferes with school activities, or with the rights of teachers and other students, but not at non-school-sponsored events, and the district cannot exceed its authority to forbid or punish on-campus activity when punishing off-campus activity.

It should come as a shock to the parents of five high school seniors that their elected school board had assumed [control] over their children before and after school, off school grounds, and with regard to their children’s rights [of] expressing their thoughts ... We trust that it will come as no shock to the school board that their assumption of authority is an unconstitutional usurption of the First Amendment.^[3]

A North East administrative facility located in the same complex as the Academy of Creative Education bears the district logo.

Student Information

Demographics

Students by Grade

Schools

High Schools

The district's seven main high school campuses are named after nationally or internationally renowned persons.

Secondary Campuses

• Academy of Creative Education (ACE)

Magnet Programs

North East offers seven magnet programs housed at four main campuses, and an additional program at the Perrin Central complex. Each of these programs operates with various levels of autonomy and integration with its primary campus.

Middle Schools

All of the district's middle schools are named after Texas-renowned persons.

• Bradley Middle School
  • National Blue Ribbon School in 1986-87^[5]
• Bush Middle School
• Driscoll Middle School
• Eisenhower Middle School
  • National Blue Ribbon School in 1988-89^[5]
• Garner Middle School
• Harris Middle School
• Hill Middle School
• Jackson Middle School
• Krueger Middle School
  • Interactive Media Applications at Krueger
  • Krueger School of Applied Technologies
  • Rencon
• Lopez Middle School
• Nimitz Middle School
• Tejeda Middle School
• White Middle School
• Wood Middle School

Elementary Schools

The district's elementary schools are named in coordination with the neighborhood or community name. The year the school opened is in parentheses.

Athletic Facilities

In addition to on-campus facilities, the district owns and operates a number of sports venues. Among these are two 11,000-seat football stadiums, Heroes Stadium and Comalander Stadium, the Josh Davis Natatorium, and baseball, soccer, and tennis facilities at the Blossom Athletic Center. The district signed a 50 year rent-free lease to operate Time Warner Cable Park on Wetmore Road from the City of San Antonio in 2015.^[8][9]

See also

• List of school districts in Texas

References

1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 NEISD Factsheet 2015-2016 - (PDF). Retrieved on 07 Jan 2016.
2. ↑ "2015 Accountability Summary NORTH EAST ISD (015910)" (PDF). Texas Education Agency. 
3. ↑ "SPLC Report". Student Press Law Center. Retrieved 21 February 2012. 
4. ↑ NEISD Factsheet 2014-2015 - (PDF). Retrieved on 17 Sep 2014.
5. 1 2 3 4 5 Blue Ribbon Schools Program, Schools Recognized 1982-1983 Through 1999-2002 (PDF)
6. 1 2 Microsoft Word - 2007-schools.doc
7. ↑
8. ↑ http://www.neisd.net/ComRel/news.cfm?ID=1390
9. ↑ http://www.expressnews.com/news/education/article/NEISD-to-operate-Time-Warner-Cable-Park-6512487.php

External links

• North East ISD