Program Relocation

In-school suspension (ISS): All campuses in LISD have an established ISS process. ISS is used when a student is temporarily removed from the classroom for disciplinary reasons but remains on campus in a supervised setting.

Out-of-school suspension (OSS): OSS occurs when a student is suspended from campus and may not return to campus until the assigned suspension period has concluded.

Disciplinary Alternative Education Program (DAEP): DAEP involves removal from the regular classroom to an alternative education setting, which Texas law says may be located on or off a student’s campus. Placement is legally limited to a location within LISD and is reserved for specific violations outlined in the Student Code of Conduct.

Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program (JJAEP): JJAEP is located in Denton and is overseen by LISD on behalf of Denton County school districts. This program serves students who are expelled for certain violations of the Student Code of Conduct or who are placed by court order due to felony offenses or probation conditions.

Behavior Intervention Classes are specific classroom settings for students with severe emotional/behavioral concerns that adversely affect the student’s learning or the learning environment of others. The BIC classroom provides an educational environment with a high level of structure and individualization to address the student’s social and behavioral skills that are needed to be successful in the general education setting. 

The TEAMS program, currently located at the Student Success Center and proposed to be relocated to the Highland Village Elementary facility, focuses on the instructional and behavior management/social adjustment needs of students who have become persistently disruptive to the educational process despite reasonable attempts in less restrictive settings to help them learn behaviors appropriate for school. These students require very high levels of structure, behavior management procedures that are more restrictive than found on general education campuses, and concentration on learning to function positively in social situations requiring cooperation, compliance with rules and directions and ability to control impulses.

A disciplinary alternative education program (DAEP) is defined as an educational and self-discipline alternative instructional program that students are assigned to for a specified amount of time. DAEP involves removal from the regular classroom to an alternative education setting, which Texas law says may be located on or off a student’s campus. Placement is legally limited to a location within LISD and is reserved for specific violations outlined in the Student Code of Conduct.

Only elementary students will be located on an elementary campus.

The district will establish a separate entrance point as a part of ensuring separation between campus operations and DAEP. When multiple programs are placed on campus footprint, the district works with architects, new construction, and facility services to ensure there is appropriate facility separation. The separate staff who will oversee the program will ensure that procedurally there is separation as well.

Generally, high school serves up to 100 students, middle school up to 60 students, and elementary up to 16 students concurrently, with numbers fluctuating as placements begin and conclude throughout the year. These numbers would essentially be split in half with two DAEP programs at each of the elementary, middle, and high school proposed locations.

Many campuses were identified to be operating below optimal capacity during the Community Efficiency Committee process during the Spring/Fall of 2024. The campuses identified during that process were considered to receive a program as part of the district’s ongoing efforts to adjust operations as enrollment continues to decline. Additionally, the district took into account the geographic impact on students and families. Centralizing programs too far from certain feeder patterns can create accessibility challenges, especially along major traffic corridors like Business 121 or for programs with limited transportation options.

No. State law requires that students who are assigned to DAEP to be separated from students who are not assigned to the program. Students attend DAEP on a temporary basis and will not intermingle with the general student population during the school day, similar to how ISS currently operates.

Students who are in DAEP will not share cafeteria or recess times with home campus students and current campus operations. The district will partner with the Child Nutrition team on alternate procedures for breakfast and lunch. 

DAEP programs relocated to an existing campus will operate independently from the campus’s current operations. Students in a relocated DAEP program will remain separate from the campus’s existing student body, maintaining dedicated spaces and operations. LISD’s facility and construction teams will provide support to ensure proper physical separation between programs.

Yes. Each program will have dedicated staff oversight to ensure that current campus administrators can remain focused on supporting their existing campus operations.

Dedicated DAEP staff will be responsible for the delivery of instruction and oversight of the DAEP programs.

Yes, LISD’s general transfer window is open now through Feb. 13. Historically, LISD adjusts windows and/or creates new priority windows for families when changes are made to campuses. Additionally, we are adding a later transfer window May 1-31 in order to try to accommodate families seeking changes.

The HVES facility will be utilized for the Special Education TEAMS program and the district is looking to expand capacity for TEAMS type programming. There are growing numbers of students who would benefit from the TEAMS instructional model that focuses on behavior management for students who have become persistently disruptive to the educational process in less restrictive settings.  

The Mill Street ES facility will be utilized as an early childhood facility serving PreK students who are zoned for Central ES, Rockbrook ES, Vickery ES, and Valley Ridge ES. The Lillie Jackson ES facility will serve PreK students who are zoned for Lewisville ES, Lakeland ES, Parkway ES, and Southridge ES.

As the needs of our early childhood population of students have increased over the last several years in our Lewisville feeder pattern, the district has also been considering how to better meet the needs of our earliest learners in our PreK programs that are embedded in our Lewisville feeder elementary schools. Currently the Lewisville feeder is only served by one early childhood center, Lillie J. Jackson. The opportunity to reimagine Mill Street will allow for re-locating PreK students who are not served at Lillie Jackson and provide the Lewisville feeder with two early childhood facilities to standardize the PreK program within this feeder. The Mill Street facility geographically is located within the Lewisville feeder zone, and the Highland Village facility is not.

Additionally, the district is looking at ways to expand our TEAMS offerings and will need the space available at the Highland Village location.

Initially there will be some costs incurred as we make some facility adjustments made for the program relocations. The funds for any needed adjustments will not impact the daily operations funding (M&O budget) for the school district and will come from land and/or facility sales in this case.

Many of our campuses outside of our Lewisville feeder pattern do not have many families eligible to receive free PreK within their zone. More tuition-based PreK programs across the district is not a long-term solution at this time due to new changes in Texas law that limit how public schools districts can operate tuition-based early childhood programs. The district is still waiting on further details and guidance from the state regarding new legislation to understand what the future of tuition-based PreK programs may look like in LISD.