Original Research by School Decision on Floresville Alternative Education Center
The Floresville Alternative Education Center has closed. This was an alternative school serving middle grades within La Vernia ISD, a district that covers the Floresville area in Wilson County.
The school no longer operates, so it is not available as an option for families. The data provided reflects its final year of operation. State assessment results from that period show proficiency metrics that are suppressed, a data-handling practice used when tested enrollment is very small, which was the case here. Enrollment, demographics, and other operational details were not available in the records.
La Vernia ISD, the district to which this school belonged, implemented a four-day school week (Monday through Thursday) beginning in the fall of multiple years ago as a three-year pilot, a structural change that affects all families in the district. The school year starts earlier and days run longer to satisfy state instructional-minute requirements. The district coordinated with local daycares and the YMCA to provide Friday childcare for families who needed it, recognizing that the schedule shift created needs outside school walls.
In May of a recent year, district voters approved two bond measures funding classroom additions for enrollment growth, campus renovations, safety and security upgrades, technology infrastructure, new buses, and athletic field replacement. The district stated it would hold the tax rate steady. Those projects included a groundbreaking in late fall of that year.
More recently, in November of last year, La Vernia voters rejected a tax rate election that would have raised the maintenance and operations rate to generate revenue primarily for staff salaries to align with neighboring districts. Trustees had lowered the interest and sinking fund rate to offset the proposed increase, resulting in a combined rate that would have been lower than the prior year, but the measure still failed.
The closure of this alternative school means families in the district now have other options within La Vernia ISD if they seek a different educational pathway, but this particular program is not among them.
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