A proposal for the district
One platform the district owns, instead of nine it rents
9,482 students, 17 campuses, 91 buses and one question a parent asks every single morning. This is what that looks like when the website, the board record and the bus map are the same system — built in both languages, and built to be read by anybody.
See where the buses are right now What a parent sees
- 11 buses on the road at this moment
- Every board vote, by name, in both languages
- A website nobody has to audit later — WCAG 2.2 AA checked on every page, every build
Where's my bus
The question the district gets more than any other, and the one its current systems cannot answer. A parent should not have to telephone a campus office to find out whether to keep a five-year-old standing at a stop.
- The live map — every bus, right now
A real map of Starr County with every bus on it, its next stop, its arrival and how many students are aboard.
18 buses on this view
- What a parent sees on their phone
One child, one bus, one number: the minutes until it reaches your stop.
In English and Spanish
- How the board voted on it
The August meeting, published as text: every motion, the recusal, and how each trustee voted by name.
Agenda and minutes
The schools
17 campuses from pre-kindergarten to early college, across Starr County from Rio Grande City to La Grulla.
- Rio Grande City High School
The district's largest campus, and the one that sets the bell schedule every bus route in the north of the district has to meet.
1,842 students
- Grulla High School
La Grulla is twenty-two miles east of the central office, and its buses run the longest routes in the district.
486 students
- Preparatory for Early College High School
Students leave with college hours already earned.
402 students
Why this is one system and not nine
The website is rented from one company, the bus routing from another, the board packet from a third, the notification texts from a fourth. None of them share a record, so the district pays four times to store the same child's name four times — and still cannot tell a parent where the bus is.