Over the past several years, students who are not well-served by Eanes ISD have left the district for private school.  Eanes ISD is not up for the challenge of meeting the needs of a diverse population of students.  Further, as district enrollment decreases, the Eanes ISD administration have packed classrooms to overflow with hundreds and hundreds of transfer students from surrounding districts.  These transfer students are carefully screened in an intentional effort to make the district's easy demographics even easier.  When these students, often educated elsewhere in earlier grades, do well (as expected) the Eanes ISD leaderships takes full credit. 

Apparently, there's a new group of district students who are thinking about leaving Eanes ISD.  These district families are now considering a move out of Eanes ISD in hopes that their student can make top ten percent, a status that will allow automatic entry into The University of Texas at Austin and other state universities. 

Instead of transferring out of Eanes ISD, perhaps these families need to look a little closer to home to discover the solution - and the problem as well: 

Think about it.  Why hasn't the district answered this important question?  The district has certainly studied the "impact of transfer students" on our district.  Did the district consider this issue?  Does the district have the stats?  If so, why hasn't this information been shared with the Eanes ISD taxpayers?

Surely, if the transfer students are specifically screened for their stellar grades and achievement, many will compete for those coveted top ten percent spots as seniors.   We won't know unless the district tells us.  So as the Eanes ISD leadership continues to wave goodbye to a diverse population of district students, and recruit "cream of the crop" out-of-district students to transfer into Westlake High from surrounding districts, here's the question: