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The Lake Travis School District is one of the best school districts in Central Texas. All schools are rated very highly by the state of Texas. Lake Travis teachers, as well as the administration and staff, at the elementary schools are fantastic. I have had kids in Lake Travis schools since 1993 and we have had great experiences in every grade. In December of 2005, Expansion Management Magazine designated the Lake Travis ISD as a Gold Medal district. This places the Lake Travis ISD in the top 17% of all school districts in the country. Expansion Management studies more than 2800 school districts around the country each year. What they are doing is determining how well districts prepare students to enter the work force. They award an Education Quotient (EQ) score to each district using a scale from 1-99, with 99 being the best. Expansion Management gave the Lake Travis ISD an EQ of 93. Read the Expansion Management EQ Report. As far as programs that help the kids prepare for college, there are a number of them. One is the Institutes of Study, which you can read about HERE. Another is DECA, which stands for Distributive Education Club of America. DECA is a national association of marketing students that attracts individuals to productive careers in marketing, management, business and merchandising. DECA started at LTHS a few years ago with a handful of students and has around 65 members in the 2007/2008 school year. Texas Monthly put 4 of the Lake Travis schools in there list of top public schools in Texas in 2007. Of the around 8,000 public schools in Texas, only 859 made the list. Click HERE to see the schools on the list. The Children at Risk 2010 Texas Public School Rankings places Lake Travis High School and Hudson Bend Middle School as two of the best schools in the greater Austin area. This area includes Travis and six other neighboring counties. Prior to getting into real estate, I was a substitute teacher in all of the Lake Travis schools (I still sub on occasion). I can say first hand that the faculty and staff in all Lake Travis schools are great. Also, programs in the middle and high schools are excellent. Music, theater, athletics, FFA and clubs of all kinds provide students with wonderful in-school and after school activities. In the middle schools and at the high school, students are encouraged to volunteer in the community. They get service hours for this. At the high school, students who accumulate 25 or more hours per school year graduate with the prestigious Cavs In Service award. This looks great on a college application and on a resume. I work with the Lake Travis High School Interact Club as an advisor. It is amazing to see the kinds of projects that the Interact Club members are involved in. Most recently, the Interact Club donated 6 water buffalo to a village in India through Heifer International. The biggest project is The American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Lake Travis, which Interact has sponsored each year. This is the fifth year for Relay For Life in this area and each year Interact members have been on the planning committee for the event. So whether you have kids or are concerned about resale value of a home in the Lake Travis ISD, the schools have a very positive impact on the value of homes in the area. Read more about Lake Travis schools below.
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