District News

Calling all Southside Seniors. Applications are now Open! Click here for the online application. 

Matthey Middle School lead math teacher Mr. Israel Del Valle has been named the 2021 Southside Independent School District Teacher of the Year. Earlier this year, Mr. Del Valle had been named Matthey Middle School Teacher of the Year. For his outstanding accomplishments, Del Valle received a $3000 award and a trophy. He’s known as […]

Southside ISD will continue with masks, social distancing, and all of the safety protocols that we have in place. Nothing has changed for our school district.  On March 2, Gov. Greb Abbott announced lifting the mask mandate in Texas in an Executive Order A-34 which addresses the statewide wearing of face coverings (i.e., masks) and takes […]

Losoya Middle School head custodian Amalia Gonzalez didn’t hesitate to open the Losoya Middle School gym to help families keep warm during the Big Freeze of ’21. From Feb. 14th through Feb. 19th, thousands of families in the Southside ISD went without electricity and water while temperatures remained below freezing. A fast decision by Superintendent […]

What is TELPAS? The Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System (TELPAS) fulfills federal requirements for assessing the English language proficiency of ELLs in kindergarten through grade 12 in four language domains: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. TELPAS reports student performance in terms of four English language proficiency levels: beginning, intermediate, advanced, and advanced high. TELPAS […]

(San Antonio, TX) – School, both in-person and online will resume tomorrow, Monday, February 22, 2021.  All SISD facilities and offices will also be up and running as usual. Thank you to all of our staff and families who looked out for each other during the winter storm. Now let’s get back to school and […]

The Board of Managers meeting scheduled for Thursday, February 18, 2021, has been postponed. The meeting is rescheduled for Thursday, March 4 at 6:00 pm and will be held virtually.

We are thrilled to announce that our new partnership with Community Labs will help us get back to school classrooms, in-school buildings safely. Community Labs is changing how traditional covid-19 testing is currently conducted with a 24-hour turnaround, 95% accuracy, and less invasive. Community Labs will begin offering weekly COVID-19 screening for all in-person student […]

Alamo Colleges District-Palo Alto College has made it official. It has officially begun construction on the $23 million Southside Education & Training Center. The SETC, as it is called, will become a pipeline so students can earn their degrees in allied health and nursing, said Palo Alto College President Dr. Robert Garza. “We are thankful […]

Beginning in February 2021, southside ISD campuses introduced a new monthly newsletter, Campus Chronicles. The monthly campus newsletters are an excellent source of information – be sure to watch your email inbox, add us as a contact, and check your spam to receive the latest news. Campus Chronicles is a monthly newsletter delivered by the […]