Birdville ISD’s award-winning Finance Department is dedicated to excellence in financial stewardship and transparency. Recognized for its innovative practices and commitment to fiscal responsibility, the department ensures that every dollar is maximized to support student success. With a proven track record of earning prestigious state and national accolades, Birdville ISD’s Finance Department operates with the highest standards of accountability, providing the community with clear and accurate financial reporting. Trust in a team that not only balances the books but also champions the future of education in Birdville ISD.
The purpose of our efficiency audit was to assess the District’s fiscal management, efficiency and utilization of resources, and whether the District has implemented best practices utilized by Texas school districts before an election to adopt a Maintenance and Operations (M&O) property tax rate.
Each year school districts must have their annual financial and compliance report audited by an independent auditor. The resulting annual financial and compliance report must then be submitted to TEA for review.
Financial Audit Reports
Each year school districts must have their annual financial and compliance report audited by an independent auditor. The resulting annual financial and compliance report must then be submitted to TEA for review.
To access the annual audit reports, click on the links below:
The District operates on a fiscal year beginning July 1 and ending June 30. Budget planning is an integral part of overall program planning. The budget reflects the District’s programs and activities and provides the resources to implement them. In the budget planning process, general educational goals, specific program goals, and alternatives for achieving program goals are considered, as well as input from the District and campus-level planning and decision-making committees.
The adopted budget provides the authority to expend funds for the purposes indicated and in accordance with state law, Board policy and the District’s purchasing procedures. The expenditure of funds must be in accordance with the adopted budget.
Click on the Adopted Budget Reports link to the left to access annual budget reports.
To access annual adopted budget reports click the links below:
The purpose of our efficiency audit was to assess the District’s fiscal management, efficiency and utilization of resources, and whether the District has implemented best practices utilized by Texas school districts before an election to adopt a Maintenance and Operations (M&O) property tax rate.
The Texas Administrative Code (TAC), Title 19, § 109.1001, states that the purpose of the financial accountability rating system is to ensure that school districts will be held accountable for the quality of their financial management practices and achieve improved performance in the management of their financial resources. The system is designed to encourage Texas public schools to manage their financial resources better in order to provide the maximum allocation possible for direct instructional purposes. The system will also disclose the quality of local management and decision-making processes that impact the allocation of financial resources in Texas public schools. An evaluation of the long-term effectiveness of the system should disclose a measurable improvement in the quality of Texas public schools' financial decision-making processes.
For 21 straight years, Birdville ISD received a rating of “Superior Achievement” under Texas’ Schools FIRST financial rating system. #ThisismyBirdvilleIS
Birdville ISD is proud to have held the top rating since the inception of FIRST twenty years ago.
The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts is proud to announce the Transparency Stars program, recognizing local governments for going above and beyond in their transparency efforts. The program recognizes government entities that accomplish the following:
provide clear and meaningful financial information not only by posting financial documents, but also through summaries, visualizations, downloadable data and other relevant information.
Each year school districts must have their annual financial and compliance report audited by an independent auditor. The resulting annual financial and compliance report must then be submitted to TEA for review.
To access the annual audit reports, click on the links below:
Visit Texas.gov/Property Taxes to find a link to your local property tax database on which you can easily access information regarding your property taxes, including information regarding the amount of taxes that each entity that taxes your property will impose if the entity adopts its proposed tax rate. Your local property tax database will be updated regularly during August and September as local elected officials proposed and adopt the property tax rates that will determine how much you pay in property taxes.
A property owner may request from the county assessor-collector or the person who assesses taxes for the county, contact information for the assessor for each taxing unit in which the property is located, who must provide the information described to the owner on request.
Wendy Burgess, Tax Assessor-Collector, Tarrant County
100 E. Weatherford Street
Fort Worth, TX 76196
817-884-1100
Instructions for subscribing for TNT updates as taxing units update information:
Click “Subscribe to Notifications” button located in the top right hand corner or the page. Enter your information, agree to receive email notifications, click confirm
The Texas Public Information Act gives the public the right to request access to government information.
Making a Request
The Act is triggered when a person submits a written request to a governmental body. The request must ask for records or information already in existence. The Act does not require a governmental body to create new information, do legal or other research, answer questions, or explain district decisions.
Charges to the Requestor
A person may ask to view the information, obtain copies of the information, or both. If a request is for copies of information, the governmental body may charge for the copies. If a request is only for an opportunity to inspect information, then usually the governmental body may not impose a charge on the requestor. However, under certain limited circumstances a governmental body may impose a charge for access to information. All charges imposed by a governmental body for copies or for access to information must comply with attorney general rules, unless another statute authorizes an agency to set its own charges.
The requestor may complete the District's Public Records Request form most applicable to their request (click one of the links below), or submit any other written documentation that provides the requestor’s name, address, email address, telephone number and a clear description of the documents requested.
All Public Information Requests for school district records must be filed with the Communications Department.
A request may be submitted in writing in one of four ways:
Personally deliver written requests to the District's Administration Building. The request will then be delivered to the Communications Department.
Birdville ISD Communications Dept.
Administration Building
8555 Airport Freeway
N. Richland Hills, TX 76180
Mail requests to:
Public Information Request (Attn: Communications)
Birdville ISD
8555 Airport Freeway
N. Richland Hills, TX 76180
For the 2026 tax year, Birdville ISD’s Board of Trustees adopted a Maintenance & Operations tax rate of $0.7869 and a Debt Service tax rate of $0.39964, which is a total tax rate of $1.18654. ($.01176 less than the tax rate for 2025)
Due to lower interest rates, increases in valuation and prudent financial decisions by the District, the debt service tax rate is over 1.35 cents less than what was told to voters in 2014. In addition, since 2014, the Board has approved prepayment of more than $18.465 million of bond principal saving taxpayers more than $11.8 million in interest payments.
Tax Rate History
(Image description above: Stacked bar chart titled "Birdville ISD Tax Rate History" showing the Maintenance & Operations (M&O) and Interest & Sinking (I&S) tax rates from 2017–2026. The I&S tax rate remains mostly steady at $0.4139 from 2017–2024, decreases slightly to $0.4114 in 2025, and to $0.3998 in 2026. The M&O tax rate decreases over time from $1.0400 (2017–2019) to $0.9700 (2020), $0.9664 (2021), $0.9241 (2022), $0.8659 (2023), $0.7892 (2024), and $0.7868 (2025–2026), illustrating an overall decline in the district's total tax rate over the 10-year period.)
