Application Process:

• Candidate filing period to file application for place on the ballot is: Wednesday, January 14, 2026 to Friday, February 13, 2026 – Monday through Thursday, 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. or Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. 
• All applications filed are public records and open to inspection upon request.

• Candidates may pick up an election packet at the Birdville ISD Administration Office from 8:00 to 4:00 p.m., Monday-Friday or make a request to have the packet sent via mail, email or fax beginning January 8, 2026.

• Applications may be submitted in person, by mail, email, or fax beginning January 14, 2026.

Form, Content, and Procedure: 

An application for a place on the ballot must be in writing; signed, sworn to by the candidate before a person authorized to administer an oath, and dated; timely filed with the district's filing authority; and contain specified information about the candidate:

• the candidate's name, date of birth, and occupation;
• the candidate's residence address or the address at which the candidate receives mail with a description of the location of the candidate's residence;
• the candidate's length of continuous residence in Texas and in the district as of the date the candidate swears to the application;
• if available, a public mailing address and email address at which the candidate receives correspondence relating to the candidate's campaign;
• the office sought, including any place or other distinguishing number and an indication of whether the office sought is for a full or unexpired term;
• statements that the candidate is a U.S. citizen; has not been determined by a court to be mentally incapacitated; has not been convicted of a felony; is aware of the nepotism law; and swears an oath to support and defend the U.S. and Texas Constitutions and laws.

Eligibility: 

An individual is eligible to be a candidate for, or elected or appointed to, a Texas school board if the individual:

• is a United Sates Citizen
• is 18 years of age or older on the first day of the term to be filled at the election or on the date of appointment, as applicable;
• has not been determined by a final judgment of a court exercising probate jurisdiction to be totally mentally incapacitated or partially mentally incapacitated without the right to vote;
• has not been fully convicted of a felony;
• has resided continuously in the state for 12 months and in the territory from which the office is elected for six months immediately preceding the following date:
  • for an independent candidate, the date of the regular filing deadline for a candidate's application for a place on the ballot;
  • for a write-in candidate, the date of the election at which the candidate's name is written in; or
  • for an appointee to an office, the date the appointment was made;
• is registered to vote in the territory from which the office is elected on the date described above; and
• satisfies any other eligibility requirements prescribed by law for the office.

       Tex. Educ. Code § 141.001; Tex. Educ. Code § 11.066.