Irving ISD Puts $952M Bond With 12.5-Cent Impact on Nov. 3

IRVING — Irving ISD voters will decide a nearly $952 million bond package on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, with four separately voted propositions and a projected tax-rate impact of 12.5 cents if all pass, or about $20.83 a month on a $340,000 home with the standard homestead exemption, according to the district’s official Bond 2026 site.

The bond continues a facilities planning process that began before Irving’s 2023 bond program. A Facilities Planning Committee of community members reviewed assessments and recommended projects to trustees. The live ballot math, campus list, and tax example are published on IrvingISDBond.com, which is the primary record for this draft.

The four propositions and their price tags

Proposition A is listed at about $552.2 million for campus replacements and district-wide improvements, with an estimated $0.072 tax-rate impact. It covers replacement campuses at Lively Elementary, T. Haley Elementary, Davis Elementary, and Travis Middle School, plus safety and security, CTE, fine arts, and campus renovations.

Proposition B is listed at $300 million to replace Irving High School, with an estimated $0.039 impact. Proposition C is $40 million for district-wide technology updates and cybersecurity, about $0.005. Proposition D is about $60.2 million for three high school indoor multi-purpose facilities at Irving, MacArthur, and Nimitz high schools, about $0.008.

Those four buckets add to roughly $952.3 million. Each proposition is voted separately, so the final tax impact depends on which pieces pass.

Tax impact language the district is using

If voters approve all four propositions, the official site projects a $0.1250 (12.50 cent) tax-rate impact. For a $340,000 home with a $140,000 homestead exemption, that is $20.83 per month. Under Texas law, school taxes on a residence homestead for a person 65 or older or disabled generally cannot rise above the ceiling amount from the first qualifying year if the homeowner applies and remains eligible.

Early voting runs Monday, Oct. 19, through Friday, Oct. 30. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3. The last day to register for that election is Monday, Oct. 5, per the bond site’s voting information.

Related Never Late News coverage includes the Dallas ISD Bond 2026 charrette, Keller ISD’s $828 million HVAC bond package, and the EMS ISD Nov. 3 VATRE.

Why Irving's package sits in the North Texas bond wave

November ballots across DFW are thick with school money questions, from VATRE rate elections to multi-proposition bonds. Irving’s package is a facilities and technology ask with a clear published monthly example on a mid-value home. Parents who sat through 2023 bond progress updates now get a second, larger replacement-campus decision while 2023 projects continue.

The district is also hosting community presentations in October at Crockett Middle School, Barton Elementary, and Farine Elementary. Those meetings are listed on the bond homepage for residents who want project detail beyond the proposition totals.

Aging campuses and what replacement money buys

The bond site stresses that Irving facilities have served students for decades and that the Facilities Planning Committee reviewed building-condition assessments before recommending replacements. Proposition A’s elementary and middle school replacements sit beside district-wide safety, CTE, and fine arts work. Proposition B concentrates a full high school replacement at Irving High School. That split lets voters support neighborhood campus rebuilds without automatically approving the high school line, or the reverse.

Technology and student-program facilities are intentionally separate propositions. A household that wants cybersecurity and device refreshes can vote yes on Proposition C while deciding independently on indoor multi-purpose facilities in Proposition D. That structure is why the district publishes per-proposition tax-impact estimates instead of a single take-it-or-leave-it total.

Irving also reminds voters that its total tax rate fell from $1.35 in 2015 to $1.0159 in 2025, a reduction of more than 24% over a decade, and that the rate held at $1.0159 for 2024 and 2025 while 2023 bond projects continued. The Nov. 3 package would raise the debt-service side if approved; it does not rewrite that historical compression story on its own.

How Never Late News reported this

Never Late News based this report on Irving ISD’s official Bond 2026 website and Bond Scope page, which list the Nov. 3, 2026 election, early voting window, four propositions with dollar amounts and estimated tax-rate impacts (A about $552.2M / $0.072, B $300M / $0.039, C $40M / $0.005, D about $60.2M / $0.008), the projected $0.1250 total impact if all pass, the $20.83 monthly example on a $340,000 home with homestead exemption, named replacement campuses, and Facilities Planning Committee context. Primary source: Irving ISD Bond Scope. We did not invent interviews or independently model debt service beyond the district’s published figures.

Corrections and reader feedback

If you spot an error in proposition amounts, tax-impact examples, campus names, or election dates, email editor@neverlatenews.com with the correction and a source link. Never Late News corrects factual mistakes promptly and notes substantive updates when Irving ISD revises bond materials.

About Never Late News: Never Late News is a US local and civic news site covering budgets, taxes, schools, housing, and public services with people-first reporting. This article carries the byline Ron M. Holiday.