More Than $2 Billion in School Bonds on Tuesday's Ballot: The Bexar-Area Voter's Guide to the Comal, Northside and SAISD Packages

Voters in three San Antonio-area school districts will weigh a combined $2 billion-plus in bond proposals on the November 3 ballot, according to Focus on San Antonio's election preview, read in full this cycle. The bond questions are borrowing for buildings, buses and technology, and they sit alongside — and separate from — the voter-approval tax-rate elections the same districts are running, which this station detailed in its earlier tax-rate guide.

Northside ISD's $886 million package is the largest. Proposition B would direct $764.7 million to facility projects districtwide, including a $125 million replacement of the Taft High School fine arts building, $45 million each to replace cafeteria, gymnasium and kitchen space at Oak Hills and Scobee elementary schools, and $43.7 million for 230 new school buses; Proposition C would put $56 million into classroom technology devices, and Proposition D $65.5 million into replacing the George Block Aquatics Center. District officials said any of the bond proposals passing would not raise district property taxes, because the debt-service portion of the tax rate has capacity to support them. San Antonio ISD's $600 million package puts $492 million in Proposition B for modernizing campuses and replacing roofs, chillers, boilers and windows, plus a new bus fleet with three-point seatbelts and safety upgrades; $102 million in Proposition C for network infrastructure and teaching devices; and $6 million in Proposition D for Alamo Stadium and the Alamo Convocation Center. If all SAISD propositions pass, the district estimates the average homeowner pays $1.99 more per month in the 2026-27 school year, rising in later years.

Comal ISD's two-proposition, $567 million package is the growth play: Proposition A would direct $539 million to classroom capacity, including two new elementary schools along Interstate 35 near New Braunfels, converting administrative space at Canyon High School into classrooms, land for future schools, security and infrastructure upgrades and replacement buses with seatbelts, while Proposition B puts $27 million into classroom technology. Officials said the district's debt-service capacity means an approved package would not affect its current tax rate, which they described as a 30-year low, with enrollment expected to exceed 40,000 by 2035. In every district, the preview notes, disabled taxpayers and those 65 and older will not have their taxes increased even if their district's bond passes.