Texas Education Code Title 2, Chapter 25 - Admission, Transfer, And Attendance

SUBCHAPTER A ADMISSION AND ENROLLMENT

• Texas Section 25.001 - Admission
  (a) A person who, on the first day of September of any school year, is at least five years of age and under 21 years...
• Texas Section 25.0011 - Certain Incarcerated Children
  (a) For purposes of Section 25.001, a person is not considered to reside in a school district if: (1) the person is incarcerated in a...
• Texas Section 25.002 - Requirements For Enrollment
  (a) If a parent or other person with legal control of a child under a court order enrolls the child in a public school, the...
• Texas Section 25.0021 - Use Of Legal Surname
  In each public school a student must be identified by the student's legal surname as that name appears: (1) on the student's birth certificate or...
• Texas Section 25.0022 - Food Allergy Information Requested Upon Enrollment
  (a) In this section, "severe food allergy" means a dangerous or life-threatening reaction of the human body to a food-borne allergen introduced by inhalation, ingestion,...
• Texas Section 25.003 - Tuition For Certain Children From Other States
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, a school district shall charge tuition for a child who resides at a residential facility and whose...
• Texas Section 25.0031 - Tuition For Students Holding Certain Student Visas
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, if a student is required, as a condition of obtaining or holding the appropriate United States student...
• Texas Section 25.004 - Tuition For Certain Military Dependents Prohibited
  A school district may not charge tuition for the attendance of a student who is domiciled in another state and resides in military housing that...
• Texas Section 25.005 - Reciprocity Agreements Regarding Military Personnel And Dependents
  (a) To facilitate the transfer of military personnel and their dependents to and from the public schools of this state, the agency shall pursue reciprocity...
• Texas Section 25.006 - Transition Assistance For Military Dependents
  (a) The legislature finds that: (1) school-age dependents of military personnel are faced with numerous transitions during their formative years; and (2) military dependents who...
• Texas Section 25.007 - Transition Assistance For Students Who Are Homeless Or In Substitute Care
  (a) The legislature finds that: (1) students who are homeless or in substitute care are faced with numerous transitions during their formative years; and (2)...

SUBCHAPTER B ASSIGNMENTS AND TRANSFERS

• Texas Section 25.008 - Enrollment In Summer School Course By Person Not Enrolled In District
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a school district shall permit a person who is eligible under Section 25.001 to attend school in the...
• Texas Section 25.031 - Assignments And Transfers In Discretion Of Governing Board
  In conformity with this subchapter, the board of trustees of a school district or the board of county school trustees or a school employee designated...
• Texas Section 25.032 - Basis For Assignment Or Transfer
  The board of trustees of a school district, the board of county school trustees, or the person acting for the board must make the decision...
• Texas Section 25.033 - Assignment Or Transfer On Petition Of Parent
  The parent or person standing in parental relation to any student may by petition in writing either: (1) request the assignment or transfer of the...
• Texas Section 25.034 - Hearing; Action On Petition; Appeal
  (a) On receiving a petition under Section 25.033, the board of trustees of the school district or the board of county school trustees shall: (1)...
• Texas Section 25.0341 - Transfer Of Students Involved In Sexual Assault
  (a) This section applies only to: (1) a student: (A) who has been convicted of continuous sexual abuse of young child or children under Section...
• Texas Section 25.0342 - Transfer Of Students Who Are Victims Of Or Have Engaged In Bullying
  (a) In this section, "bullying" has the meaning assigned by Section 37.0832. (b) On the request of a parent or other person with authority to...
• Texas Section 25.0343 - Transfer Of Students Residing In Household Of Student Receiving Special Education Services
  (a) If, for the purpose of receiving special education services under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, a school district assigns a student to a district campus...
• Texas Section 25.035 - Transfers Between Districts Or Counties
  The boards of trustees of two or more adjoining school districts or the boards of county school trustees of two or more adjoining counties may,...
• Texas Section 25.036 - Transfer Of Student
  (a) Any child, other than a high school graduate, who is younger than 21 years of age and eligible for enrollment on September 1 of...
• Texas Section 25.037 - Transfer Of State Funds
  On the timely filing with the agency of notice of a child's transfer and certification by the agency of the transfer, the state available school...
• Texas Section 25.038 - Tuition Fee For Transfer Students
  The receiving school district may charge a tuition fee to the extent that the district's actual expenditure per student in average daily attendance, as determined...
• Texas Section 25.039 - Contracts And Tuition For Education Outside District
  (a) A school district that does not offer each grade level from kindergarten through grade 12 may provide by contract for students residing in the...
• Texas Section 25.040 - Transfer To District Of Bordering State
  Any child entitled to attend the public school of any school district situated on the border of Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, or New Mexico who finds...
• Texas Section 25.041 - Transfer Of Children Or Wards Of Employees Of State Schools
  A school-age child or ward of an employee of a state school for the mentally retarded constituted as a school district who resides in the...
• Texas Section 25.042 - Transfer Of Children Of Employees Of Texas Juvenile Justice Department Facilities
  A school-age child of an employee of a facility of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department is entitled to attend school in a school district adjacent...

SUBCHAPTER C OPERATION OF SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL ATTENDANCE

• Texas Section 25.043 - Classroom Placement Of Multiple Birth Siblings
  (a) In this section: (1) "Multiple birth sibling" means a twin, triplet, quadruplet, or other sibling resulting from a multiple birth. (2) "Parent" includes a...
• Texas Section 25.081 - Operation Of Schools
  (a) Except as authorized under Subsection (b) of this section, Section 25.084, or Section 29.0821, for each school year each school district must operate so...
• Texas Section 25.0811 - First Day Of Instruction
  (a) Except as provided by this section, a school district may not begin instruction for students for a school year before the fourth Monday in...
• Texas Section 25.0812 - Last Day Of School
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a school district may not schedule the last day of school for students for a school year before...
• Texas Section 25.082 - School Day; Pledges Of Allegiance; Minute Of Silence
  (a) A school day shall be at least seven hours each day, including intermissions and recesses. (b) The board of trustees of each school district...
• Texas Section 25.0821 - Minute Of Silence To Commemorate September 11, 2001
  (a) To commemorate the events of September 11, 2001, in each year that date falls on a regular school day, each public elementary or secondary...
• Texas Section 25.083 - School Day Interruptions
  (a) The board of trustees of each school district shall adopt and strictly enforce a policy limiting interruptions of classes during the school day for...
• Texas Section 25.084 - Year-round System
  (a) A school district may operate its schools year-round on either a single-track or a multitrack calendar. If a school district adopts a year-round system,...
• Texas Section 25.085 - Compulsory School Attendance
  (a) A child who is required to attend school under this section shall attend school each school day for the entire period the program of...
• Texas Section 25.086 - Exemptions
  Sec. 25.086. EXEMPTIONS. (a) A child is exempt from the requirements of compulsory school attendance if the child: (1) attends a private or parochial school...
• Texas Section 25.087 - Excused Absences
  (a) A person required to attend school, including a person required to attend school under Section 25.085(e), may be excused for temporary absence resulting from...
• Texas Section 25.088 - School Attendance Officer
  The school attendance officer may be selected by: (1) the county school trustees of any county; (2) the board of trustees of any school district...
• Texas Section 25.089 - Compensation Of Attendance Officer; Dual Service
  (a) An attendance officer may be compensated from the funds of the county, independent school district, or open-enrollment charter school, as applicable. (b) An attendance...
• Texas Section 25.090 - Attendance Officer Not Selected
  (a) In those counties and independent school districts where an attendance officer has not been selected, the duties of attendance officer shall be performed by...
• Texas Section 25.091 - Powers And Duties Of Peace Officers And Other Attendance Officers
  (a) A peace officer serving as an attendance officer has the following powers and duties concerning enforcement of compulsory school attendance requirements: (1) to investigate...
• Texas Section 25.0915 - Truancy Prevention Measures
  (a) A school district shall adopt truancy prevention measures designed to: (1) address student conduct related to truancy in the school setting before the student...
• Texas Section 25.0916 - Uniform Truancy Policies In Certain Counties
  Sec. 25.0916. UNIFORM TRUANCY POLICIES IN CERTAIN COUNTIES. (a) This section applies only to a county with two or more courts hearing truancy cases and...
• Texas Section 25.092 - Minimum Attendance For Class Credit Or Final Grade
  (a) Except as provided by this section, a student in any grade level from kindergarten through grade 12 may not be given credit or a...
• Texas Section 25.093 - Parent Contributing To Nonattendance
  (a) If a warning is issued as required by Section 25.095(a), the parent with criminal negligence fails to require the child to attend school as...
• Texas Section 25.095 - Warning Notices
  (a) A school district or open-enrollment charter school shall notify a student's parent in writing at the beginning of the school year that if the...
• Texas Section 25.0951 - School District Complaint Or Referral For Failure To Attend School
  (a) If a student fails to attend school without excuse on 10 or more days or parts of days within a six-month period in the...

SUBCHAPTER D STUDENT/TEACHER RATIOS; CLASS SIZE

• Texas Section 25.0952 - Procedures Applicable To Parent Contributing To Nonattendance Offense
  In a proceeding based on a complaint under Section 25.093, the court shall, except as otherwise provided by this chapter, use the procedures and exercise...
• Texas Section 25.111 - Student/teacher Ratios
  Except as provided by Section 25.112, each school district must employ a sufficient number of teachers certified under Subchapter B, Chapter 21, to maintain an...
• Texas Section 25.112 - Class Size
  (a) Except as otherwise authorized by this section, a school district may not enroll more than 22 students in a kindergarten, first, second, third, or...
• Texas Section 25.113 - Notice Of Class Size
  (a) A campus or district that is granted an exception under Section 25.112(d) from class size limits shall provide written notice of the exception to...
• Texas Section 25.114 - Student/teacher Ratios In Physical Education Classes; Class Size
  (a) In implementing the curriculum for physical education under Section 28.002(a)(2)(C), each school district shall establish specific objectives and goals the district intends to accomplish...
• Texas Section 25.151 - Student Expression
  A school district shall treat a student's voluntary expression of a religious viewpoint, if any, on an otherwise permissible subject in the same manner the...
• Texas Section 25.152 - Limited Public Forum; School District Policy
  (a) To ensure that the school district does not discriminate against a student's publicly stated voluntary expression of a religious viewpoint, if any, and to...
• Texas Section 25.153 - Religious Expression In Class Assignments
  Students may express their beliefs about religion in homework, artwork, and other written and oral assignments free from discrimination based on the religious content of...
• Texas Section 25.154 - Freedom To Organize Religious Groups And Activities
  Students may organize prayer groups, religious clubs, "see you at the pole" gatherings, or other religious gatherings before, during, and after school to the same...
• Texas Section 25.155 - Adoption Of Policy
  A school district shall adopt and implement a local policy regarding a limited public forum and voluntary student expression of religious viewpoints. If a school...

SUBCHAPTER Z MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO STUDENTS

• Texas Section 25.156 - Model Policy Governing Voluntary Religious Expression In Public Schools
  In this section, "model policy" means a local policy adopted by the school district that is substantially identical to the following: ARTICLE I STUDENT EXPRESSION...
• Texas Section 25.901 - Exercise Of Constitutional Right To Pray
  A public school student has an absolute right to individually, voluntarily, and silently pray or meditate in school in a manner that does not disrupt...

Last modified: September 28, 2016