The Texas Education Agency (TEA) has released correspondence detailing the final maximum compressed tax rates (MCR) for school districts’ maintenance and operations (M&O) tax rates for tax year (TY) 2026 and school year (SY) 2026-2027. To calculate the maximum compressed tax rates, the TEA conducted the Local Property Value Survey (LPVS), which opened on July 18, 2026, and closed on August 1, 2026.
Once a district’s LPVS status is “approved”, districts can adopt their TY 2026 tax rates. Districts that did not submit their LPVS will receive the lesser of the state maximum compression rate of $0.6254 or their prior-year MCR for their MCR.
The final SY 2026-2027 (TY 2026) MCR values for each district are available on the State Funding webpage under the District & Charter Planning Tools subheading. The final MCR list includes the results of any appeals and supersedes the previous list of preliminary MCRs posted on August 5, 2026.
The SY 2026-2027 Summary of Finances (SOF) reports will be updated to incorporate final TY 2026 MCRs before the first FSP payments in September 2026. Total M&O tax rates will be updated by February 2027 when the TEA receives preliminary state-certified property values and self-reported tax rates from the Comptroller’s Property Tax Assistance Division.
The full correspondence can be found from the TEA can be found here.
