Richards ISD tax rate (2025): 0.801% of assessed value
Richards ISD adopted 0.801% for tax year 2025 — the lowest school district rate in Montgomery County, Texas. At a $300,000 assessed value, that levy alone is $2,405 a year before exemptions.
- Adopted total
- 0.801% of assessed value
- Operations (M&O)
- 0.674%
- Debt service (I&S)
- 0.127% — 15.9% of the total
- County rank
- 1st of ten, lowest first
- At $300,000
- $2,405 a year, district levy only
- With county-wide levies
- 1.332% — $3,995 a year, before any city or special district
Reading the Richards numbers
Richards ISD's 0.801% is the floor of the county's school-district table for 2025, and the shape of the rate explains why: its debt-service half is 0.127%, far below any other district's, so almost everything it collects funds current operations rather than bond repayment. The nearest district above it, Conroe ISD, still costs $444 more each year on the same $300,000 assessed value. Against New Caney ISD at the top of the table, the spread reaches $1,361 a year — $13,611 across a ten-year hold with rate and value held flat.
Every other school district in the county charges more than Richards ISD for 2025. The furthest, New Caney ISD at 1.255%, costs $1,361 more a year at $300,000 assessed.
Richards ISD against the other nine
Sorted by how close each district's adopted total sits to Richards's — nearest first, because the nearest rows are the alternatives a buyer is actually choosing between:
| District | Gap at $300,000 | Total | M&O | I&S |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conroe ISD | $444 more a year | 0.950% | 0.670% | 0.280% |
| Magnolia ISD | $470 more a year | 0.958% | 0.666% | 0.293% |
| Cleveland ISD | $668 more a year | 1.024% | 0.667% | 0.357% |
| Willis ISD | $700 more a year | 1.035% | 0.667% | 0.368% |
| Tomball ISD | $784 more a year | 1.063% | 0.667% | 0.396% |
| Montgomery ISD | $869 more a year | 1.091% | 0.717% | 0.374% |
| Humble ISD | $911 more a year | 1.105% | 0.755% | 0.350% |
| Splendora ISD | $1,360 more a year | 1.255% | 0.755% | 0.500% |
| New Caney ISD | $1,361 more a year | 1.255% | 0.755% | 0.500% |
Adopted 2025 rates as a percentage of assessed value; the gap column prices the difference on a $300,000 assessed value, exemptions excluded.
No city named Richards appears in Montgomery County's 2025 city-rate table. Whether a parcel zoned to Richards ISD pays any city rate turns on the parcel's own incorporation, not on the school district.
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Sources
- Texas Comptroller Property Tax Assistance Division — Property Tax Rates and Levies — retrieved 2026-08-04. Adopted rates for tax year 2025. Rates for the following year are adopted between August 15 and September 30 and are not published by PTAD until the following January.
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