Administrative Team

Preparatory Academy Administration 

Principal: Marco Zamora
Assistant Principal: Roberta Davila
Assistant Principal: Victoria Marin
Assistant Principal: Kristina Venecia


District Administration 

Superintendent: Marco Antonio Lara, Jr., Ed.D.
Deputy Superintendent: Efrain Garza
Assistant Superintendent for Finance & Operations: Marla R. Knaub
Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources: Lissa Frausto, MBA, SPHR
Executive Director for Student Support: Marcos L. Flores, M.Ed.
Executive Director for Special Programs: Brenda De La Garza, Ed.D.
Chief Academic Officer: Nereyda Treviño, Ed.D.
Chief of Security Operations: Steven Cortez
Administrator for Public Relations & Marketing: Amanda Odom

Now Open: High School Selection and In-District Transfers for 2025-26

The STISD High School Selection process for current STISD 8th-graders and In-District Transfer process for current STISD 6th-,7th- and 9th-graders wanting to transfer to another campus within STISD for the 2025-2026 school year are now open via Skyward. The deadline to complete these processes is 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 22.

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Parent Invitation: Session 1 of Emergent Bilingual Parent Institute Series is on Thursday, Oct. 31

STISD will host the first session of its Emergent Bilingual Parent Institute Series on Thursday, Oct. 31, at 9 am at STISD Preparatory Academy in Edinburg.

This is a great opportunity for parents of language learners to come learn how to support their children's linguistic, cognitive and social emotional development at home.

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