Two new trustees, including one incumbent, were elected to the Round Rock School Board

One incumbent and two new administrators secured seats on the seven-person Round Rock school board Tuesday evening, according to complete but unofficial results.

Incumbent Estevan (Chuy) Zárate secured the Place 1 seat with 55.3%, or 42,717 of the 77,246 votes cast, against challenger Joshua Escalante.

Former Round Rock art teacher Melissa Ross won second place against April Guerra, the mother of a dyslexic student who works in the financial industry.

Ross received 62.1%, 46,833 of the 75,464 votes.

In the 7th Place race, Mingyuan “Michael” Wei, a father and a toxicologist for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, won 59.3%, or 45,779 of 77,173 votes, defeating longtime Williamson County resident Jim Steele who is father and grandfather.

Ross and Wei will replace outgoing trustees Mary Bone and Danielle Weston, respectively, who each served on the school board since 2020.

During their time on the board, Bone and Weston have often had contentious relationships with the other members over issues such as mask mandates and the hiring of Superintendent Hafedh Azaiez in June 2021.

In April 2022, a judge in Williamson County dismissed a lawsuit Bone and Weston filed against the other board members over proposed censure resolutions for disrupting a meeting. A second censure resolution failed in August 2022. The motion was proposed after both trustees exceeded quorum during a June 16, 2022 meeting on the budget.