County, excepting the territory within the Florence, Granger, Hutto, Lexington, Taylor, and Thrall independent school districts; Bastrop County, excepting the territory within the Lexington Independent School District; the part of the San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District located in Guadalupe County; the part of the Elgin Independent School District located in Lee County; and the part of the Smithville Independent School District located in Fayette County. Campuses In the fall of 1973, the college held its first classes in the former Anderson High School building in east Austin, which ACC named its Ridgeview Campus. Evening classes were also held at several Austin public high schools. The Rio Grande Campus, the system's second, was opened downtown in 1975 in the building recently vacated by Austin High School. Over succeeding decades the college added the Riverside Campus in the East Riverside neighborhood of southeast Austin, on the former site of the Austin Country Club (1984); the Northridge Campus on the northern edge of Travis County (1989); the Pinnacle Campus in Oak Hill in southwest Austin (1990); the Cypress Creek Campus in Cedar Park (1991); the Eastview Campus in east Austin (1999); the South Austin Campus (2006); the Round Rock Campus (2010); the Elgin Campus (2013); the Highland Campus, on the site of the closing Highland Mall in north Austin (2013); the Hays Campus in Kyle (2014); and the San Gabriel Campus in Leander (2018). The Ridgeview Campus closed in 1989, and Pinnacle closed in 2019. ACC's administrative offices are located in north-central Austin. Administration ACC has a nine-member Board of Trustees whose members are elected by residents of the taxation district. Each member is elected at large (by the entire district) and sits for a six-year term. In addition to developing policies for the organization as a whole, the Board is responsible for appointing the College President, who then selects the rest of ACC's administrative staff and directs the day-to-day operation of the college as its chief executive officer. Academics ACC offers associate degrees and certificates in more than 100 fields, as well as offering career and technical training programs, adult education/GED programs, and continuing education programs. The school also facilitates transfer of core curriculum credits to bachelor's degree programs at four-year institutions; tuition costs for two years of study at ACC are significantly lower than those at major Texas public universities, leading many students complete basic course work at ACC before