Education
BY VALERIA ESCOBAR
Over half of LCISD to be overcapacity in 10 years
Lamar Consolidated ISD’s “hypergrowth” trend is expected to result in over half of district campuses being overcapacity in the next 10 years, demographers said. At the Jan. 23 LCISD board of trustees meeting, demographic firm Zonda provided a report from the third quarter of 2024 outlining housing and student enrollment trends. Since last March, LCISD has been coined a “hypergrowth” district, meaning it has an elementary school zone that has between 150 to 300 new home starts annually, Community Impact previously reported. Zooming in Zonda has projected the dis- trict’s enrollment to reach nearly 57,600 students by 2029-30 and approximately 67,400 students by 2034-35, said Jonathan Maxwell, executive director of student programs at the district. Right now, six elementary schools and two middle or junior
high schools are overcrowded. By the 2034-35 school year, over half of all campuses will be overcapacity, according to the board presentation. The cause Unemployment rates in the LCISD area are around 4.1%- 4.5%, which is lower than the 7% unemployment rate at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and comparable to state and national levels, Maxwell said. “The reason the demographer looks at this information is truly to see, OK, what is the health of the economy? How many people are looking at moving in who have jobs? … It gives them an insight of the purchasing of new homes, especially in our area,” Maxwell said. Next steps There has been no update on the plans to create a Hypergrowth Oversight Committee, Chief Communications Officer Sonya Cole-Hamilton said.
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Campuses projected to surpass capacity
Demographers said the district will have to build schools to accommodate for 20 years of hypergrowth.
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*CAPACITY IS AFFECTED BY DECREASING ENROLLMENT DUE TO AGING POPULATION AND OTHER SCHOOLS OPENING IN THE AREA. NOTE: THERE ARE 30 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, 14 MIDDLE AND JUNIOR HIGHS, AND SEVEN HIGH SCHOOLS IN LCISD. SOURCE: LAMAR CISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT
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