A REZONING RIDDLE
The TISDDistrict Zone Committeemet inOctober to propose newelementary and junior high school boundaries with the goal of populating new schools and relieving overcrowding in southern TISD.
EDUCATION
Tomball ISD elementary, junior high zone changes to go before board in December
Tomball High School, your high school is still going to be Tomball High School,” Gutierrez said during the Oct. meeting. “This will really be one of the rst times where we have a campus where we have students that are Cougars and Wildcats. I think that’s also a unique opportunity for that kind of culture building and understanding, ‘Hey, we still are one Tomball.’” New elementary boundaries would take e ect for the - school year, as the new elementary school is slated to open in August , Gutierrez said. Junior high boundaries would be realigned for the - school year ahead of the junior high opening in August . “I understand in the end it won’t make everybody happy,” Superin- tendent Martha Salazar-Zamora said Oct. . “People are usually OK with it until it a ects their family. It has to a ect someone’s family or else this is all for nothing.” REDUCINGOVERCROWDING To populate the new schools and accommodate anticipated enrollment over the next decade, the district will pull students from overcrowded cam- puses, Gutierrez said. Gutierrez said targeted opening enrollment for the new elementary school is - students, which would be about % of the building’s capacity of about students. “If we do this [realignment] correctly, there really is capacity [in elemen- tary schools] with what we have and the one coming on next year for the next years,” Gutierrez said Oct. ,
BY ANNA LOTZ
Changes to Tomball ISD attendance boundaries will come before the board of trustees in December for approval aer the public has an opportunity to view new proposed rezoning maps Nov. , Chief Operating Ocer Steven Gutierrez said. The district is in the pro- cess of realigning attendance bound- aries for elementary and junior high campuses to populate two new schools in the works and relieve overcrowding in southern TISD. The unnamed elementary and junior high campuses will be part of a TISD complex at Cypress Rosehill Road and the Grand Parkway, funded by a million bond referendum approved by voters in November . Land clear- ing is underway, as Community Impact Newspaper previously reported. Led by Gutierrez, the committee of about parents and a few TISD sta had three meetings in October to dis- cuss proposed boundary changes. As the committee was tasked only with realigning elementary and junior high boundaries, high school and intermediate zones will not be altered, Gutierrez said, which means for the rst time some elementary and junior high schools will include students SCHOOL, YOUR HIGH SCHOOL IS STILL GOING TO BE TOMBALL HIGH SCHOOL.” — STEVEN GUTIERREZ, TOMBALL ISD CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER "IF YOU ARE CURRENTLY ZONED TO TOMBALL HIGH
The targeted building capacities for Wildwood and Lakewood elementary schools are 80%-85% . The targeted building capacity for WillowWood Junior High is 70%-80% .
. The district committeewas taskedwith populating the newelementary school with 552-644 STUDENTS
and the new junior high school with
486-613 STUDENTS .
SOURCE:TOMBALL ISD/COMMUNITY IMPACTNEWSPAPER
A public forum will be held at : p.m. Nov. at the Sta Devel- opment Center at Keefer Road, Tomball, where residents can suggest minor changes to the proposed rezon- ing maps, which the board of trustees will consider Dec. , Gutierrez said.
referring to projections from Templeton Demographics. “We are going to gradu- ally ll that [new] school.” The targeted initial enrollment for the new junior high school—slated to hold , students—is between - students, Gutierrez said.
bound for both high schools. “If you are currently zoned to
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