Education
BY SARAH BRAGER & COLE GEE
Tomball ISD approves 2027-28 academic calendar
LSCS celebrates record-breaking spring enrollment Lone Star College System kicked off 2026 with the highest spring enrollment in the institution’s history, officials said Feb. 4. Two-minute impact LSCS saw a 6.4% increase in enrollment compared to spring 2025, with 97,221 students enrolled for the spring 2026 semester, per a news release. Officials also reported a fall-to-spring retention rate of almost 80% for the spring semester, which began Jan. 20. The milestone builds off record-breaking numbers for fall enrollment in 2025, with 97,294 students taking classes last semester, Community Impact previously reported. Founded in 1972, LSCS has several cam- puses across the Greater Houston area.
At its Feb. 10 meeting, Tomball ISD trustees officially approved the calendar for the upcoming 2027-28 school year. The gist Due to families’ requests to plan for summer vacation and spring break earlier in the year, the TISD board began to approve the academic cal- endar two years in advance, board Vice President John E. McStravick said. The instructional calendar was presented at the Feb. 9 meeting by Director of Administrative Services Karen Graves. For the 2027-28 school calendar, Graves said the committee highlighted two measures: • Students will begin no earlier than the second Monday of August. • Teachers will begin no earlier than the first Monday of August. Items worth mentioning Trustees also heard a presentation about the
According to the approved 2027-28 calendar, the instructional period will run from Aug. 17, 2027, to May 25, 2028. Instructional dates include:
First day of school: Aug. 17, 2027 Thanksgiving break: Nov. 22-26, 2027 Winter break: Dec. 20-31, 2027 Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Jan. 17, 2028
Spring break: March 13-17, 2028 Last day of school: May 25, 2028
SOURCE: TOMBALL ISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT
new Tomball Intermediate School building. Caitlin Munch, a project architect at Huckabee Architects said that the new building will have a “sleek and open light design,” and multiple vantage points for teachers and student resource officers to watch students.
Applications opening in spring for LSC’s new degree
Lone Star College’s bachelor’s degrees The new bachelor’s degree in Applied Science in Early Childhood Education and Teaching will be the fifth LSCS offers. The college also offers degrees in:
Lone Star College System will be opening applications later this spring for a new bachelor’s degree in education, according to a Feb. 12 news release from the college system. The big picture The Bachelor of Applied Science in Early Child- hood Education and Teaching will be available
this fall at the LSC-Atascocita Center in north- east Houston and the LSC-Creekside Center in Tomball, according to the release. Students can graduate from the two-year program as teachers certified in early childhood education-third grade or early childhood education-sixth grade. Up to 50 students can enroll in the program at each center this fall.
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