Tomball - Magnolia Edition | February 2024

Education

BY EMILY LINCKE

Tomball ISD to overhaul attendance boundaries over next 3 years About 1,823 Tomball ISD elementary students will be attending dierent schools in August due to attendance boundary changes approved by the district’s board of trustees Jan. 9. While new elementary boundaries will be student population growth and three new schools opening at the district’s Juergen Road complex— funded by TISD’s $494.46 million 2021 bond—in upcoming school years, as previously reported by Community Impact .

2026-27 school year. Boundary changes will be implemented in three phases, which also include grade congurations before the 2026-27 school year for elementary, intermediate and junior high levels as well as for ninth and 10th graders, TISD ocials said. Grade congurations will align grade levels at TISD’s various schools. The boundary redesign process accounted for

The approved maps incorporate community feed- back and are a revised version of maps previously presented to the TISD community in November, district leaders said.

implemented before the 2024-25 school year, altered intermediate and junior high boundaries will take eect for the 2025-26 school year, according to TISD. High school boundaries will change ahead of the

Elementary campus boundaries, 2024-25

Elementary schools New elementary zones add West Elementary , opening in August. Changes from 2023-24 include: • The southern portion of Grand Oaks Elementary ’s zone is transferred to West , including the West Hollow Square and Cypress Hill neighborhoods. • Grand Oaks will absorb the southeastern portion of Rosehill Elementary boundaries and the southern portion of Tomball Elementary .

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Canyon Pointe Creekside Forest Creekview Decker Prairie Grand Oaks Lakewood

Rosehill Timber Creek Tomball Elementary West Elementary Wildwood Willow Creek

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The primary map changes compared to the 2023-24 boundaries include: • Students in some neighborhoods generally west of Hwy. 249 and south of Decker Prairie-Rosehill Road— such as Lakes at Cypress Hill and Oaks of Rosehill, currently zoned to Tomball High School —will attend West High School . • Currently zoned to Tomball Memorial High School , neighborhoods including Wildwood at Oakcrest and Hayden Lakes—located south of the Grand Parkway and west of Hwy. 249—will be zoned to West High . Major divergences from the 2023-24 boundaries include: • Tomball Junior High will be ceding a large portion of its southwestern territory, sending students in neighborhoods such as Holly Creek and Rosehurst to Grand Lakes Junior High . • Students currently attending Grand Lakes Junior High in parts of the Villages of Northpointe and Canyon Gate at Northpointe neighborhoods will be zoned to Willow Wood Junior High . Creekside area—which will open in the fall of 2026. The addition will be accompanied by grade recongurations. Major changes from the current boundaries include: • A large portion of Tomball Intermediate’s central territory will be zoned to West Intermediate , including the Barrister Creek and Pine Country of Tomball neighborhoods. • Southwestern neighborhoods zoned to Tomball Intermediate —including La Paloma and Highmeadow Farms—will also attend West Intermediate .

Tomball Intermediate

Intermediate schools

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Innovations

Junior high schools No new junior high schools are planned to open in TISD in the coming years; however, the current junior high boundaries were still modied during the district’s boundary reset. These boundaries will be implemented before the 2025-26 school year and are subject to potential changes before they are implemented. TISD’s new intermediate school zones—to be implemented for 2025-26—account for the addition of West Intermediate , opening in fall 2025. The boundaries are subject to potential changes. A fth-grade addition to Creekside Park Junior High—located in the Innovations zone—was also approved in mid-December—in place of a proposed intermediate school planned for growth in the

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Oakcrest

Tomball Jr. High

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Creekside Park

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High schools

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Tomball High

TISD’s high school boundaries will account for the addition of a third high school, Tomball West High School , which is slated to open in the 2026-27 school year. The new Tomball West High school will open with ninth and 10th graders only, TISD leaders said. These boundaries are subject to potential changes before they are implemented.

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