Education
BY HALEY VELASCO
Clear Creek ISD expands limited open enrollment program
The impact
Superintendent Karen Engle said the expanded policy will help the district with its enrollment, which has declined in recent years. As part of this, more students are graduating high school than are entering kindergarten. “[This] proposal ... would enable us to increase enrollment and maximize revenue,” Engle said at the Feb. 24 meeting.
and discipline record, officials said. If that criteria was met, a student’s parent or guardian also needed to meet one of the following requirements: • Be a nonresident peace officer who lives within 10 miles of the district • Be a nonresident military service member who live within 10 miles of the district • Be a nonresident federal employee who lives within 10 miles of the district • Be a grandparent who lives within CCISD and has a grandchild who lives outside CCISD • Be a nonresident CCISD employee The change will now only require potential students to meet the first set of criteria. However, officials said they will give preference to those who meet the other criteria too.
More families could qualify to attend Clear Creek ISD after the board of trustees approved expanding the district’s limited open enrollment program at its Feb. 24 meeting. The expanded policy will give the superintendent authority to accept or reject out-of-district transfer requests, subject to policy and administrative regulations, according to district agenda documents. Prior to the approval on Feb. 24, the district’s limited open enrollment program allowed students who reside outside of the district’s attendance boundaries to attend CCISD schools if they met certain criteria, according to district documents. Students needed to meet two sets of criteria, documents show. The first was based on a student’s previous academic history, attendance
Clear Creek ISD's 10-year enrollment forecast
Enrollment
Projected
40K 50K 30K 20K 10K 0
40,737
35,830
SOURCE: ZONDA EDUCATION/COMMUNITY IMPACT
Percentage of students who are transfers Compared to surrounding school districts, CCISD has a lower percentage of its overall enrollment come from students who transfer into the district.
Clear Creek ISD
Dickinson ISD
Friendswood ISD
Pasadena ISD
Pearland ISD
Looking ahead
0% 1% 2% 3% 4% 5%
4.1%
Officials said March 12 they are working on the policy’s regulations and will provide the public with updates at a later time. More information is available on the district’s website. In the meantime, officials said they could eventually launch an online dashboard that tracks current available openings at each campus.
2.3% 2.48% 2.48% 2.82% 1.09%
2.71% 1.85% 1.58% 0.77%
2019-20
2020-21
2021-22
2022-23
2023-24
SOURCE: TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY/COMMUNITY IMPACT
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