The Woodlands | January 2023

2023 ANNUAL COMMUNITY GUIDE

Meetings are planned into the spring in preparation for an August deadline to call for a November bond. Timeline for action

on the Nov. 7 ballot. CISD is aiming for a bond committee of 150-200 community members. The committee is tentatively scheduled to meet 11 times before the Aug. 21 deadline for the board of trustees to call a bond. “Our intention would be to work with the committee, starting in the spring,” Null said. “If we could have it wrapped up by May, that would give us some time in May and June to go out and have some town halls with the community and share the committee’s thoughts with the community and get feedback.” Following those town halls, the committee will meet once more in July to nalize its recommendation before sending it to the board for a decision at an August board meeting. The board will have the option to take the recommendation as is or amend it as it sees necessary. The rst committee meeting is scheduled for Feb. 2.

district recording over 120% capacity, according to the study. Null said when buildings reach 90% capacity, they can seem crowded to students, parents and teachers. Buildings that are over capacity use portable classrooms. The building capacities for each school refer to the main building and do not include overow in the portables. “Currently, there are around 200 portables in use throughout the district,” Null said. At the board meeting, Null said the district could see at least 2,600 more students in the 2023-24 school year but will only be adding space for 1,600 new students. “We’re going to go 1,000 in the hole next year. The following year, we’re going to add 1,000 seats but add 3,000 [students], so we’re going to go another 2,000 in,” he said. “We know we’re going to continue with the decit piece. We just have to work with it.” Forming a committee To address the projected growth, the district is forming a bond committee that will begin meeting in February in anticipation of a bond being placed

MEETING DATES 2023

Feb. 2-July 17 : Board meets 11 times during this time period

May-June : Public town halls to take place

Aug. 21 : Deadline to call bond for November election

Nov. 7 : Election Day

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schools, one junior high and one ninth-grade campus in the southern Montgomery County area. “There are many, many, many other factors that go into the decision and reality of building this many schools,” Tapera said. “We are just here to give you one bit, one piece of the puzzle.” Current needs As of the 2022-23 school year, the district is already at 102% capacity overall, according to the district.

The last of the four elementary schools from the 2019 bond, Bartlett Elementary—located in the Conroe/ Caney Creek feeder zone—will open in August 2024, and one junior high school in the Caney Creek feeder is set to open in August 2023. Despite those additions, as of November, three high schools, four junior high schools, ve intermediate schools and 20 elementary schools are at capacity or overcapacity with eight schools throughout the

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