‘Inevitable’ closures From the cover
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On Dec. 10, the Grapevine-Colleyville ISD board of trustees voted to close Dove and Bransford elementary schools ahead of the 2026-27 school year, following a six-year enrollment decline. The decision follows a recommendation by the Education Master Planning Committee to close the schools. GCISD formed a committee of district sta and community members to address the district’s nances in January 2025, and it began considering campus closures last May, said Nicole Lyons, executive director of communications. District documents show enrollment in GCISD has dropped by about 1,500 students since 2019, from 13,294 to 11,818 in 2025. The state provides funding based on average daily attendance, and the enrollment drop has caused the district to lose about $10.5 million in state funding over that same period, district Chief Operations O cer Paula Barbaroux said at a Dec. 2 board meeting. “At a period of time when the district was growing, it appeared that the district believed it needed to have 11 [elementary] campuses and basically a capacity of about 7,100 students in those 11 schools,” Barbaroux said. “Today, what we see is just over 1,900 open seats.” Dove students will relocate to Cannon and Silver Lake elementary schools, and Bransford students will be reassigned to O.C. Taylor and Colleyville elementary schools for the 2026-27 school year. About 120 O.C. Taylor students will also relocate to Heritage Elementary School. The committee developed a rubric that evaluated each campus on several factors, including future repair costs and number of students enrolled. Dove scored the lowest on the rubric with a 12.4, while Bransford was ranked seventh out of 11 campuses with a 19.4.
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Open 1 Bear Creek 2 Glenhope 3 Grapevine 4 Timberline
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Projected enrollment at campuses affected by consolidation
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