Education
BY ADAM DOE
Durham Intermediate will close ahead of 2027-28 school year
Carroll ISD trustees voted to close Durham Inter- mediate School ahead of the 2027-28 school year, following a 655-student enrollment drop, resulting in a $7 million state funding loss since 2019. By the numbers For the 2025-26 school year, 664 fifth- and sixth- grade students attend Durham, which has capacity for 849 students. A fall demographer’s report shows that Durham is projected to lose roughly 160 students by the 2030-31 school year. Durham also requires about $8 million in repairs, more than any other campus, CISD Executive Communi- cations Director Jeff Brady said. Board President Cameron Bryan said the district will try to sell the Durham property. Deputy Super- intendent of Finance and Operations Chase Park expects the sale to net CISD between $20 million and $25 million. Budget projections show that closing Durham will save the district about $2.55 million each year
CISD enrollment projections The district is projected to lose roughly 800 more students by the 2030-31 school year. The enrollment drop has caused the district to lose about $7 million in state funding.
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students, Park said. Looking ahead
from administrative staff cuts and interest. “The millions and millions of dollars that we will receive as a result of that sale will go into a high-yield account and earn interest,” Bryan said. “We’re not just going to spend that tens of millions of dollars.” The district will earn about $1.25 million in interest and save roughly $1.3 million in staff cuts. Teachers will move to the new campuses with the
Durham is one of two schools in the district that serve fifth- and sixth-grade students. After the school closure, all fifth-grade students would move into existing elementary schools and the district will expand two middle school campuses to serve sixth-grade students, Brady said.
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