McKinney - January 2026

District rezones schools for fall ahead of campus closures From the cover

The specifics

2026-27 elementary school attendance boundaries In addition to the redistribution of students attending Eddins, McNeil and Wolford elementary schools, students in other parts of the district might attend a new school as campus enrollment was rebalanced through attendance boundaries changes.

When district ocials began a strategic planning process in 2023, the district faced a $23 million budget decit, Superintendent Shawn Pratt said. Cost saving measures including budget decreases, master scheduling and select stang reductions were implemented throughout the district, said Dennis Womack, assistant superintendent of business operations. MISD also introduced new revenue sources, including the open enrollment Choose McKinney program and child care programs, but ultimately the district still needed to reduce costs through facility eciencies, Womack said. The district’s elementary enrollment has also seen a slight decline in the southwestern sector and is expected to continue declining in coming years, according to district documents. The $3 million in cost savings expected from the campus repurposing plan accounts solely for labor costs. Womack said across the three campuses, there are about 130 sta members, of which about 75 are expected to follow their campuses’ current students to their new schools. The remaining sta members will be able to ll positions that are created through attrition at campuses across the district, Womack said, noting that the district sees 15% to 17% attrition annually, which creates about 300 open positions. “Where the savings comes is, we’re not going to create a new position. We will actually remove that position that’s open … and put one of these people into that,” he said. District ocials also announced in November that sta displaced by the campus closures will be guaranteed a role within the district for the next school year. Transition planning and communication is underway by the district for aected students and teachers. Eddins Elementary PTA President Liz Hurst said she is glad to see most of Eddins Elementary moving to another campus together, but the school is farther than the in-neighborhood Eddins campus. “Some of the Eddins culture will move with us to the new building, which is great,” she said. “My sadness around it is the loss of independence my kiddo is going to have.” Hurst, along with other community members, expressed concern for the process and timeline used for the Educational Facilities Alignment Committee, or EFAC. The 39-person committee of MISD parents met four times from Sept. 30 through Nov. 4 to decide which campuses to recommend for closure, and four more times from Nov. 11 through Dec. 9 to determine their recommendation for new attendance boundaries.

FRAZIER

PRESS

MCCLURE

WILMETH

VEGA

WEBB

17 16

380

SLAUGHTER

BURKS

MINSHEW

380

VALLEY CREEK

GLEN OAKS

BENNETT

FINCH

JOHNSON

MCGOWEN

MALVERN

WALKER

SRT TOLL

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Campuses

Open

Closing

1 Bennett Elementary 2 Burks Elementary 3 Finch Elementary 4 Frazier Elementary 5 Glen Oaks Elementary 6 Johnson Elementary 7 Malvern Elementary

8 McClure Elementary 9 McGowen Elementary 10 Press Elementary 11 Slaughter Elementary 12 Valley Creek Elementary 13 Vega Elementary 14 Walker Elementary

15 Webb Elementary 16 Wilmeth Elementary Closing/being repurposed 17 Eddins Elementary 18 McNeil Elementary 19 Wolford Elementary

Elementary enrollment trends in southwest McKinney At 13 McKinney ISD elementary schools in the district’s southwest sector, enrollment was expected to slowly decline prior to campus closures and attendance zone realignment.

-6.56%

8K 6K 4K 2K 0

2022-23 2024-25 2026-27 2028-29 2030-31 2032-33 2034-35

SOURCE: MCKINNEY ISDCOMMUNITY IMPACT

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