Education
BY CASSANDRA JENKINS
Conroe ISD moving forward with elementary rezoning efforts
The impact
The bottom line
According to the Jan. 16 presentation by McCord, 1,823 students will be moving across 14 elementary campuses in the 2024-25 school year with 44% of the students impacted by rezoning moving to Bartlett.
CISD began the process of examining atten- dance zones for Bartlett in 2023 in anticipation of the school opening this August. Located at 11255 Cielo Drive, Conroe, the campus will serve pre-K-fourth grade with a total capacity of 950 students.
Corridors that will be affected the most include those in the northern section of the Caney Creek feeder zone and portions of the Conroe feeder. Students moving between campuses include: • 799 students moving to Bartlett Elementary with the majority coming from northeast of the Conroe Airport near Pine Acre Trails, Cielo and Sweetwater Ridge subdivisions • 255 students living north of FM 2090 moving from Creighton Elementary to Austin or Milam elementary schools • 449 students transferring out of Patterson Elementary School “This is a medium-term solution,” McCord said. “This is not a long-term solution. There is just masses of people that are coming that want to be a part of what we have.”
The Conroe ISD board of trustees approved new 2024-25 attendance zones for Bartlett Elementary School and other elementary campuses in the Caney Creek and Conroe high schools’ feeder zones at a meeting Jan. 16. Opening in August, Bartlett will help bring six overcapacity campuses to under capacity, Assistant Superintendent of Operations Chris McCord said. According to prior reporting, the campus is the last school to open as part of the $653.7 million bond approved in November 2019 and the last elementary school in the northern Caney Creek and Conroe feeder zones to be constructed in the near future. The approved boundaries were selected out of 27 potential options. “In the 131-year history of our district, this is one of the most challenging scenarios and endeavors that we’ve undertook, but we feel good about it,” McCord said.
1. Anderson 2. Armstrong
4. Bartlett 5. Creighton
7. Houston
10. Reaves
13. San Jacinto 14. Wilkinson
8. Milam
11. Rice
3. Austin
6. Hope
9. Patterson
12. Runyan
2023-24 Conroe ISD elementary zones
2024-25 zones with Bartlett Elementary
3
4
3
1
1
Elementary rezoning impact
Total capacity
Current enrollment
Future enrollment
9
10
7
7
336
336
10
Six CISD schools will see enrollment fall below their capacities after Bartlett Elementary opens in August.
105
105
2
2
9
12
12
5
5
1,000 1,200
11
11
3083
3083
45
45
925
900
14
8
14
8
875
6
6
0 200 400 600 800
700
675
650
575
13
13
N
N
Anderson Austin Patterson Reaves
Runyan Wilkinson
Creighton
SOURCE: CONROE ISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT
SOURCE: CONROE ISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT
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