EDUCATION
OVERCROWDING SOLUTIONS Tomball ISD is considering two plans for rezoning elementary schools serving the Village of Creekside Park. Plan A would result in some students in Creekside Park crossing the northern portion of Kuykendahl Road to get to Timber Creek Elementary School. KEY Timber Creek zone Creekview zone Elementary school
Tomball ISD considering boundary changes near TheWoodlands
PLAN A PROPOSAL
BY KAYLI THOMPSON
Creek because of increasing growth in the district, which is projected to enroll 24,000 students in 2026-27 and 26,000 by 2031-32. Timber Creek is at 82% capacity, according to TISD. Superintendent Martha Salazar- Zamora said at the March 7 meeting the district is out of room at Creekview Elementary, which is at 115% capacity. Overall, the school district had 1,585 new students for the 2021-22 school year and is predicting 865 new students for 2022-23, said Rocky Gardiner, Zonda director and school district consultant, at the March 7 meeting. “With the growth in the district and within the Creekside area, a neighborhood will inevitably have to cross Kuykendahl,” Gutierrez said. Parents and The Woodlands officials have suggested alternatives, such as building a pedestrian bridge across Kuykendahl or hiring crossing guards. Gutierrez said TISD does not employ crossing guards, but the district is willing to bus students. TISD parent Angela Clegg, who lives in the Timarron community, said in an interview the area is walkable, and the school district has continuously encouraged the parents not to use the buses, especially with the bus driver shortage. She said parents received an email about the proposed boundary changes in early March from TISD, and it caught many parents off guard. “This is my first time being frus- trated with the district; I’ve been very happy,” Clegg said. Vanessa Holt contributed to this report.
KUYKENDAHL RD.
Tomball ISD is considering boundary changes affecting Creekview, Creekside Forest and Timber Creek elementary schools. TISD will not make a decision until the district can form a committee to review growth and school capacity, according to an April 8 message sent to the families in the three affected stakeholders and be formed during the end of April or beginning of May so the committee can present a final recom- mendation to the TISD board of trustees in May. Trustees will next meet May 10. TISD presented a boundary draw- ing, Plan A, at the March 7 meeting that would add 100 students each to Creekside Forest and Timber Creek, reducing Creekview by 200 students. After pushback from parents in elementary school boundaries. The committee will comprise Tomball and The Woodlands as well as The Woodlands Township board of directors concerning the safety of children, TISD officials drew up a second plan to consider. Plan A would send some students in Creekview Elementary to Timber Creek Elementary on the opposite side of Kuykendahl Road from their homes, Community Impact News- paper previously reported. Plan B would not send students from those sections of Creekview. However, TISD Chief Operating Officer Steven Gutierrez said at a March 24 Woodlands Township board meeting that even if Plan B is adopted, some students will even- tually need to be zoned to Timber
VILLAGE OF CREEKSIDE PARK BORDER
CREEKSIDE FOREST DR.
CREEKVIEW
2978
CREEKSIDE GREEN DR.
TIMBER CREEK
N
Creekview
Timber Creek
Capacity 2021-22 enrollment Projected 2022-23 enrollment School zone
920 1,057 922
920 755 884
115% 100%
82% 96%
PLAN B PROPOSAL
KUYKENDAHL RD.
VILLAGE OF CREEKSIDE PARK BORDER
CREEKSIDE FOREST DR.
2978
CREEKVIEW
CREEKSIDE GREEN DR.
TIMBER CREEK
HUFSMITH KUYKENDAHL RD.
N
Creekview
Timber Creek
Capacity 2021-22 enrollment Projected 2022-23 enrollment School zone
920 1,057 952
920 755 854
115% 103%
82% 93%
SOURCE: TOMBALL ISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
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