Education
BY HANNAH JOHNSON
With 5,000 vacant lots expected for new single and multifamily units within McKinney ISD by the summer, district officials are working toward planning to accommodate for growth. There are currently 2,500 vacant lots and over 3,000 lots undergoing work in the district, said Rocky Gardner of Zonda Education, the district’s demography consultant, during a Dec. 18 board meeting. Based on the data received from the district’s demographer, MISD Assistant Superintendent Dennis Womack said the district will work to place students wherever it has space. “We’ll need to look at different strategies on how to best redistribute some of our [zones] and which school [students] attend,” Womack said. District officials expect growth, assess zoning
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Enrollment in McKinney ISD is forecast to reach almost 26,000 students in the next 10 years, according to Zonda’s data. Growth within MISD is following the trend of suburb growth in Dallas-Fort Worth. In the third quarter of 2023, there were 1,704 homes purchased within MISD. The district has 34 subdivisions being actively built while there are 27 future subdivisions within the district, according to the presentation. Nearly 3,300 multifamily units and about 1,000 single family rental units are under construction across the district. There are also about 3,500 future multifamily units in the planning stages, according to the presentation. “Growth is pushing to the suburbs every- where,” Gardner said. “It’s a product of both where there’s available land and affordability.”
Projected high enrollment elementary schools Three schools are expected to exceed capacity in the next 10 years due to growth.
Frazier Elementary School Press Elementary School Webb Elementary School
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district, Womack said. The district will take into consideration the programmatic use of classrooms in the district to determine how many students a campus can handle, he said. “We [will] have a plan to take care of every kid and make sure every kid has a seat,” Womack said.
With existing zoning boundaries, Frazier Elementary School could reach over 2,000 students by 2033—about 1,200 students over its functional capacity— based on projections. The elementary zone has over 700 vacant developed lots and space for 4,700 future lots. In the next few months, district officials will work to plan for growth based on where the growth is occurring in the
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