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Current enrollment projections predict three schools will surpass enrollment capacity by the 2024-25 school year and ve more schools will exceed capacity within ve years, according to TISD’s boundary reset website. With the addition of four new schools to TISD, district leaders anticipate campuses will avoid surpassing enrollment capacity until at least the 2030-31 school year, according to a presentation at the Oct. 10 trustee meeting.
Salazar-Zamora said during the district’s rst listening tour Nov. 8. “With that, … individuals will have to go to new schools.” Within seven school years, eight TISD schools are expected to exceed capacity if no boundary changes are made or new schools are added, according to enrollment projections posted on TISD’s boundary reset website. “Tomball ISD is a fast-growth school district. … Our student enrollment is exceeding building capacity in many areas of the district,” TISD o cials said in an email. Three map drafts each for elementary, intermediate, junior high and high school boundaries were published on TISD’s website in early November. A fourth plan, incorporating parent comments made during two listening tours, was posted in mid-November.
Tomball ISD administrators are evaluating attendance boundaries for all campuses—which trustees are slated to consider Jan. 9—for the 2024-25 school year. On Oct. 10, TISD leaders announced the campus boundary reset process, with the new zoning set to take e ect in August when West Elementary School opens. The need for a boundary redesign comes from student population growth and new schools that will be opening, TISD administrators said in a Nov. 9 email. Four schools—funded by TISD’s $494.46 million 2021 bond—will open from August 2024 to August 2026. “We’re thankful to the voters that have allowed us the opportunity to build new schools, so we don’t continue to have overcrowding,” TISD Superintendent Martha
The new schools include: West Elementary School • Opening: 2024-25 school year • Bond funds allocated: $32.55 million West Intermediate School • Opening: 2025-26 school year • Bond funds allocated: $39.74 million Intermediate School No. 5* • Opening: 2026-27 school year • Bond funds allocated: $54.6 million Tomball West High School • Opening: 2026-27 school year • Bond funds allocated: $195.59 million
Enrollment vs. capacity These numbers represent 2030-31 projections without changing boundaries.
Capacity
Intermediate Elementary
Junior high High school
Canyon Pointe
Willow Creek
Capacity: 866
Capacity: 866
81% (702 students)
87% (757 students)
Creekside Forest Capacity: 714 79% (566 students)
Northpointe
Capacity: 980
Future site of Tomball West High School, West Intermediate and West Elementary
70% (684 students)
Creekview
Oakcrest
Capacity: 920
Capacity: 920
99
79% (727 students)
109% (999 students)
Decker Prairie
Tomball
Capacity: 888
Capacity: 975 XX%
JUERGEN RD.
163% (1,587 students)
114% (1,008 students)
Grand Oaks
Creekside Park
Capacity: 1000
Capacity: 1,500
160% (1,631 students)
62% (932 students)
N
Lakewood
Grand Lakes
Capacity: 866
Capacity: 1,500
84% (745 students)
79% (1189 students)
Tomball Innovation Center
Rosehill
Tomball
Capacity: 866
Capacity: 1,118
96% (841 students)
120% (1,339 students)
2920
Timber Creek
Willow Wood
Capacity: 920
Capacity: 1,264
93% (853 students)
62% (789 students)
Tomball
Tomball
Capacity: 866
Capacity: 3,628
109% (940 students)
130% (4,698 students)
Wildwood
Tomball Memorial Capacity: 3,000 122% (3,646 Students)
Capacity: 920
N
98% (897 students)
*SOME CREEKSIDE RESIDENTS ARE ADVOCATING FOR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL NO. 5 TO BE BUILT IN CREEKSIDE PARK. SOURCE: TOMBALL ISD COMMUNITY IMPACT
SOURCE: TOMBALL ISD COMMUNITY IMPACT
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