Conroe - Montgomery Edition | July 2023

EDUCATION Conroe ISD to open 3 new schools in August Conroe ISD is opening three new schools in August as part of a $653.57 million bond referendum voters approved in November 2019. The package included opening ve new campuses and repurposing a sixth, among other projects. Hope Elementary School opened in August 2021, followed by Gordon Reed Elementary School in August 2022. Following the campuses opening this August, Bartlett Elementary School will be the last school to open from the bond in August 2024. BY CASSANDRA JENKINS

CAMPUS RENOVATIONS 4 Oak Ridge High School overhaul The project includes auditorium improvements. Cost: $500,000 Completion: August 5 Caney Creek High School upgrades The project includes upgrades to security cameras, re alarm system, controls systems and a rst responder radio signal amplier. Cost: $1.5 million Completion: August 6 Collins Intermediate School additions and renovations This will replace interior heating, ventila- tion and air conditioning components. Cost: $1.8 million Completion: August OVERCROWDING RELIEF Conroe ISD’s enrollment is expected to surpass 73,000 students in 2023-24. With an enrollment at 102% of its facilities’ maximum capacities, the district’s three new schools opening in August are expected to help bring some relief to overcrowded campuses.

PHOTOS BY CASSANDRA JENKINSCOMMUNITY IMPACT

1 Hines Elementary School Hines Elementary School will open in the Grand Oaks feeder zone at 27980 Wood- bridge Cove Drive, Spring, to help relieve over- crowding at Synder and Broadway elementary schools.

2 Veterans Memorial Intermediate School

3 Moorhead Junior High School As the former campus is repurposed, Moorhead Junior High School will move to a new location in the Caney Creek feeder zone at 13715 Grangerland Road in Conroe with increased capacity serving the Conroe area.

The former Moorhead Junior High School will become Veterans Memorial Intermediate School in the Caney Creek feeder to help alle- viate Grangerland Intermediate School. Opening: August Cost: part of $50.4 million renovation package Grades: 56 Mascot: Eagles Principal: Amber Debeaumont

Opening: August Cost: $35.4 million Grades: K4 Mascot: Huskies Principal: Erin Mathe

Opening: August Cost: $67.4 million Grades: 78 Mascot: Panthers Principal: Robert Garcia

Capacity

Projected enrollment

Hines Elementary School

1488

751

950

1485

242

Veterans Memorial Intermediate School

OAK RIDGE NORTH

1,050

655

SHADOWBEND PL.

2090

OAK RIDGE SCHOOL RD.

Moorhead Junior High School

THE WOODLANDS

BIRNHAM WOODS DR.

99 TOLL

GROGANS MILL DR.

GRANGERLAND RD.

1,600

1,394

3083

WOODBRIDGE COVE DR.

SOURCE: CONROE ISDCOMMUNITY IMPACT

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