BY BRITTANY ANDERSON
What they’re saying
Next steps
Draft scenario timeline If all 12 draft scenarios presented were implemented, changes would begin in the 2027-28 school year. 2026-27 Create task force for approved scenarios 2027-28 Close Dessau, Parmer Lane, Pflugerville and Windermere elementary schools and Park Crest Middle School Shift high school schedules from block scheduling to traditional eight-period day 2028-29 Move early childhood, career and alternative programs to new facilities Close Westview Middle School 2029-30 Rezone elementary and high schools as needed
Parker said the draft scenarios would place students in higher-quality facilities and campuses with better academic performance. He said districts can become “financially efficient and produce better student outcomes.” However, Connally High School parent Mike Considine said there is a “pervasive assumption” that students would perform better at some schools compared to others throughout the scenarios. “The concept of high-performing schools, to me, is offensive because so much of the mea- surable performance is based on the economic resources that the students at that school have,” Considine said at a community meeting. “This whole idea that we’re going to close bad schools and put the kids in good schools, … you’re driving parents who look only at measurable school performance as to whether they’re going to send their kids to public school or not, away from public school.”
District officials held community meetings March 9-12 and a ThoughtExchange survey from March 5-April 10 to gather feedback on the draft scenarios. “Unlike some of our surrounding districts who are making decisions now that will commence next year at the start of the 2026-27 school year, we’ve said that we’re going to take a full year to plan and allow families to plan out how this is going to impact them directly,” Superintendent Quintin Shepherd said. “To try to ease the transition for families is key for us because, although this is very hard news, we want it to have a soft impact to the greatest extent possible. That’s why we’re taking a multiyear step approach to this.” District officials will present updated recommendations based on the community feedback gathered at a May board meeting, where trustees will vote on which optimization scenarios to take.
SOURCES: PFLUGERVILLE ISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT
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