Representatives of PBK Architects presented the campus's schematic design at a June 16 board meeting.
A closer look
The two-story campus will be located at a 13.5-acre site at the intersection of Tower Road and the future Saddleback Parkway near CR 258.
The 113,383-square-foot school will be designed similarly to Tierra Rosa Elementary, which opened in August 2024, with an increased capacity to accommodate 1,000 students, PBK Architects representative Darrell Pearson said.
The schematic design for Elementary School No. 9 includes the following features:
- First floor with prekindergarten through first grade classrooms
- Second floor with second through fifth grade classrooms
- Interior and exterior courtyards
- Gymnasium
- Cafeteria
- Media center/library
- Administrative spaces
- Carpool lane with a 260-vehicle capacity
- Bus loop
- Separate drop-off and pick-up location for special education students
In case you missed it
LHISD will open its eighth elementary school in the Lariat master-planned community in August 2026. Last year, the board voted to build the campus to accommodate 1,000 students, which is 200 more students than LHISD's existing elementary campuses.
The district, which has around 10,000 students, is projected to almost double its enrollment to over 19,000 students by the 2034-35 school year, according to an April demographic update from Zonda Education.
Amid the enrollment growth, LHISD has purchased a 160-acre tract of land in southwest Liberty Hill that could be the site of a future school, interim Superintendent Travis Motal told Community Impact.
Stay tuned
Construction work on Elementary School No. 9 will begin in April with an expected completion date of June 2027, Director of Construction Dustin Akin said.
