Pflugerville ISD is in the planning stages of a fourth high school that could open in 2015, PISD Superintendent Charles Dupre said April 3 at a community forum.

The new school, he said, is necessary to support the district's growth, especially at Hendrickson High School.

"Primarily because Hendrickson High School is slated to be substantially over capacity in the next several years," Dupre said.

According to the school district's enrollment Web page, Hendrickson High School currently has 2,291 students. Pflugerville and Connally high schools have 2,293 and 2,008 students, respectively.

However, because Hendrickson serves the northeast portion of the city—an area expected to see the most residential growth over the next several years due to several growing subdivisions—its student population could balloon past 3,000 quickly, Dupre said.

"It's an ugly picture if we don't get a new school open soon," he said.

He said the new school could be open as soon as 2015, but that the school district would need to pass a bond election—planned for May 2013—first.

The bond would primarily fund the construction of the new high school, but Dupre said it could also include an expansion of career and technical education programs and possibly a new football stadium for Pflugerville High School.

Dupre also said the district was considering several locations for the new high school, including on property off of Cele Road near the upcoming Cele Middle School or off of Killingsworth Lane.

Though Dupre indicated the Cele Road location was more likely, he said the location of a fourth high school was "still very much up in the air at this point."