High school student interest in agricultural science programs has exceeded the district's instructional capacity.

Ryan Merritt, PISD director of Career and Technical Education, told the board of trustees July 18 that during the last school year, the district's barns reached their maximum capacity of animals.

"As a district we will be 29 pens short of student demand [for the 2013–14 school year]," he said.

To meet the demand from students, the board of trustees is considering allowing the district to expand its Supervised Agricultural Experience facilities at Pflugerville and Hendrickson high schools. Merritt said the construction could be done at no additional cost to the district.