Over the next five years, Clear Creek ISD could have to consider over $124 million in facility upgrades, according to a year-long study run by the district to better understand the condition of its dozens of schools and campuses.
The details
The district worked with Houston-based PBK Architects to conduct the year-long analysis of every CCISD facility, which concluded in August, CCISD Superintendent Karen Engle said at a Sept. 14 board workshop.
In June 2025, the district authorized a detailed analysis of all district facilities and infrastructure and, in October, authorized uploading the findings to Origin, a data analysis software that would help district leaders better understand the condition of CCISD’s facilities and the costs of repairs, Engle said.
By the numbers
The analysis divided each facility into sections and assets, such as heat pumps and cooling towers, and then assessed the condition, characteristics and lifecycle of those assets, according to a presentation by CCISD Director of Facility Services Alex Aragon to the board of trustees.
The software also produced five- and ten-year forecasts on anticipated facility upgrade costs, based on data input from the initial analysis.
The analysis cataloged thousands of assets across several categories, including mechanical, plumbing, roofing and electrical, according to the presentation.
As an example, Aragon presented data showing all the assets throughout the district from seven mechanical types, a portion of the total mechanical assets cataloged, which totaled more than 3,000 individual assets, including:
In their own words
Trustee Rebecca Lilley thanked district staff who worked on the analysis and said ensuring students had clean, well-ventilated, temperature-controlled facilities was critical to the district’s educational mission.
“Our students can’t learn unless they are safe and comfortable, and their environment is comfortable," Lilley said at the workshop. "Every single thing you do leads to that."
Next steps
Aragon recommended the district review the Origin dashboard annually, tag projects by priority and update the model when asset upgrades are completed.
“This is going to be a continuous, living organism,” Aragon said. “It has to be.”
