The special meeting comes less than two months after a committee was formed to consider which campuses could see closures.
The Educational Facilities Alignment Committee was originally slated to meet six times between September and December, but a seventh meeting was added Nov. 4 where members made a final decision on what campuses will be recommended for repurposing, district documents state. The special board meeting is taking place one day later.
The details
The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Nov. 5 at the McKinney ISD Stadium and Event Center, located at 4201 S. Hardin Blvd., McKinney.
The agenda includes an opportunity for public comment, followed by a closed meeting of the board. Following the closed meeting, the board will reconvene in open session for the agenda’s single discussion and action item.
The item will ask the board to consider and take possible action to approve the committee's recommendation on which three elementary school campuses will be closed prior to the 2026-27 school year and repurposed for other district uses. The campuses considered for closure included 13 schools that are located south of US 380 and west of US 75.
The committee has met four times since being created. A community input meeting was held Oct. 21, which garnered about 285 attendees, district documents state.
The context
MISD trustees voted unanimously to create the Educational Facilities Alignment Committee at a Sept. 15 meeting.
The committee was tasked with studying both current school attendance zones and projected population growth prior to making recommendations on potential changes at a December board meeting. The group’s recommendations will include identifying three elementary schools to close and repurpose, as well as the realignment of attendance zones for elementary, middle and high schools.
The need for campus closures and attendance zone realignment was spurred by projected enrollment growth in the district’s northwest sector, while the southwest sector is seeing a slight enrollment decline, district documents state.
The southwest sector is where the district’s open capacity is for elementary students, while some campuses in the north and northeast sectors are projected to see enrollment surpasses functional capacity limits in the coming years.
Looking ahead
Three more committee meetings are scheduled for November and December. A second community feedback session is slated for 6-8 p.m. Dec. 2 at the McKinney ISD Community Event Center.
Visit www.communityimpact.com/news/dallas-fort-worth/mckinney for continued coverage of the consideration of school closures in McKinney ISD.
