Read more about three education stories from Grapevine-Colleyville and Carroll ISDs, such as an updated fiscal year 2025-26 budget projection and more than $9 million in districtwide campus repairs.
Don T. Durham Intermediate School property sale
The Carroll ISD board of trustees unanimously approved its next step to sell the CISD property located on 801 Shady Oaks Drive, which is where Don T. Durham Intermediate School is located, at its Feb. 23 board meeting.
The board is issuing a request for qualifications to find property broker services to aid the district with the eventual selling of the property, which won’t be done until the 2027-28 school year.
“Selling government surplus property is ... time consuming, and there’s a lot of steps that we have to take to legally be able to sell property,” Superintendent Jeremy Glenn said.
The request for broker services will be posted for three weeks to see who is interested in helping the district sell the property, Glenn said. Once they get the applications back, district officials will bring the board of trustees a declaration to sell the surplus property after the board declares the property surplus.
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Grapevine-Colleyville ISD budget projection update
Grapevine-Colleyville ISD is projected to end the 2025-26 fiscal year with a shortfall of about $1.47 million, according to a report from Director of Finance Paula McBride at a Feb. 23 trustee meeting.
McBride’s report shows the district’s fund balance will drop from about $39.7 million to $38.3 million at the end of the current fiscal year June 30. The fund balance dropped about $1.47 million over that time.
McBride also said that enrollment for the 2025-26 school year was 242 students less than anticipated, which could result in a higher than expected recapture payment, contributing to the shortfall. GCISD’s recapture payment projection can fluctuate throughout the year, GCISD Executive Communications Director Nicole Lyons said. The adopted 2025-26 budget showed an anticipated recapture payment of $31.1 million.
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Grapevine-Colleyville ISD campus repairs, improvements
Six Grapevine-Colleyville ISD campuses will receive repairs and renovations over the summer following approval from trustees at a March 30 school board meeting.
Trustees approved roughly $9.43 million for repair projects at:
- Bear Creek Elementary School
- Glenhope Elementary School
- Grapevine Elementary School
- O.C. Taylor Elementary School
- Timberline Elementary School
- Colleyville Middle School
District documents show the $9.43 million is roughly $1.4 million over budget, but GCISD Chief Operations Officer Paula Barbaroux said the district has about $4 million in savings from previous projects that can cover the overage.
“The amount we were able to save on the [2025] projects [was] up to $4 million,” Barbaroux said. “It’s definitely doable for us to make this recommendation.”
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