The zoning process to determine attendance boundaries for Conroe ISD’s upcoming K-6 campus, or Flex 19, will begin in late September or early October, Deputy Superintendent of Operations Chris Hines said. Construction began in mid-March on Flex 19 and is set to debut in August 2019 near Hwy. 242 at
10261 Harper’s School Road, Conroe. The school is funded through the district’s 2015 bond package.

Easy Foster, director of planning and construction, said the two-story campus will have a capacity of 1,000 students. The campus is being built to alleviate overcrowding at existing campuses along the Hwy. 242 corridor as well as to address future growth in that area, Foster said.

Hines said the trustees will approve the attendance boundaries in December 2018 or January 2019, if rezoning for Flex 19 follows the process CISD has used for other schools.

“People get comfortable with their schools ... so as a general rule we don’t like to change where they go to school either,” Hines said. “But there are reasons we have to look at the boundaries, and one of them is opening a new school—in the case of Flex 19. Another reason is schools get crowded, and we have to move students to where there  is more room.”

In the Hwy. 242 area, Vogel Intermediate School and Oak Ridge and Houser elementary schools are in need of relief and may be affected by the rezoning, according to Hines.