Cy-Fair ISD is adjusting attendance boundaries with two new high schools expected to open over the next two school years. The solid blue lines indicate current boundaries. The coloring for each school indicates proposed boundaries.[/caption]

District officials with Cy-Fair ISD released proposed attendance boundaries Nov. 16 to reflect the opening of Cypress Park High School before the 2016-17 school year and the unnamed high school No. 12 before the 2017-18 school year.

Bringing students to new high schools is expected to alleviate enrollment numbers at existing high schools that are nearing capacity, said Kristi Giron, CFISD’s director of general administration. Schools targeted for relief include Jersey Village High School, Cy Lakes and Cy Falls in the southern part of the district in 2016 and Cy Ranch, Cy-Fair and Cy Falls again in the northern part of the district in 2017.

“With [Cy Park’s] location in the south, we’re going to have a few more shifts in that area,” Giron said at the Nov. 16 meeting. “The changes in the northern part will be a little more obvious with fewer shifts.”

Potential rezoning was broken down by residential codes. The full report of the proposed boundaries can be found on the CFISD website. An in-depth look at the proposed changes will also be included in the Dec. 17 edition of Community Impact Newspaper. Under current proposals, a total of 1,606 high school students and 1,028 middle school students would be affected for the 2016-17 school year.

In 2016, several residential codes in the JVHS area would be rezoned to Cypress Ridge. A portion of Cy Falls would be rezoned to Langham Creek, and the Barker Cypress Road would become the dividing line between Langham Creek and Cy Springs zones. Portions of Cy Springs and Cy Lakes would be rezoned as Cypress Park, which is under construction near Westgreen Boulevard and FM 529.

In 2017, portions of Cy-Fair, Cy Falls and Cy Woods would all be rezoned to Cy Ranch, and the portion of Cy Ranch north of Hwy. 290 would be rezoned to Cy Woods. The portion of Cy Ranch west of Fry and Mueschke roads would then be rezoned to the new high school No. 12, which will extend out to the district’s western and northern borders, covering the Fairfield and Bridgeland communities.

The rezoning will only apply to students entering ninth and 10th grades, Giron said. Students entering 11th and 12th grades will remain at their current high schools. Families with one sibling entering ninth or 10th grade and another entering 11th or 12th will get the option to keep both students together. Otherwise, students maintain the ability to transfer back to their old schools, but would have to adhere to district transfer policies and regulations.

Proposals also include rezoning various middle schools for the 2016-17 school year to keep feeder patterns in line. The full details can be found in the district report.

The proposals were devised and fine-tuned over the past 1.5 years by an internal committee of administrators. The committee based changes on a number of factors including campus feeder patterns, keeping communities together, campus capacities and enrollment projections over the next five years from the demographic research firm Population and Survey Analysts, said Teresa Hull, associate superintendent of governmental relations, communications and chief of staff.

“We also wanted to minimize the changes,” Hull said. “We didn’t want to move kids just to move kids, but obviously some will need to move to populate the new schools.”

The committee was composed of CFISD administrators representing different parts of the district and different areas of responsibility, Hull said. Next steps include opening the proposals up to feedback from the community and reviewing feedback publicly at two upcoming meetings Dec. 10 and 14. Feedback can be submitted on the district website.

“We don’t have any parents on the internal committee, but they will have the opportunity regardless of where they live to give input and feedback,” Hull said. “Come Dec. 10, we’ll post a discussion item to review any input we’ve received, look at the questions we’ve been asked and discuss the feedback publicly.”

On Jan. 11, the committee will send the board the final recommendations for boundary changes, Hull said. Board approval would take place Jan. 19 at the earliest.