Klein ISD has set new intermediate school attendance zones for the 2018-19 school year in preparation for the opening of Hofius Intermediate School on West Rayford Road in August and a future intermediate school opening in 2022 or 2023. All intermediate schools except for Klein will be affected by the changes. The construction of Hofius was funded by $60 million of the district’s $498.1 million bond package approved by voters in 2015. The future intermediate school will be funded by a separate bond package the district will probably ask voters to approve in 2020, said Judy Rimato, KISD associate superintendent for communications and planning. Some students who currently attend Hildebrandt, Krimmel or Ulrich intermediate schools have been rezoned to Hofius. Both Hofius and the future unnamed school will be located in the north area of the district because that is where the majority of the district’s growth is taking place, Rimato said. The future school will be necessary because even with the rezoning and Hofius opening this fall, numerous intermediate schools will be at or over maximum student capacity. For example, Krimmel—which is located on FM 2920 and will see its attendance zones change in the fall—is projected to reach 121 percent capacity by 2020 based on new attendance zones. “One-hundred percent utilization is the best because that means the school is full, and we are utilizing it to its capacity,” Rimato said. “You can go over 100 percent, but we like to think of 120 percent as the tipping point where we want to get a new school open.” Rimato said when a school reaches 120 percent utilization, common areas, such as the library, restrooms, hallways and cafeteria can become overcrowded. Although it is too early to know which attendance zones the future school will affect, it will probably serve the area where Hofius, Krimmel, Hildebrandt, Ulrich and Doerre intermediate schools are located, Rimato said. When the unnamed intermediate school opens in 2022 or 2023, schools on the east side of the district will not have to be rezoned again, Rimato said. “We tried to get all of the schools on the east side … as stable as we could because we’re not going to be doing any rezoning for them for a good while,” Rimato said. Stabilizing intermediate schools on the east side of the district required significant changes to existing attendance zones. For example, a northern portion of Schindewolf’s current attendance zone near the Grand Parkway has been rezoned to Hildebrandt, while a southern portion of Schindewolf near Louetta Road has been rezoned to Strack. Although the rezoning affects almost every intermediate school in the district, there is an option that allows students to remain in their current attendance zones as long as their parents can provide transportation, Rimato said. The new attendance zones were drawn based on community feedback, and they were approved by the KISD board of trustees at its Feb. 12 meeting, Rimato said.