David and Terri Youngblood are the namesakes for Elementary School 45, which is set to be completed in August 2023, per the district’s 2021 bond webpage. Located at 25600 Longenbaugh Road, Katy, construction of the campus began October 2021 and will cost $35.74 million. It’s designed to accommodate 1,280 students.
David and Terri Youngblood were chosen as the namesakes for Elementary School 45, set to open in August. (Courtesy Katy ISD)
Per a Jan. 23 press release, David Youngblood served as a teacher, a swimming coach and the district’s first diving coach, an assistant principal and associate principal. He also founded the Katy ISD Summer Swimming Recreation Program.
Terri Youngblood was instrumental in the development of Katy ISD’s vocational, career and technical curriculum, per the release. She also served as Katy High School’s Career & Technical Education department chair and as a sponsor for the Future Business Leaders of America. Terri Youngblood also taught ESL classes through the district’s community education program.
David and Terri Youngblood Elementary is one part of the northwest facility—which will also incorporate High School 10, Junior High School 18 and the new Northwest Transportation Center—for which the final plat of land along Longenbaugh Road, east of the Katy Hockley Road, was approved Jan. 23.
The plat intersects the 257-acre land site, with the high school and junior high school situated south of Longenbaugh Road and Youngblood Elementary and the transportation site to the north.
With its approval, the plat supports construction development of the facilities, per supplemental documents from the meeting. In total, construction of the northwest facility package is estimated to cost more than $300 million, per 2021 bond documents.
Meanwhile, Elementary School 46 was dubbed Russell and Cindie Faldyn Elementary School.
Russell and Cindie Faldyn are the namesakes for Elementary School 46, set to open in August. (Courtesy Katy ISD)
Russell Faldyn accepted a principalship at Miller Career & Technology Center in 2017, according to the Jan. 23 press release. Before that, he served as a teacher, assistant principal, associate principal, hearing officer, elections administrator and the district’s director of community education.
With a 32-year career in public education, Cindie Faldyn served as a teacher at numerous campuses and as a science instructional coach. She was recognized as a 2006-07 Campus Teacher of the Year and was also named the first Katy ISD Math Lead Teacher, per the press release.
Russell and Cindie Faldyn Elementary School is also set to open in August, with construction costs projected at $37.62 million.
The school is located at 25615 Clay Road, Katy. With a capacity of 1,280 students, its development is meant to support the growth in the northwest quadrant of the Katy area.
