Junior high and high school students in Tomball ISD will have the option to take new classes in the 2026-27 school year, including Mariachi I and II, Scientific Research and Design, and Musical Theater, after trustees approved changes to the district’s course catalog during their Nov. 11 meeting.

Chief Academic Officer Michael Webb presented the changes to the school board during the Nov. 10 workshop meeting, which includes 17 new courses and three course removals. Of the 17 new courses:
  • Six are career and technical education
  • Five are fine arts
  • Four are languages other than English
  • Two are science
Diving in deeper

According to Webb’s presentation, the new junior high-level courses for 2026-27 are:
  • Mariachi I and II
  • Spanish II
  • General Employability Skills
At the junior high school level, the courses Touch Systems Data Entry and College and Career Exploration will be removed in place of General Employability Skills, Webb said. There will be no staffing impact from adding Mariachi I and II and General Employability Skills, and staffing for Spanish II will be based on enrollment.

Additionally, Webb said the following courses will be introduced at the high school level in 2026-27:
  • Turf and Grass Management
  • Landscape Design and Maintenance
  • Scientific Research and Design
  • CTE Project-Based Capstone
  • Energy and Natural Resource Technology
  • Chinese III and IV
  • German 5
  • Musical Theater I, II, III and IV
  • Dual-Credit Environmental Science I and II
The only high school-level courses that will have staffing impacts are Chinese III and IV and German 5, and staffing will be based on enrollment, Webb said. The one high school-level course that would be removed would be Crafts, which Webb said has low enrollment.

Also of note


In response to a question from board Secretary John McStravick, Webb said the district does not have grants in place to help students pay for any course fees but that TISD would work to make sure any student could still take a course.

“We’re not going to let $25 prevent a student from taking a course,” Webb said. “We do that right now with dual-credit fees. We’ll find a way to make sure that that student is able to take that course.”

Stay tuned

The new courses will be added to the junior high and high school course catalogs for the 2026-27 school year.