Katy ISD approves construction plans for new elementary school

The change to the opening date was made in November after an update on enrollment projections from the district’s demographers, McElwain said.

“By building it a year early, it will help respond to the high enrollment growth in that portion of the district,” McElwain said.

The school will be located in Waller County, south of I-10, in the Young Ranch subdivision on Kingsland Boulevard and west of Pederson Road.

It will be designed to hold a capacity of 1,030 students.

The school will provide crowding relief for Wolman and WoodCreek elementary schools.

Elementary No. 40 is estimated to cost about           $31.7 million and is a “refined repeat design” of two new elementary schools currently under construction and opening in August—MayDell Jenks Elementary School and Catherine Bethke Elementary School.

The cost of the school will be $1.2 million less than what was originally projected in the original bond allocation, McElwain said.

Other schools opening in fall 2017 along with Elementary School No. 40 are Junior High School No. 15 and High School No. 8.

None of the schools have been named.