Northwest ISD’s board of trustees unanimously voted during its regular board meeting Nov. 9 to approve new high school attendance boundaries ahead of the opening of Davis High School for the 2027-28 school year.
The overview
The board approved the boundaries recommended by the District Attendance Boundary Committee and administration to accommodate the growing district, according to NISD documents.
The updated boundaries mean some students scheduled for Byron Nelson High School, Eaton High School and Northwest High School will now be slated to attend Davis High School, which is the district’s fourth comprehensive high school, according to a presentation from Sarah Stewart, NISD’s chief of facilities.
The approval came after the district held several community feedback meetings and met with the District Attendance Boundary Administration Oct. 27 to discuss the redrawn boundaries. District administration also met with Zonda Demographics multiple times to evaluate the attendance boundary adjustments, district documents state.
Board member Steve Sprowls asked that the boundaries be approved with the amendment that the Thousand Oaks neighborhood be added to allow those residents to remain in Northwest ISD in the Northwest High School feeder pattern. That neighborhood was not included in the original boundary plan presented at the Sept. 28 meeting.
Funding for Davis High School comes from the voter-approved 2023 bond worth nearly $2 billion.
A closer look
Davis High School is located in the southern portion of the district and will affect the feeder patterns for Northwest High School, Byron Nelson High School and Eaton High School, according to the presentation.
Stewart also said the district asked for community feedback via a survey that was available from Oct. 26-30. She said after community feedback and discussions with the district, the following adjustments were made to the proposed boundaries:
Hughes Elementary School students living north of SH 170 will move from the Byron Nelson feeder pattern to the Davis feeder pattern. Now all of Hughes Elementary will feed into Davis High School.
Eaton High School will retain the Bridgeview, Spring Ranch and Lonesome Dove communities. These communities were originally proposed to feed into Davis High School.
All communities north of Seven Hills Road in the Seven Hills Elementary School attendance zone will be zoned for Northwest High School. Students in these areas were originally proposed to attend Eaton High School.
Sprowls said that no matter what the board does, not everyone is going to be happy with decisions that affect the entire district. He said the board mobilizes committees made up of district administration, teachers, parents, community leaders and even students to make these district-wide decisions.
“When you take that group of people and they come up with a decision, we as a board have to respect that,” he said. “We will put [the proposal] out through the community for input and then we make adjustments based on that [and] have a final product.”
Also of note
Rising freshmen and sophomores rezoned for Davis High School may remain at their current school under the following conditions:
They are enrolled in an academy at their current high school
They are attending under a staff transfer
They have a rising junior sibling who will remain at their current high school
Within existing high schools, students who wish to remain at their school must meet the following criteria:
Seniors may remain at their current school
Sophomores and juniors may remain at their current school depending on attendance capacity
Students must have good attendance and behavioral standing
District transportation won’t be provided for rezoned students who choose to stay at their schools
The backstory
This is the second time in less than a year that attendance boundaries in NISD have been updated due to new school openings.
Romer Elementary School and Barksdale Middle School opened in August, which prompted attendance boundaries and feeder patterns to be updated before the start of the 2026-27 school year, Community Impact previously reported.
NISD is one of the fastest-growing districts in North Texas, prompting NISD officials to call for the bond in 2023 to construct new facilities to address population growth, according to previous reporting. Several schools and facilities are in the process of being updated, constructed or were recently completed.
