The Frisco ISD Board of Trustees officially named four planned schools at its Sept. 7 meeting and agreed to fast-track an elementary school to be open by fall 2015.
Elementary School No. 38, to be built on Independence Parkway just southeast of Independence High School, will relieve Ashley Elementary in northeast Frisco. Student enrollment has been capped for the past two years at Ashley and it is about 100 students above capacity.
The school, now Norris Middle School, is named after Armetha Norris, a parent a nurse who responsible for developing FISD's school nurse system and health system in the 1970s.
High School No. 9, to be built south of the FISD Administration Building at Ohio Drive and Lebanon Drive, has been named Lebanon High School. Lebanon was named for the community of Lebanon, which predated Frisco by about 50 years. The school will open in fall 2016.
Middle School No. 15, near Stonebrook Parkway and Teel Parkway, has been named Pearson Middle School after Charles Bishop Pearson, an FISD trustee from 1960-72. It will open in 2015.
Middle School No. 16, at Coit Road and CR 68, has been named Lawler Middle School after the William Robert Lawler family for its contributions to the community and service to the U.S. It will open in 2016.
