The Tomball ISD board of trustees presented updates Feb. 9 on four new schools scheduled to open in the 2015–16 and 2016–17 academic years, two of which are schools in The Woodlands.

TISD Director of Construction Gary Hutton said that construction on Creekview Elementary School and Creekside Park Junior High School is behind schedule from about four weeks to six weeks due to rain delays.

"Everything right now is about catching up to schedule and getting back on schedule," Hutton said.

TISD officials are planning to move furniture into the new schools in early July for the August opening of Creekview Park, Hutton said.

The other two schools TISD plans to open include Wildwood Elementary School on Northpointe Boulevard and Oakcrest Intermediate School on Shaw Road.

The construction of Creekview, on New Harmony Place in The Woodlands, is $16.9 million and is about six weeks behind schedule, Hutton said. The school will serve 900 students in kindergarten through fifth grade and relieve Creekside Forest and Timber Creek elementary schools, he said.

"Even though six weeks sounds like a lot, it's not going to impact the school significantly," Hutton said.

Slated to open at the start of the 2016–17 school year, Creekside Park is about four weeks behind schedule due to setbacks from 26 rain days, Hutton said. The $38 million school, at Creekside Green Drive and Kuykendahl Road in The Woodlands, will hold 1,500 students in sixth through eighth grades upon completion in August 2016, he said.

"Our hope is to have the football fields finished by June, so we'll have a year of growth on the fields before kids get out there and play," Hutton said. "Right now, we're basically on schedule on that side of the field—it's really in building and utilities [that] we're behind schedule."