At the district’s board of trustees meeting Jan. 11, trustees unanimously approved a six-part recommendation presented by Carroll ISD administration to address student growth management and capital needs for the upcoming school year.

In previous board meetings, trustees discussed the possibility of moving the preschool program to Durham Intermediate School to increase capacity at the elementary schools. There are overcrowding issues at Carroll, Johnson and Walnut Grove elementary schools.

However, in the approved plan, it was recommended that the preschool program not be moved to DIS.

Other parts of the plan include making all five elementary school principals identify one to two existing classrooms that could be used to handle additional enrollment, purchasing portable buildings and putting a temporary freeze on new open enrollment and transfer requests to those campuses which are at or near capacity. Also included is surveying CES families north of FM 1709 to obtain feedback on a proposal to fix the split CES attendance zone and adding temporary positions to accommodate support for WGES.

Julie Thannum, CISD assistant superintendent for board and community relations, said the board will vote on the amount of portables needed as well as additional staffing needs at later meetings.

Thannum said the recommendation is only a short-term fix.