Spring ISD rearranges elementary school boundaries for 2023-24 school year

The entire Spring Crossing neighborhood and the northern portion of the Breckenridge Forest neighborhood are currently zoned to Marshall Elementary and will be zoned to Smith Elementary in the upcoming year. Pieces of Clark Elementary will also be split off for Heritage and Cooper elementaries, and a portion of Burchett Elementary will go to Anderson Elementary.

Students living in the southern portion of the Cypress Station neighborhood—which is located near the intersection of FM 1960 and I-45—will be attending Meyer Elementary beginning in 2023-24. Previously, those students were zoned to Salyers Elementary.

Unlike the other boundary changes, the Cypress Station boundary change was made because of long bus commute times for students, Miranda said. The commute was taking between 15 minutes and 45 minutes due to traffic, but it will be cut to 10 minutes with the rezoning.

On April 11, the new boundaries were approved in a 6-1 vote with board President Justine Durant dissenting.

“When we embark upon boundary changes, I would like for us to have done it more holistically in looking at our disrupted, not-clear feeder patterns from our middle schools and to our high schools, and have done it all at one time,” Durant said.

Along with school capacity, district leaders also considered equity for students when planning the rezoning, Miranda said.

“One of the things from an equity standpoint is we wanted to make sure that we weren't going to disproportionately move students, especially economically disadvantaged students,” he said. “So the numbers are pretty balanced between the campuses.”