Fort Bend ISD revealed a draft of secondary boundary scenarios following the elementary review, which led to the closure of seven schools.
The draft changes are proposed as part of the district's three-year boundary planning process due to stabilized enrollment patterns, resulting in under- and overutilized campuses across the district.
The big picture
Beth Martinez, deputy superintendent chief of staff, said the planning efforts focus on potential modifications to secondary school attendance boundaries to relieve overutilization at Austin, Elkins and Travis high schools and align feeder patterns to the extent possible.
The draft plans include one scenario for middle school adjustments and two scenarios for high school adjustments. However, district officials said no schools will close as part of the secondary boundary process.
Diving in deeper
The draft middle school scenario includes four updates in the northern portion of the district and five updates in the southern portion.
The high school pattern was agreed upon by all members of the School Boundary Advisory Committee except for the method of relieving Elkins High School, SBAC Chair Monica Willis said.
“The discussion was not about whether Elkins needed relief—it was about the degree and method of relief,” she said.
The first option includes sending a portion of students to Clements High School, while the second option includes rezoning Quail Valley Middle School to Dulles High School and part of Elkins High School to Clements High School.
That first option would impact approximately 1,050 students, while the second would impact 1,561 students, officials said.
Get involved
District officials are seeking feedback from families, employees and community members on the draft middle and high school attendance boundary scenarios via an online survey from Aug. 18-30.
“Community feedback is an important part of this process,” Martinez said. “Once the survey closes, the responses will be reviewed and evaluated to help better understand the community’s feedback and assist in preparing final recommendations for board consideration.”
Stay tuned
Final boundary recommendations are slated to be presented to the board in September and October, per agenda documents. Although timelines are subject to change.
