The College Station ISD school board is making boundary adjustments for College Station and A&M Consolidated High Schools.
Three boundary adjustment workshops are scheduled, along with one public forum to receive input from the community.
The board’s goal is to finish the process of redrawing boundaries by the end of the spring semester, but they would not take effect until the 2019-2020 school year.
Click below to hear CSISD Director of Communications Chuck Glenewinkel visiting with WTAW’s Chelsea Reber.
From March CSISD Board Workshop/Meeting Recap:
Annual Enrollment Review Discussion: At the February board meeting, the board voted to readjust the boundaries for the district’s two comprehensive high schools. The work will take place during this current academic semester, but not take effect until the 2019-20 school year.
Redrawing the attendance boundaries at the high school level, CSISD should be able to delay the need for a bond election to add capacity at College Station High School.
In this month’s workshop, the board finalized the process (including how and when to receive community feedback) and set dates for futures boundary adjustment workshops.
Spring 2018 High School Boundary Adjustment Schedule:
· Wednesday, March 28 — 5:00 p.m. — Boundary Adjustment Workshop to present process and initial options of new high school attendance boundaries.
· Monday, April 2 — 5:30 p.m. — Public Forum to receive input from community
· Wednesday, April 4 — 3:00 p.m. — Boundary Adjustment Workshop
· Monday, April 9 — 5:00 p.m. — Boundary Adjustment Workshop
· More workshop dates will be scheduled if necessary.
In addition to the rezoning to attempt to delay another bond election, some older bond issuances will be paid off over the course of the next two years. This is projected to lower the CSISD I&S tax rate by 1.91 cents in the 2018-19 fiscal year and an additional 6.44 cents in the 2019-20. The estimates are generated off a projected 6% CSISD property value increase each year.
Background — At the December 19 board meeting, the board received information regarding projected growth for CSISD. Rocky Gardiner from Templeton Demographics shared the district’s annual enrollment update which included information on the housing and labor markets, current and future subdivisions, and 10-year growth projections by campus. A key component of the presentation, was information regarding the new K-8 charter school that will open in August.
Also at the December meeting, Deputy Superintendent Mike Martindale shared the annual enrollment review and report with the board and community as a part of board policy FC (Local).
The December enrollment update indicated the most significant area to consider addressing is the classroom capacity of College Station High School. It showed AMCHS is at less than 85% capacity and it is projected to stay at under 85% capacity through the 2020-21 school year. Additionally, CSHS is expected to be at more than 110% capacity by the 2020-21 school year.
Based on the options available through policy FC (Local), CSISD is already planning to add portable classrooms to CSHS for the 2018-19 school year to accommodate student growth.