Fort Bend ISD Holding Two Public Meetings to Discuss Attendance Zones

SUGAR LAND, TX -- The Fort Bend Independent School District will be soliciting feedback at two planned community meeting that will discuss changing attendance zones for 2017-2018 school year.

The community meetings will be Nov. 29 at Travis High School and Nov. 30 at Ridge Point High School, from 7 to 9 p.m., and are open to the public.

The Nov. 29 meeting at Travis High School will discuss the anticipated attendance zones changes that will be affected by the 49th and 50th elementary schools. Those campuses include: Oakland Elementary, Pecan Grove Elementary, Madden Elementary, Oyster Creek Elementary, Fleming Elementary, Bowie Middle School, Garcia Middle School, Seguin Elementary, Jordan Elementary, Mission West Elementary, Holley Elementary, Crockett Middle School and Hodge's Bend Middle School.

The Nov. 30 meeting at Ridge Point will address the schools affected by the 48th elementary and 15th middle school, and discuss the attendance zone changes and feeder patterns to the new and existing schools.

Those includes Schiff Elementary, Sienna Crossing Elementary, Scanlan Oaks Elementary, Heritage Rose Elementary, Baines Middle School and First Colony Middle School.

The discussions are needed because the district is continuing its steady growth and plans to open district's 48th, 49th and 50th elementary schools by the start of the 2017-2018 school year, and the district's 15th middle school by the start of the 2018-2019 school year.

Fort Bend ISD's 48th elementary school and 15th middle school will be located next to each other in Sienna Plantation South. The district's 49th and 50th elementary schools are on the Grand Parkway corridor, in the Harvest Green and Grand Vista developments.

The new elementary schools were funded by the 2014 Bond Program, while the middle school was funded by the 2007 Bond Program.

Attendance zone proposal for the campuses affected will be presented and discussed at those meetings, and will likely be considered by the Fort Bend ISD board of trustees in early 2017.

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