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EMS ISD report warns vouchers, charters and private schools could slow public enrollment growth
Summary
District demographer presented quarterly housing and enrollment analysis showing strong local housing pipeline but statewide shifts to virtual, charter and private enrollment and a new state voucher program could reduce public-school enrollment and revenue.
Eagle Mountain Saginaw Independent School District officials told the board on May 19 that steady local homebuilding and a large pipeline of future lots are likely to sustain growth in some attendance zones but that statewide shifts — rising virtual and charter enrollment and a forthcoming state voucher program — could reduce traditional public-school enrollment and district revenue.
The district’s first-quarter demographics and housing briefing showed the DFW region still has low unemployment and continued job growth, and the district ranked eighth in annual single-family closings with 1,784. But presenter Bob Tinkleton said first-quarter housing starts were down notably and that the district recorded about 1,800 vacant developed lots and 9,368 future lots across the attendance zones.
“T he Eagle Mountain Elementary zone will see sustained growth just because of that high number of future lots,” Tinkleton said, noting Hatley Elementary had the most annualized starts in the quarter…
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