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Consultant: Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD enrollment to grow ~2,000–4,000 students over decade amid strong homebuilding
Summary
A district demographic presentation showed strong housing activity in parts of the district, 2,200 home closings in 2024, and projections that enrollment could reach about 27,900 students in 10 years, driven by concentrated growth in several elementary attendance zones.
Bob Templeton, staff member, told the Eagle Mountain-Saginaw Independent School District board on Feb. 24 that the Dallas–Fort Worth housing market remains active and that local building will drive student growth in the coming decade.
Templeton said the DFW region’s unemployment rate remains around 4 percent and Texas leads the nation in new-home starts. ‘‘Dallas–Fort Worth is number one in the country for new home starts,’’ Templeton said. He reported an annualized start rate of 47,421 for the DFW region and said state and regional starts and closings have begun to converge.
The consultant told the board the district saw about 2,213 annualized home closings in the district for 2024, with an annualized start rate of 1,676, about 1,946 developed vacant lots available and more than 10,800 future lots in the planning pipeline. Templeton said the average new-home price in the district is about $376,000 and the…
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