CSISD details proposed elementary, intermediate and middle school boundary plans; more than 1,000 public comments received

College Station Independent School District staff presented proposed boundary adjustments for elementary, intermediate and middle schools, outlined three draft plans that would shift neighborhoods between schools, and described community feedback collected since the proposals were posted.

A resident from Castle Gate, Heather Green, told the board she opposed moving Cascade’s intermediate and middle students onto Victoria Avenue because of traffic and safety concerns. “The Victoria Corridor cannot support the traffic … It is already a nightmare during the school year,” Green said, adding that as a runner she feared the additional traffic would present “a safety concern to our walking and biking students.”

District administrators said three elementary plans and multiple intermediate/middle options aim to address campuses at or above capacity and to balance economically disadvantaged percentages across feeder patterns. Presenter Miss Wilson walked trustees through map differences, including proposals that would move parts of the district across Highway 6, shift small subdivisions between Pebble Creek, Forest Ridge, Spring Creek, College Hills and other schools, and consolidate some “islands” of students who currently travel long distances to attend a particular elementary campus.

Mister Dunson said the district posted the proposed plans online after an initial board presentation and had since “garnered a little over a thousand comments across the board.” He said elementary Plan 5 was comparatively preferred in the feedback because it reduces isolated zones that send children far from neighborhood schools. For intermediate and middle school maps the feedback was mixed; intermediate Plan 4 was slightly favored for how it adjusted economically disadvantaged percentages.

Staff outlined next steps: refine maps based on feedback, convene a community forum (staff mentioned August 19 as a target), run transportation and traffic logistics with the transportation department, and return revised maps to the board in August. Staff said the district could adopt boundary changes as early as September if public input supports a plan, but stressed a final deadline of no later than November to set boundaries for the 2026 school year.

Trustees discussed trade‑offs between capacity, socioeconomic balance and extracurricular opportunities at intermediate and middle schools, and asked staff to clarify whether the district would pursue changes to out‑of‑district transfer policy to ease capacity concerns.

Ending: Staff will continue to accept public comments through the end of the month, update maps and present revised plans to the board in August for further consideration; no rezoning vote occurred at this meeting.