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Spring ISD trustees review five optimization scenarios as consultants cite $13 million shortfall and falling enrollment
Summary
Consultants presented five draft "optimization" scenarios to Spring Independent School District trustees to address a roughly $13 million budget shortfall and multi-year enrollment declines, proposing campus consolidations, rezoning and TEA-approved interventions and announcing community work sessions and an online survey ahead of a December decision.
Spring Independent School District trustees on Thursday heard draft "optimization" scenarios from Civic Solutions Group intended to address a reported $13 million budget shortfall and falling student enrollment across the district.
Consultant Olin Parker told trustees the district’s elementary schools are at about 64% capacity, middle schools 61% and high schools 54%, and that maintaining underused facilities diverts money from teacher pay, programming and building improvements. He said the district’s unofficial Oct. 31 enrollment count was roughly 1,100 students lower than demographer projections and about 600 lower than last year.
The recommendation package released in draft form includes five scenario categories: consolidations and rezoning for under-enrolled campuses (for example, closing or consolidating Link Elementary), a multi-campus middle-school rezone that would center on the recommended closure of Do It Middle School, and implementation of TEA-approved turnaround or redesign models — ACE, 1882 partnerships and ADZi extended-day/year models — at select campuses. The report…
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