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Argyle ISD considers reconfiguring grade spans and rezoning to avoid future overcapacity
Summary
Argyle ISD administrators presented a long-range facilities plan proposing to convert the planned Michael Ball elementary into a 5–6 intermediate campus and to rezone undeveloped First Ranch parcels. The change aims to defer high-school capacity pressures into the mid-2030s and reduce the need for a sixth elementary.
Argyle ISD trustees on March 23 heard a detailed long-range facilities presentation that would change grade spans and rezone undeveloped land to avoid building underused campuses a decade from now.
Administrators said the proposal would convert Michael Ball (the campus currently in design) from a preK–5 elementary into an intermediate 5–6 campus, move fifth graders into an intermediate, place seventh–eighth graders at Gibson Middle School, and rezone a portion of the undeveloped First Ranch (Flower Mound) area into the western feeder. The administration said those steps would free classroom capacity across the district, reduce the number of students needing reassignment in 2027, and push projected Argyle High School capacity pressure from about 2030 to roughly 2034.
Why it matters: district demographer projections show several hundred open…
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