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Royse City ISD enrollment edges up; facilities team reviews functional vs. maximum capacity
Summary
Superintendent reported district enrollment at 10,265 students (up 8 since January) while facilities consultants reviewed building capacity numbers and functional-capacity planning across campuses, noting the new Worthy FATE high school is designed for about 2,600 students.
Superintendent Anderson reported Royse City ISD enrollment at 10,265 students, a modest increase of eight students since January, while cautioning high-school counts have varied by how inactive students are filtered from campus totals.
"We are 10,265 students as of today, and that's a growth of 8 students since January," Dr. Anderson told trustees, and she pointed the public to an online enrollment dashboard listing monthly updates by campus. The superintendent also addressed confusion around an unfiltered high-school number provided by a campus, explaining the district’s official counts exclude inactive or withdrawn students.
Consultant Ross Rivers (BLK) then walked the board through three capacity measures—international building code occupancy, maximum capacity used by demographers, and functional capacity used for planning. Rivers said functional capacity is the planning standard (for example, Summers Middle School has a functional capacity just over 1,000), and provided updated classroom-capacity figures after bond-funded additions. He noted Royce City High School’s functional capacity after 2021 renovations approaches 3,000 students and that Worthy FATE is being designed for roughly 2,600 students when it comes online.
Trustees said the capacity distinctions are important for demography, programming and future bond planning. Staff noted the district will keep publishing monthly enrollment and capacity data on the bond/growth webpage.
