On the second go-around, the Fort Bend Independent School District Board of Trustees has agreed on a proposed attendance zone for Elementary #45, but the proposal provides little relief for overcrowding at Sienna Crossing Elementary or Scanlon Oaks Elementary.
“So, the truth is none of the options really provide relief,” said Board President Bob Broxson during Monday night’s workshop. “So, we sit and we are just juggling numbers between Scanlon and Sienna Crossing.”
Option 1, which will be presented for public hearings before the board votes on the plan, draws the attendance zone lines around existing neighborhoods, and has the portion of Fresno at Hwy. 6 and FM 521 rezoned Elementary School #45 at 636 Glendale Lakes Drive in Rosharon.
To view a map of the proposed zones, click here.
Currently, Scanlon Oaks has 958 students in a building designed for 820 students. The school has four portable buildings. Sienna Crossing has 964 students and 9 portable buildings on a campus designed for 820 students.
The existing campus that would benefit from the proposed rezoning is Schiff Elementary – a school already under capacity with 816 students in a building designed to accommodate 860.
The new attendance zones would lower Scanlon Oaks to 947 students, Sienna Crossing to 928 students and Schiff to 524 students. Elementary School #45, with a capacity for 1,115 students, would open with 445 students with an estimated growth of 454 students the next school year.
FBISD’s Special Projects Director told the board said there was no projected growth for Scanlon Oaks or Sienna Crossing, as the proposed attendance zones are almost completely built-out, with only 100-110 lots left in each zone.
“I can feel better about number one because I have seen the other options, and we really tried to do the best thing for everyone,” said Board Member Susan Hohnbaum.
“The good thing is all three of these elementary school principals are excellent,” said Board Member David Reitz. “There are some people who are going to move, but they are going to move to a good school. (Elementary school) 45 will be a good school as well.”
This is amazing growth in such a short period of time. Are the 3,000.00 apartment units in Sienna finished, or are there more to come? I would laugh out loud at such poor and abusive planning, but the other boot to this apartment over-building will fall from my part of Sugar Land soon enough. And where will the taxes come from to support our schools and these added kidos? Apartments do not pay their fare share of taxes and the the TIRZs will finish burying us all. Hello out there….taxpayers….