Fort Bend ISD is now accepting applications for K-12 out-of-district students to attend school at any open campus in the district.
Applicants must meet certain admission requirements and provide their own transportation.
Interested families can apply now through July 13.
For complete application information, a list of campuses that are open to new students, and highlights of the district’s benefits and accomplishments, visit the FBISD website at www.fortbendisd.com and click on the “Bring a Friend to Fort Bend” link, or call 281-634-1729.
The first day of school in Fort Bend ISD is Monday, August 22.
My understanding is that since FBISD gets the state reimbursment money instead of the student’s home ISD, FBISD comes out ahead on the deal. It allows them to pick up a significant revenue stream that they would not otherwise be entitled to receive. Students taking advantage of the program have to provide their own transportation to the school – so FBISD is not out any extra for school buses.
There is a way to get the “Lamar Zone” of FM359 rezoned to FBISD, according to the TEA all you have to do is create a petition to change the zoning based on “Neighborhood Schools” and if you get a majority signing then you can present this to both School Boards for approval.
Here is the following link. Look at Question #8
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/SDL/SDLfaq.html#f8
As a resident of Pecan Grove that is zoned for LCISD I would be sign a petition to be deannexed from LCISD and annexed by FBISD. This would be a benefit to Pecan Grove because all of the kids would go to the same schools instead of the way they are currently split.
This is very interesting. If those Lamar CISD parents who live in the FM-359 area and who in 2009 were unfairly rezoned to what the Houston Chronicle ranks as the 954th worst high school in the state (out of 1140 some high schools) take notice of this, I expect quite a few new students at Fort Bend’s Travis high school next month.
Travis is an “open” campus according to FBISD and has room available. I think that switching your child from a school ranked in the bottom 20% statewide to a school ranked in the upper 20% just might send a message to the folks at Lamar CISD. Even more so, when Lamar doesn’t get the state reimbursement money for the child because that money follows the student to FBISD.
For the 359 community, the FBISD schools are much closer (my kids could walk easily to the new Jim Bowie middle school on Plantation at Harlem). Of course, we made the proximity argument during the 2009 rezoning but it was ignored by Lamar’s administration and trustees. Perhaps loosing a good amount of that state reimbursement money might start to change their thinking?
I wonder if there isn’t some way that the 359 community could request that FBISD just annex us out of Lamar?
There is a way to get the “Lamar Zone” of FM359 rezoned to FBISD, according to the TEA all you have to do is create a petition to change the zoning based on “Neighborhood Schools” and if you get a majority signing then you can present this to both School Boards for approval.
Here is the following link. Look at Question #8
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/SDL/SDLfaq.html#f8
So who is going to pay for these out of district students? Are the Fort Bend residents going to be paying for them with our property tax dollars? How did this get passed without any public outcry?
They get special funding from the state for them up to a certain number – 200?
By the way, I’ve heard we’ve already recruited, er, ENROLLED two valedictorian’s from Spring Branch and one from LCISD. That should put us pretty high in the early recruiting, er, ENROLLMENT rankings….