001[Music] welcome everybody Tuesday March 18th 2025 we're going to start our Workshop 5:00 pm call to order Declaration of a quorum five members present we have one absent and the other not feeling well so thank you'all for being here though welcome everybody bring item C hearing of citizens we have none and then bring us to item D D1 science update I Believe Miss Gibson is going to present tonight good evening Mr horac Dr Harrier member of the board at last year's March board meeting I had the opportunity to share the process we used to select K12 science instructional materials um and today I'm here to give you a brief update on how all of that is going so far specifically tonight I'll be sharing about our progress with year one Focus areas we'll review some
002year-over-year science comparative data we'll look at student work samples and teacher feedback and I'll wrap up with some action steps related to what we've learned so far uh the the focus areas for year one of implementation are as shown um topics were moved added or removed in every single science course and as those units roll teachers are studying those teaks and making the adjustments to realign their instruction to the new state standards in order to best learn the new resources that the district purchased we asked teachers to use them as a primary resource this year um we expected that we would have to make some adjustments after year one and with our usage being so strong this year I am confident that we have sufficient data to make meaningful and targeted adjustments to our resource
003usage next school year if you recall my presentation from last spring um I mentioned that the word count for phenomena and modeling were tremendous in more this in our new science teaks and we selected resources that would help us Implement those changes um let's look at some science data first off we have our fall to winter map scores to compare this year with previous ones we'll start off with comparing winter RIT growth you guys have seen this report many times before um but just to review the blue bars on the report show the average observed growth for all csisd students in each tested grade level the yellow rhombuses indicate that nationally normed grade level projected growth uh based on where students started out the school year Mr Man mentioned this last month as well but
004I always want to point out that the scale on the Y AIS may vary from year to year so as you're looking across make sure you pay attention to those numbers on the Y AIS second grade jumped from an average of six RIT points of growth from fall to winter to nine this winter third through seventh grade are holding fairly steady with only one point of change 8th grade saw significant growth moving from an average of two points to six this winter ninth grade students in biology are also holding steady but I want to point out that our 10th grade students in biology went from negative rck growth at winter last year to a positive eight this this year the question question we're exploring on this slide is how much have our students grown in
005achievement from fall to winter this year the first two columns show the average fall versus average winter achievement percentiles the second to last column gives you your net change and the last column shows how much variability is seen between campuses overall we can note that second and eighth showed the most improvements and achievement third fifth sixth seventh in BIO are holding steady and fourth grade Jed in achievement from fall winter there are a few known variables that may have impacted our achievement percentiles the first of which is that science data for third and fourth grade may have been impacted by the fact that some of our teams got behind in the district pacing um I've been working with ic's and campus teams to help get them kind of caught up again and back on the
006pacing so that maybe impacted some of their uh percentile uh particularly in third and fourth grade our secondary science teams also had a head start on this year's instructional shifts we began implementing Chang like ADI labs and inquiry based instruction way back in 2019 but in contrast our elementary teachers who juggle multiple subjects first received PD on these changes last school year and this is the first year they really have gone all in applying these new routines and Frameworks after looking at the current Year's achievement change in fall to winter I wondered whether this year was typical this table shows a comparison of the net change in fall to winter achievement between last year and this year let's start by just comparing the achievement columns we see Improvement this year in every grade level except
007fourth again with the most dramatic changes seen in second grade and eighth grade next look at the differences in spread last year versus this year in most grade levels we're seeing more variability this year than last year I'm not surprised by this though because we're only a few months into these large shifts in our instructional practices and we still have some wobble in our implementation to work on I fully expect this to tighten up as we move forward I rearranged the columns and rows from the last slide to show cohorts um of students and their achievement percentiles so let's look at that first row it's last year's second grade students had a net change of zero in their achievement from fall to winter those second graders are now in third grade and our district average
008was a net change of negative one I'm pleased to observe that every cohort of students has improved with the exception of those first two rows again refer refering back to those those variability expectations that I had that I mentioned before this year's group of eighth grade students stands out again here as well showing 10 percentile points improvements over their winter achievement when they were in seventh grade as a curriculum coordinator it's also important for me to look at the data by instructional area this helps me measure curriculum impacts on student growth make decisions about changes or adjustments that are needed to the district curriculum and maybe surface some professional learning needs as well map divides all the topics we teach in 2 through 8th grade into three buckets physical science earth science and Life Science
009Biology also has three instructional areas on map shown in the table on the right side there on the screen to distill the information shown here I compared fall RIT points to Winter RIT points both for the current school year and last school year specifically again looking at those instructional areas the number in each box indicates how much better or worse the change in rid scores were this year compared to last year green boxes indicate instructional areas that were taught prior to the midyear map assessment Yellow Boxes are instructional areas that were still in progress but not yet completed at the time of the midyear map positive numbers indicate Improvement this year negatives are declines one possible reason why some of our green instructional areas have negative numbers is that these are the units that started
010off the school year when science teachers in the district were just getting their feet under them with all the new aspects of artiques and they were teaching the students all of these new instructional routines as well by the middle of the school year both teachers and students were becoming more accustomed to those changes and our Yellow Boxes mostly show that Improvement to illustrate student learning I'd like to share some examples of the great work csisd students are doing so far this year on the left you see a Creek View kindergarten example of a whole class consensus model the phenomena uses a wind talk to Anchor student learning around wind as moving air the right side is a phenomena observation and model in a first grade classroom also from Creek View they were describing how animals
011and people use water by making connections to a video that showed tracks in the mud near a pond in the example on the left second grade student at Rock Prairie model Sound Vibrations between two tuning Forks on the right fourth grade at College Hills used water beads to demonstrate conservation of matter here we see examples from fifth and sixth grade on the left fifth grade students at Bean Trail were studying sedimentary rock formation and erosional features using the unique formations of analou Canyon and Arizona in the sixth grade example Cypress from Cypress crew the phenomena was a video of a person writing an aquatic hoverboard and they were using this to learn about Newton's third law of motion seventh grade students at csms studied dis solution rates by observing candy canes and water in a
012variety of scenarios wellburn 8th grade used a whoosh bottle to demonstrate and model the law of conservation of mass and balancing chemical equations in these two examples from College View High School we see physics on the left where students were asked to model how collisions impact motion by using hockey players hitting a wall of the rink as their anchoring phenomena in the chemistry example students explain the purpose of the mole as they answer the question why do we quantify matter in different ways during the February 17th PD day I asked the second through High School teachers to fill out a survey to give feedback on how year one was going for them so far I asked questions to gather curriculum and resource feedback as well as Prof professional growth Reflections I also asked the question
013you see on the slide here how have your students grown related to the new te and new instructional resources across all campuses and levels these four areas were consistently mentioned improved writing skills Improvement in how well students were able to represent their thinking using models and diagrams students becoming more independent in their learning and teachers noticing the quality of class discussions improving as well a few of our teachers had standout feedback and with their permission I have their comments to share as well Emily McLaren from Spring Creek is noticing Improvement and academic vocabulary Robin hos third grade typo on the slide um from Riverbend noticed better collaboration and problem solving skills with her students Beth Hudson at Oakwood is noticing how much more students are seeing the connections between learning experiences from dayto day and
014how each day of a unit connects to the phenomena that they're studying Megan Olman at amcms is happy to see gaps closing for her students and Eden Fielder at kall has seen growth not just in single tasks of modeling but also in how students are revising those models and changing their ideas over the course of the unit this year has already been tremendous learning experience for K12 science and we're using these insights to shape future plans our resource selection has proven strong and these materials will remain the foundation of tier one instruction with extensive use this year we now have the data to refine how we use them determining where to follow as written where to adjust for district priorities and where to swap activities to better fit our needs we that is teachers students
015instructional coaches and myself have grown so much already in our understanding of threedimensional phenomena based instruction through collaboration both within teams and across the district many ideas have been shared that are helping us establish a better grip on these new routines next year we'll be able to start the school year off strong Having learned tried and tested all of the ideas we had from this school year since we started over to build new science curriculum documents with our new teaks our current documents have some areas that are not yet fully developed such as assessments I also expect to receive actionable feedback as a result of the curriculum audit which will guide our revisions for next school year in the areas of professional learning we will be exploring ways to improve the quality and quantity of
016student discourse as well as providing structures around the alignment and Scaffolding of science writing tasks I'm confident that we're going to learn as much in year two as we have in year one but for now our Focus for year three will be on refining resource use improving instructional efficiency with the new routines and building and strengthening our assessments for professional learning we will do a deep dive into the engineering design process um as that's another foundational piece of our new tis it's kind of an unexplored territory up to this point thank you for the opportunity to share any questions awesome I ask Amanda to uh showcase everything uh tonight just from a standpoint of the district made it significant uh investment in IMA materials last year to get prepared for the new teak uh the
017rollout Amanda and the icc's and the staff it was not pretty at first there was a lot of new was a lot of headaches uh but they stayed the course Amanda did a wonderful job and I just wanted to be able to show you the results of a commitment to a plan the great job that our staff did and our teachers committing to a plan and the great work by our students so it was just an opportunity to showcase and if if you got any questions she can definitely answer science questions better than me but I just want to tell you you did a wonderful job thank you now I appreciate us going back and and looking at it and I I mean I I don't know as far as data goes it sounds like
018from the learning and you know keep people doing students understanding these um phenomenon being able to model them it you know have some wonderful um examples right and it sounds like you think that is very positive and um and I can see that right in the good classroom discussions and the writing around it all wonderful wonderful um things what were some were there any of concerns from the teacher or is it just mostly that it's new and having to make that transition I mean is there yeah I think that um what I've heard from teachers especi and really our experienced ones it's really hard for them because you know it's as you teach year over-year you refine what you use you learn from having put it in front of students you tweak and adjust and
019it gets better and better and better and better every year and then when you start over with new teeks and with tis that changes changed as much as ours did um we have to kind of rely on that new resource to get us over the hump what that means functionally is that we have had very very experienced teachers tell me multiple have told me I feel like a first year teacher again and I've just reassured them like think of all that you already know about classroom management and efficiency routines in the classroom like you are not a first year teacher you're just feeling the the pinch with all of the new things that we're having to learn with the new routines and stuff and that's where I think the the chart that I showed with
020the green and yellow boxes is really encouraging because at the beginning of the year we were figuring it out still and we're starting to see some gains there in in those um as we go through those instructional areas in the school year so I really appreciate that in that answer because obviously it's been work for you but but the whole science team across all great level yeah I cannot say enough good things about about them as a whole and just the way they are leaning on each other they're planning and helping each other out in ways that they um have done well before but are even leveling that up um partially due to the roll out of PLC work they were doing in the district there's a structure there that's really helping them with that
021planning um and they're really digging in um to do that work this year so I mean they are they are the real heroes here in the presentation is our our science teachers for sure so I do have two other quickload questions on one on the data and one one was that there was some discussion you know that the teaks have moved I mean obviously they changed but that they have moved from grade to grade so much and that maybe some of the map scores um were swinging just because some kids were getting things they'd seen before and some kids were getting new things so you know I don't know just wondering your opinion on how much the that's going to affect map and and even star just because you things are at different grade levels
022now yeah well I'll say two things about that one um the map data we just have one data point right now um you know well I guess fall and then mid year so we have those two to compare but we're really looking just at the at the at one data point mid year and it's very encouraging um and so we do need to take that into consideration though as additional data points come in um which is partially why I really wanted to see that survey data from the teachers on February 17th because that gave me some really um good feedback about you know mentioning our curriculum documents or we're kind of start started over so as teachers are going through this new process and teaching with these new routines are there things that need to
023go in our curriculum documents to support that work for them um the second thing that I would say related to tis moving is that this year the star test is only going to assess those standards that were um in that grade level before so anything that moved isn't being assessed until the next school year so they have a they have a specific blueprint for star that's for this year only and then they're going to revise that and then we'll be moving forward and it will be as it will be for however long it takes to change our standards again you know hopefully many years um but we'll stick with that assessment blueprint after this school year okay good that's good to know my only other thing on the data the thing that stood out to
024me almost the most was the that the variation number that you showed the spread number I you mentioned just a little bit but I mean that's that was really big so it's like to me that some kids are really taking to this and some are not right and I don't know if you have any put on on that and how maybe you're going to adjust for that for that next year well as I've been going around visiting with teams um it's been really helpful to hear um I've been a little bit of a mythbuster too because we had training in the summer and then we had more training in August and they were drinking from the fire hose and then they got the materials and the students and they were actually doing all this stuff
025in real time and there were things that were mentioned in training that they needed to hear again that would help them with some of those efficiencies um and help them with and really the I think the most powerful thing that I keep coming back to um with this new way of teaching is the summary table because it asks students and teachers to have the conversation of how is what we learn today connect to that phenomena so that students are seeing that progression from day to day so that they're not walking into a classroom saying what are we doing today they're walking into the classroom saying what are we doing next right and so to a student it can be kind of feel kind of disconnected the teacher has that has her plan on lock or
026his plan on unlock she he and she know the calendar in their head but the students lived experience is just kind of like they show up to class what are we doing today right and so that changes that for them as well so them using the summary table and some of those other routines I think are helping with that and then just going around and visiting with teams to to be a bit of a mythbuster and be an encourager you know to help them to just say this is where you're doing really well maybe think about making an adjustment here and then again like as I've gone around we're finding spots where folks were several weeks behind in the district pacing and just again having that conversation with them getting to sit down at the
027table with them and say what's causing you guys to get behind how can I come alongside and help let's look at what's essential that's coming up and make a plan moving forward so well thanks and I just say that the looking at spread was important right that some kids are getting it really well and some kids are not so you can't not just look at at the average so thanks yeah I'm glad you mentioned the plc's because I would think this is exactly a benefit of a PLC is so these teachers could collaborate so you're seeing that throughout the district and that they're like you mentioned they feel like they're first year teachers but they can all come together and share what's working and what's not working yeah I mean I feel like that's most
028uh most effectively happening at secondary because the teachers only teach science um it's a struggle at elementary because they have so many different subjects that they have to teach so we see more spread at elementary again like I mentioned they're newer to this the whole routines of instructional all this new stuff that we're doing whereas secondary had a much long longer ramp um up to it um and then we're just continuing to work with elementary teachers because they have to spin a lot of plates and so it's going to take them a little bit longer to get their feet under them so um having that awareness of the spread and knowing where those F where there may be folks that are that are bottoming out and then going and helping with those specific teams to
029help them with that but yeah just looking at some of this data here which is very informative but I think you only I think you said looking at this that fourth grade was the only one that really kind of stood out as as struggling is that there were places where both third and fourth um when we looked at the cohorts third also showed up as a one that that dropped a bit and then fourth grade also well and from what I also picked up that I really like I guess maybe even from the teacher feedback and I wrote it down here the students are learning a whole lot to be more of a well-rounded student because not only are they learning the science piece of this which is the directive of the subject but they're
030actually learning the writing skills you know comprehension things like that which helps them throughout everything so cross-curricular huge obviously for our younger students k34 um and then obviously that can just grow there um one of the looking ahead refining s resource use and continued buildout curriculum documents that's I mean that's self-explanatory that's just the working through the wos and the and what works and what doesn't in fixing that I mean but it sounds like the the program and everything kind of like what Miss Simmons said with the the plc's and and this and that moving forward um those questions and and struggles are get are being able to be addressed sooner yes okay that's the hope sence is really NE also get to draw and I just think that's great yes thank you 100% actually
031do you mind going back to the one with the red and blue arrow arrows I just want to make sure everybody understands the or sees the the variation numbers you know um like you said cuz I didn't notice it at first the third grade until that third grade one was on there I think is that what you mean like one is low is n negative 19 and then some are plus two so the average is only the negative one but we have some areas that are that are low yeah and those are campus campus numbers yeah yeah the campus spread yeah thank you again for all your uh work on this this whole year and the whole science team thank you'all for the opportunity to visit with y'all today all right that'll bring us to
032item D2 construction update everybody can't wait for this one all right Dr hor or Dr Harrier president horak members of the board sorry I'm a little confused Dr harer looks so good wearing maroon it just threw me off um took 18 months but we got him we maroon ladies and gentlemen uh there may be hope for him yet nonetheless um excited to be here today tonight's a really big night when we get to the board M night you'll be um asked to approve a guaranteed maximum price for for Anum consolidity High School College Station High School in Rock Prairie there's been a lot of planning that has gone into that uh to lead us up to this point uh tonight with this construction I'll talk to you a little bit about the email that went
033out to the cassol families uh right before Spring Break um I know that stirred up some questions and other things of that nature but I just want to let you know that a great deal of time and effort has gone into that as well uh none of this has been made without a great deal of planning a lot of conversations and I think I've said a number of times to Dr Harrer over the last few months that paranoid people survive uh and so I'm constantly just rethinking things and asking questions and and sending in Mr Dunson office and hashing things out so uh with that I'll take you through a quick review of what we got coming up um so just for that email that went out regarding the parking spaces just want to kind
034of give you a timeline of some of the meetings that we've had this is certainly doesn't Encompass all of the meetings that we've had related to the parking situation but a great deal of planning has gone into this because it does impact 96 student parking spaces ATM Consolidated High School as well as 47 staff spaces now not 47 staff spaces that are parked in every single day uh but 47 Park parking spaces so we started this conversation back in December uh with Mrs Elder Shannon karp our director of Transportation uh Miss leafer as you know teaching and learning Austin Dunson and then our executive director of facilities Paul Buckner um from there um I have observed the parking lot I observed it every day for a week I observed it about 15 times since December
035early mornings late afternoons parking in the parking lot walking over and observing things um and what we have done is we feel like we have formulated a plan that allows us to disrupt the fewest amount of people as possible uh we certainly don't take it lightly that we're putting a lay down yard where there's 96 parking spaces where students have spent a great deal of time um painting their parking spaces um at the same time I'll show you this um really was something that was unavoidable and something we couldn't um uh res we couldn't avoid it was just one of those situations where uh to be a good Steward of taxpayer money uh we need to push forward now and I'm glad that we're able to get to the guaranteed maximum price tonight so with
036this timeline here you can see that we have done a great deal of planning a lot of people have been a part of this conversation uh with the next slide that I'm going to come into I want to go ahead and quickly say that Julie White across the street at Grace Southwood campus has been absolutely amazing to work with uh they've had relationships on again off again with Consolidated cross street sometimes we have great communication sometimes it falls through the cracks a little bit she's been amazing we are doing some things to help her with her parking lot um and now we have anou so we are now leasing their back half of for their parking lot we paid $1 and we agreed to stripe their parking lot which we did last week which is
037really big for us not just because it provides us with 185 additional parking spaces to more than cover what we're taking away with our construction but it also now allows us the opportunity if you're going to park over there you're going to have a parking permit and we'll have your vehicle registered so now we will have our parking lot attendant monitoring that lot at the same time our drug dogs when they come to campus will now be able to go into that back half of that lot because we have a lease agreement in place uh we're working right now for the rest of the school year to make sure that we get our people trained to start parking where Grace would like for them to park uh if you ever go over there we have
038between 100 and 150 kids that park there now as it is we've even had school buses parked in their lot and they've just asked that we limit our parking to the back half of the lot because they do have a number of U different events and different programs and bible studies that take place throughout the week and they want their uh patrons to be able to park up close so Julie White's been amazing to work with and we're very grateful for her time and consideration so uh this was shared out I can walk you through this um so as you well know uh the Bus Loop will be going away and that is where the construction will be starting for the expansion with the additional science labs some special education classrooms and some things related
039uh to a new weight room and some other items and so that yellow line that you see is our safety fencing and that safety fencing will come all the way down and it runs all the way up to the corner there of that oneway road because at that oneway road will they have to go 20 foot deep to tie into a line there and so we're going to take that fencing all the way up to there with this we're relocating our bus lane to the front of the school we chose the front of the school cuz we already have our sped buses that drop off in the front of the school uh we only have at Consolidated it's 12 buses I do believe maybe 13 I think it's 12 buses that drop off at Consolidated
040and in my observations if you've ever been at consol people drop off in the one way people drop off in the middle of Welsh people drop off in the middle of 2018 kids run across the street uh we have people that try to pull into the bus lane people come in and they drop off anywhere and everywhere but amazingly they don't drop off in the front of the school and so we felt like moving our buses from the bus lane back to the front of the school would really be beneficial for them it makes it a little bit of a tight squeeze for us on that one lane and so you'll see there it says no parking bus access every single one of those teachers that's going to be impacted by this they actually have
041room in the parking lot that's there that says staff parking with the blue circle the other day I went through there there was 37 people parked along their street and there was 37 parking spots available within the staff parking lot and so it's a matter of convenience for them a lot of them like to enter that side entrance it's just one of those situations with what we have going with construction U we can't have our buses taking a right out of the lane there and have on cars on both sides it'll be too tight of a fit I don't need our buses playing bumper cars um and so we're just going to move those people away uh going over here where you can see uh those 96 I don't have a laser point here I
042apologize uh the the rectangle over here closest to the left uh it says no parking construction yard lay down that is where where our Dural Tech Construction yard lay down will be placed they will start moving in their safety fencing on Saturday their Mobile Trailer will be moved in on Tuesday they will work electrical into that get that all hooked up next week and they will start construction within that parking lot um of the bus lane with the curbs and everything else getting stuff out of the way Demolition and all that next week and so that's where those 96 parking spaces are impacted I will tell you there's been a number of considerations as to why we had to have it there and not other places and one of the reasons why it's there is
043that's the closest proximity to the lay down yard for us we have met with durot tech a number of times on site we've been on site with Miss Elder uh we even had this discussion again right before spring break before we put out all of this information and with this we have actually reduced that space and tightened them as much as they can because as you well know that Alleyway leading up to the multisport Fieldhouse is where we park all of the school buses for people that attend are for our visiting teams for Tiger football games and then we wanted to make sure that we had that um access point in and out of the parking lot as well but just because it is um there's so many people that drop off on the back
044half of the Consolidated parking lot now the student parking lot highlighted there in green at the top of the screen uh that is also what we consider the band parking lot and so you can't reserve spaces there because we have a football field painted there because that is where the band practices their marching ban knows that they are going to need to be able to practice in a situation where they can't block those parking spaces there are a number of parking spaces readily available there for students uh that slot stays primarily empty and then you can see across the street I've highlighted the back half of the parking lot from Grace Bible Church they so gracefully allow us to use that's 185 parking spaces there that more than covers us and then just above that
045student parking lot above the band lot if you drive by there right now you'll notice that there is a gravel yard there now that we have installed that will be the construction lay down yard for the roofing project that is also fixed in the start now you might be looking at me like why are we starting a roofing project and an expansion project at the same time we've known for a number of years that we needed a new roof at AnMed at high school we've been working on this since I got into this position a year ago February and it we are finally at a point now where we're going to be mobilizing and getting started on that very soon but we've done a number of years three phases the last three Summers of remodels
046at ANM consolidate high school and some of those remodeled areas already have water damage so it didn't make sense for us to invest millions of dollars and to continue to remodel and expand on an cons high school without repairing the roof um it's going to be a long tedious process they're to get started on the athletic Wing over the gyms um in that area and then the cafeteria and then once we get into the summertime they will move and move as quickly as possible and the goal is to tie it all together with the new expansion um when it all comes together now that's assuming that the agid doome cooperates I thought we had a dome somebody's retracted the roof here recently so if you want to close that for our construction projects it'd be
047greatly appreciated um so with this considerations why don't we wait till the summertime well number one if we wait till the the summertime it would put us finishing this project in the middle of a semester that's not the best thing for the campus that's not the best thing for us as a district and for our students uh by getting it started now we give ourselves a chance of being completed in the summer of 2026 obviously there's a lot of factors that play into that on whether or not that timeline is going to work it is an aggressive timeline but it's what we're pushing to do the general condition costs once we lock in this GMP tonight we start paying General condition costs we're locked in in March we don't want to pay General condition cost
048General condition cost through April and May inflationary costs had we waited and done one project at a time there is a number of things that are being done with this project that are outside the scope that we not initially in the scope that we've been able to put in as alternates and get accepted because we've been so aggressive in getting this done we also avoid the inflationary cost and who really knows what's fixing to happen with the tariffs battles tariff battles that seem to be ongoing if you read KBTX yesterday they were talking about Lumber costs and different things going on Lumber is not really going to impact Us in this project but it can certainly impact us with HVAC and some of our mechanical systems because it seems like anything is up for grabs
049right now when it comes to tariffs why not on a grass field had we gone on the grass field that is to the left there the practice football field that's right there um beside the multisport Fieldhouse we would have had construction equipment heavy steel and various things trying to navigate through a student parking lot with 96 students that wasn't the safest thing for our students that wasn't the safest thing um for the gentlemen that are going to be working on the construction project and so we that that was not a good option people have asked why didn't we go across the street at the tennis courts have you tried to cross Welsh in the mornings or in the afternoons again not the safest thing this and in the city wasn't real big on the idea
050of us having construction craft traffic back and forth across street nor do they want the debris or the trash that could potentially come from projects on the street and so the safest place for us was the closest proximity and that is that lay down yard there um additional scope so at consolid we put in a number of alternates that we were able to get in for example Miss Elder has requested since this project started three years ago with all of the remodel that the lockers be removed from City High School we're now able to remove the lockers from anity high school if you've been in the district we have the nice gray tile that's in that fouryear area that hits the wall it looks really good and then it runs into and it abruptly stops
051and it's the tile from I think when Mr hak was back at at an high school so you know that's been from the 80s uh it's time for us to scrape that and get that clean apologies sir um and then the biggest piece is the completion date yeah yeah then the completion date piece for us we really are trying to push hard to have this finished in the summer so that way we have it for an entire school year if you finish it in the middle of a semester which some of our projects unfortunately may be that way if we finish in the middle of a sem semester it's going to be harder for us to utilize that space it impacts Master schedules it's a lot more work on the campus and it doesn't allow
052was to take full advantage of it and so our aggressiveness with this timeline is the reason why we are where we are at and the reason why we haven't waited until the summertime because we are trying to absolutely push to get this done so we're not wasting our money or the taxpayers money so with amm that wasm high school so tonight you'll approve the guaranteed maximum price they're going to mobilize as I said on March we will have permits ready to go for demo and everything excuse me and demo and everything else and we will be rocking and rolling U pushing hard with an expect expected completion date summer of 2026 uh going backwards so College Station High School uh similar situation upcoming at College Station high school you'll be approving that guaranteed maximum price
053along with Rock Prairie tonight I don't have anything to tell you a whole lot about Rock Prairie this evening other than the fact you're approving the GMP for Rock Prairie with College Station high school because that allowed us to get more competitive bids for Rock Prairie which helped us tremendously in getting competitive prices it was a little bit of a last minute hel and it worked tremendously and we're very excited at what it's led to for that process so with college stes high school again GMP tonight pay attention we're looking to mobilize there on April the 1st now that expected completion is October the 20 October of 2026 but that takes us from a two-year project down to an 18-month project potentially we are pushing as hard as we can to get that one done
054College Station High School while it's easier in the sense of finding a lay down yard that doesn't impact a lot of people it's harder in the sense that that we are expanding off four corners of that building and so it's a greater impact It's a larger It's a larger site and it makes it much more difficult and challenging for us so again yellow you'll see the safety fencing uh we met on site today with the Fire Marshall and one of the city planners they've uh pointed out a couple of things that they want us to do it's not an issue uh we will be able to get that taken care of right away as far as our egress is concerned for some of these projects but you'll see the students will have to enter in
055through the front half of the building or the back half of the building uh where the cafeteria doors are if you've ever been to College Station High School in the morning a number of kids are entering through the back half of the school because they park in the parking lot they go to the Fieldhouse or they have business on this side and then they come in the back doors and so uh we're impacting very little parking at this campus we met on site a number of times with Mr Grimes we initially wanted to really take away that entrance that you see there to the left uh but we've agreed for his thoroughfare that they can come in circle in drop off come out um if it becomes a problem we we'll see we'll talk about
056it at the end of the semester uh and maybe evaluate but we have limited we've taken away very few parking spaces and you can see there are a number of empty parking spaces there available uh reason why we're able to avoid having to impact this campus so much is because of all the green space that you see will be our lay down yards for College Station High School can I just ask on that one so B whenever there's this yellow fence um that will will there'll be any in and out of those fences for staff or students or only for the workers I mean what the yellow fences what kind of what does that mean exactly that's safety fencing so that's your 6ot tall safety fencing uh it won't have wind screens on it but
057it'll be all interlocked and tied together the only In-N-Out on a daily basis will be for the contractors and our superintendent that is working the job there the other the we will have the ability to um have them an emergency erress should they need it um but that will that's a situation where that is the only reason why anybody should be in those yards what we'll be doing over the weekends when we start this project is we'll actually be building partition walls um to block off so that way our contractors and our um our people that are working on the site do not have interaction with the students so we'll be doing that after hours and we'll be doing that on the weekend so that way we can make sure that we're putting those things
058in place to keep students away from our contractors like in in the in within the building yes because we're going to be ripping off the end of end ends of the building so um March we're getting ready consol expansion roof replacement we're currently doing Spring Creek roof repairs uh Spring Creek has leaked since the day it opened and so we've been working on that for quite some time we've got some warranty that's going into that as well we've met with a number of different with our consultant from Armco and a number of other people we feel really confident about the plan that's in place there they're going to be doing all of that work um now they started walking the campus and building last week and they're doing it after hours not to disturb the
059campus within April we'll be starting our cshs expansion pushing as hard as we can uh to get that done May we'll start uh the rock prey remodel which will be a two summer project we'll also will be doing bathrooms one at a time uh with two people working those projects throughout the school year kind of like you see at an airport uh type situation and then in May more is coming we'll get the GMP for our stadiums for the Consol Fieldhouse for the cshs PRX boox repairs some of the concrete heaving and the other things that are going into all of that and then in May and June we'll be starting the baseball and softball fields and then we'll be doing CTE Phase 2 you'll get that GMP and we'll kick that project off so
060essentially every single project that was within the two bonds that just recently passed with the exception of a potential buying a new building and remodeling this central office and uh scoping it out for a central office we have got every single project ready to get started um as Dr Harrer when we got it he said go don't let don't don't waste their time don't waste their money get the project started and here we are now we're at the pro we're at the time where we're about to get project started and it's going to be really busy uh for the next couple years um and it's going to be there's going to be some un discomfort in the growth but at the same time instead of stretching it out one project at a time and doing
061it little by little uh we're going to get it all done and push as hard as we can to get it as done as quickly as possible so we can be good stewards of our taxpayers money and so our kids can utilize these new facilities that are going to be amazing questions I just want to say I really appreciate y'all hitting the ground running um as someone whose kids impacted and has to fight for a parking spot um it's all going to be okay it it's it's what we should be doing and that is trying to make the dollar go as far as possible and um I'm excited to see all the projects and um and just to go on record I was at consol in the 80s and I didn't have a painted parking
062spot and I'm okay and I know I'm probably G to make some parents mad by saying that that are super upset but um if this is the biggest hurdle that they have to face they're going to be okay they there's plenty of parking over there I managed to find a parking spot every day well I will I appreciate that thank you very much and and it wasn't like I said it wasn't a decision that we made lightly uh we talked about it a lot we considered a lot of different things poor Mr Dunson um I was in his office a lot just bouncing things off of him constantly trying to get this figured out I will tell you you know with baseball and softball coming that's more construction with the Fieldhouse coming and the stadiums
063coming that's more construction we got we got two lay down yards now currently across the street we're going to have another one on this side of the street it's going to be awful for a couple years but consol has needed this for a really really really long time and I'm excited that we're able to deliver on these things and by pushing so aggressively we're able to deliver more for them than what was in the original scope of the project and I think that's really really big for them I'm I'm very glad you went through it all and and like you said it's going to be hard I mean I think that and and is something we all need to realize right and certainly the folks around consol but just like you said it is definitely
064needed and it's over overdue and right even though part of me is like oh my gosh are you been asleep for two years right no you're not and it's going to it's going to be you know hard for many reasons just like like you said Heather that being able your your reasons for the financial side of of getting this started are so I I believe so real I mean obviously there's always some unknown but it's sure seems like there's there's definitely going to be unknowns and there's definitely going to be curveballs and things that come up but once we lock in these gmps we're going to be in a really good place and and we we just need to get started we need to get started I was I felt really good about all the
065parking until you said that there's already 150 people parking at gracewood and then I was like how are we going to move more that was the only thing that we're going to be fine out of those 150 people that is an excessive day I've been over there numerous times I went through there yesterday there was 87 people parked over there however out of those 87 um I talked to Julie she felt like roughly 30 of those were probably college students or people that were parking there that were going in um into their Church facilities they've also got people that have been parking in their parking lot from across the street they're going to work with us um they just ask that we keep our people parking as far away from the building as possible now
066they've given us 185 spaces if it turns out that we need a little bit more going into that next phase which he calls Lot C we'll be fine uh but there's a lot of spaces that are readily available in the band parking lot uh the biggest piece right now why you have so many people that are parking over there that are students is they don't have to pay for a parking permit I've been there I've watched it not a single parking permit in that parking lot and then you've got kids that are you know figured out if they park over there they might be able to go get them Chick-fil-A for lunch you know I've observed a lot of things over the last few weeks so I agree lets it lets none of them offered
067me launch but you know it's nonetheless and it's good that you yeah that were able to get those marked spaces and have that available we painted their spaces for them last week every single one in the parking lot and other thing I'd say I know you've had a lot of conversation and I appreciate you being the things I've heard is you're very um willing to talk to everybody about this and and help work through it all so that's it impacts a lot of people and it's no decisions made lightly we we try to consider everything that we can but the biggest driving force I I've heard you say it before over the years is we have to be good stewards of taxpayer money and in fact I've heard you say we have to be better
068stewards of taxpayer money and that's what we're trying to do right now by getting these projects started my mom's a CPA I I grew up with a CPA in my life like I and this I live here I have four kids I've got skin in the game like I pay taxes here too like I want to make sure that we get every single thing out of the dollar that we can we're going to fight for every penny and we're going to make sure that we deliver projects that take care of our district we're csisd and we want to make sure that people know that we take great pride in the projects that we're trying to deliver exactly and keep our students safe throughout all this too so you pointed out a lot of those things
069you're doing as well do we still have I feel like at one point on uh the district website we had presentations about what we were actually going to do at both the high schools in terms of what was going to be added and those kind of things are those still up on the website yes ma'am um I would just I just bring that up because I had questions today from just a friend about well wait wait you're actually adding on to consol like what's going on and so I could explain and that's not the scope of this presentation but if we have people out there that are still wondering exactly what are we doing go take a look at those presentations because there's a lot of great things it'll be archived under the bond that
070it was approved in and then as we get schematics and drawings which we are getting together for all the different projects then Austin and his team will start putting that out so you can kind of see the project come to life versus looking at science Wing addition to consol where here's renderings of what it's going to look like did I miss something where we're not allowed to park on new wasis Street anymore cuz I had an in tag and I knew how to parallel park so I parked there is that not allowed anymore no I'm I'm serious like I I really don't know because there still can be some spots where you can park on new acis court they have posted some signs no parking stoping standing I didn't know um and so that just
071really comes down to enforcement but you can park in some areas of new Asis but a lot of it has got those signs posted now for no parking stopping or standing loading I don't remember exactly what it say I just didn't know on that um and you know you mentioned awul you mentioned hard you know this and that y'all I mean it's just a change in your routine and if we look at it that way it's it's The Growing Pains of of what we're doing and and I get it it's frustrating but it's just a change in the routine and it becomes a new routine and then you'll go back to your old routine and look we're going to be observing um I'll be in the parking lot a lot I'll be in the parking
072lot at at Southwood Valley or Southwood great Bible campus next week uh with our parking lot attendant um trying to make sure that he's set up for success and everything else we're going to be visibly present and if I mean we're on job sites every single day if if we need to Pivot and make an adjustment we will uh most important thing for us right now is keeping our students safe next thing after that is getting these projects underway and and and getting started and moving the ball forward so we're not wasting time or money and just to all my consoled parking friends I mean I do wish we I mean there could have been a better solution for the kids who actually paid for Reserve spots but I trust that you have real you
073and the team and everybody involved have gone through all of the options and this is we met with Jen white and Sarah wigs on numerous andw and Gwen Jen white the PTO president and I have walked the parking lot together three separate times Mr Buckner has walked it with us as well uh she's had meetings with Mrs Elder we've had meetings with Mrs Elder um because you know it's an impact for the for the next couple years but it's a situation where when you really start to think about it I I don't know what else you can do because you're not going to paint parking spaces in the church parking lot you can't paint on the band parking lot and it's a situation where for the safety of the campus that was the most secure
074location for that lay down yard and we've already made that lay down yard smaller than what they wanted to like they may have to expand over the summertime and then shrink back down whenever the school year comes back in uh to session thank you folks howy and Dr har cder Mr horic Board of Trustees I would like to introduce you to Paul cash he's with Zander and he's going to be presenting our demographic update all right y'all see I needed somebody to sit with me I didn't get I'm not allowed to sit by myself and so we'll see how that works out uh but uh I didn't bring my ruler though that's all right um maybe maybe we'll get through it but uh Mr HK Dr har cder trustees thanks for letting you uh for
075having me I am Paul cash with zond demographics and so we'll go through our demographic report pretty quickly if you have questions either during or after then certainly we can ask questions oh I've got the clicker here all right so just some fun facts about College Station ISD uh you guys are 102 square miles uh you median age uh this is kind of funny I laughed when I went through this information because obviously there's uh some some schools that are close to you guys that impact uh some of your de demographics in regard to census data and this is just some sens census data but the median age is 24 median household income $57,000 and then what I like to talk about down in the bottom is your uh uh population by generation you guys
076have 8.6 or Baby Boomers uh 10.7% of your population or gen extras and then you have 21% you know Mill Millennials get beat up pretty good but you have 21% that are millennials and then shocker of shockers your gen zers the kids that are aged 9 to 26 uh make up 49% of your area and so uh just based on information from the Census so uh one of the measures that we use to talk about uh economic strength of strength of a community is the unemployment rate uh you can see here that you guys have gone up slightly brazis County and the college station Brian area from 2.7 to 3 and then 2.6 3.1 but those are uh extremely low and so anything uh for or under is really considered to still be fully employed
077and so the economic conditions here in the area remain strong when we look at the housing market uh you can see on the on the the graphic on the right uh that sales are down in the area when you compare last year to this year I mean 22 uh 2223 to 2324 um and the reason is obvious if you raise the average price and you raise the median price of homes then sales aren't going to you're not going to have as many sales and then the then the other aspect of that is when you don't sell as many housing houses then you have more listings and you have more inventory and so that does show that um that sale prices have gone up and housing sales have slowed and we'll talk about that a little
078bit more uh this right here does talk about the home sales uh and this is just from the for the first semester this is all based on school year data and so you can see here that over the last three years housing CES have gone down uh right now in the first half of the school year uh closed on about 509 homes the expectation is that'll probably end at about 1,200 but with interest rates the way they are and um you know as we mentioned in the last slide sales have have slowed across the district uh when we look at the U prices of homes uh this is a extremely interesting slide um is that the average the existing home price uh a year ago was pretty much equal to the average new home price
079but this school year uh it has it surpassed it and so our records show that the average new home price at this time is is gone down slightly it's just under $400,000 but the average existing home price has increased to to $460,000 and so that's kind of an odd phenomena and it just it just goes to show you that you know the new home growth is not there and so people are finding existing homes so talking about new hom home growth um currently there are 26 active building subdivisions in the district there are six future subdivisions and you can see on this map that most of the growth is in the Southeastern part of the district if you kind of put a quadrant there it's over in the in the Pebble Creek and the Forest
080Ridge Elementary attendance zones is where where we are seeing the most activity so I want to briefly go over a few of those um Southern point is a subdivision active subdivision in the Pebble Creek Elementary attendance Zone it it has over 2,000 total Lots 16 600 of those are occupied and so right about a little bit over a third or under a third of those 11 are under construction and it still has 1420 Lots but one of the things I want to look at that I'm going to emphasize in in some of these subdivisions is the student yield there uh this last the current school year that yield is 9 397 so here's what that means for every 10 occupied homes there's approximately four students that come from from those homes now something that's unusual
081is typically as a subdivision expands the student yield has a tendency to go up but you can see here that over the past year the student yield has actually dropped a little bit uh from last year to this year the next we want to look at is green prairies green Prairie Reserve it is it is a active subdivision in the green Prairie Greens Prairie Elementary Zone it has 639 total Lots 176 of those are occupied uh 55 of those are are ready for building now and still have you know almost half of that or over half of that are still future Lots uh the price point on this subdivision is uh 700,000 plus and so you can see the satellite image on the right that just came from December um the how the development's going
082and at the roads and everything that are you know in there because you have you know 170 people 75 people living there now so when you look at Midtown reserve the next one uh it's in the Southwood Valley Elementary Zone 967 total Lots uh 2/3 uh 400 of those are occupied but it still has 500 future lots and so the price point on that is about 220,000 uh they are it's a DR Horton development and they are um bu producing 70 to 80 homes a year and the student yield for that uh you can see actually this one has increased and and I'm just guessing it has to do a little bit with the price point of the homes uh the student yield there is is. 272 or 2.7 students for every 10 occupied homes
083Mission Ranch is a subdivision in the river Riverbend Elementary School Zone 538 total Lots 363 of those are occupied and so um 98 still has almost 100 of those in Futures and you can see here 350,000 price point and the student yield did drop a little but it's still uh 045 or four point four and a half students what we look is kind of the average of student yield for single family homes is usually somewhere between 04 and6 and so just kind of tell you these are this kind of in the average the urban uh at College Station 123 Lots 79 of those are Futures and a price point of about 350,000 there uh a future persing Place uh it is in the Riverbend Elementary attendance Zone and 103 Futures there and you can see
084on the right satellite image that they're just beginning to to break ground uh clearing ground for there no roads or anything in that that we have that we showed in December Arrowhead Village uh it is in the Forest Ridge Elementary Zone 29 total future Lots there and Road workor had started in December so this slide here uh just shows um that how multif family is is the market of multif family um it's strong here just because there's so many college students that the housing market the the multif family the apartments stay strong I will tell you in other school districts that I work with the apartments that don't have colleges in them uh the apartment industry has really struggled over the last year uh because they keep building them and they don't have enough residents
085and so uh but this is this is just pretty average that it always is for you guys when we look at the multif family developments that are going on in the district there are 967 multif family units that are near completion in the district you can see the color there that are under construction that are purple and then the light blue or Futures and just 320 of those uh future multif family units that are impacting College Station ISD so when you look at those yields it's interesting to look at yields of uh of multif family this map shows you the different yields um from Green all the way to red and you do see some of those multifamilies that that are red but but basically um College Station I averages about 0.122 students for all
086of the multifam so if you average that you get about 1.2 students for every 10 units um however manufacturer home yields which are typically higher than multif family are at. 39 so almost four students for each uh manufactured home that you have in the district and then the red outlined um represent student housing and so you get as you would expect very very little yield out of the student H student housing developments so where are the students 83% of all the students um reside within the City of College Station and then you can also see here that 85% of that was 83% sorry I may have said 85 83% of all the students districtwide are west of um Highway 6 and so obviously Southwood Valley and Pebble Creek and some of those new developments there
087that are that are east of U of six um we'll change that a little bit but but predominantly west of Highway 6 this slide here the purple represents newcomers that are those are students that are new to cons uh uh College Station ISD and then the turquoise line or the levers those are students that leave um the purple are new students and the um green are students that leave in the in a given year you can see this year you guys are down 25 that you've had 25 more students leave than you have students new students into the district but what's important is to show uh how last year that was minus 170 and so there is a lot more balance this year in regard to students that new students entering the district and students
088leaving the district um this is a birth rate versus kindergarten enrollment what we use this for is is obviously uh we look at U County uh births and then five years later how many students are attending schools and that ratio seems to be right around Point 76% uh in a couple of years we are projecting it to be about 82% but but we really it continues to mirror kindergarten attendance seems to mirror the birth rates so let's talk about student attendance for a little bit this year the total enrollment did decrease by 48 students um 31 of those um so one reason to that and I and I don't have a pointer here but if you look at the 12th grade last year you had 983 students that were 12 seniors that we assume graduated
089and then if you go over to the 2425 and look at the kindergarten you only had 952 kindergarteners so you have 31 students before anybody even starts moving in or leaving the district and so that's almost a wash when when you're talking about 48 students uh down from last year um the largest group the largest grades are ninth and 10th grade and and that's pretty pretty common you can see diagonally uh if you go back to 22 2021 that seventh grade group was the largest they remained one of the top two in eighth grade they remain one of the top two in ninth grade and last year's 10th graders it's been a large group that's gone through your District um as as a cohort they they've gone through been pretty large the whole time so
090let's talk about forecast for a little bit the forecast shows that the decrease is going to the district is going to decrease slightly in the next few years um which is pretty common from what we're seeing with interest rates remaining where they are and new home sales uh still being slow that that's impacting the total growth um we are projecting the district would be over 14,500 by the year 3233 so how's that impact in each individual campus you can see here uh Pebble Creek um Southwood Valley and Spring Creek are all currently at 110% capacity and they're projected to remain over 110% capacity when we look at our intermediate schools uh do have pcan Trail that's that's approaching capacity um within 85% now but still will remain under capacity as we're projecting and then Oakwood
091Intermediate in 2930 will get to that 85% threshold of capacity we look at our middle schools wellborne middle uh is uh at 85% capacity and it but it seems that it's going to stay under capacity uh Anum Consolidated and College Station High both are really at or around capacity and they and they kind of stay that way so that's um College Station is is above capacity by more than 110% but it it kind of levels out so key takeaways um district has 26 active subdivisions with approximately 650 lots that are available for building at this time uh 3100 Lots in the planning stage throughout the district and and projected to be enrollment for the district more than 14,600 in 3435 which is 10 years from now questions well I guess maybe not for you but
092for I mean this the high school capacity is going to change right corre with each uh new addition each High School would uh gain capacity for approximately 700 students at each so some of that yellow on there there's PL plenty in correct yeah on both of those and you know high and you guys know this but High School numbers um aren't aren it's not as tight in a high school that's at capacity than it is in elementary that's at capacity capacity cuz usually not all your kids are in the building at the same time you know you have an athletic period you have you know 250 kids that aren't walk in the halls and so capacities can deal with a little bit but buildings do start paying the price if if you stay at or
093above capacity for too long can you go back to 20 real quickly the one with I just want to make sure I understood that the you said that no no no sorry um the uh well maybe on what's this the birth rate compared to yes ma'am sorry I just what you said on that so ratio is wrong button can't remember what you said so so what we do is we look at birth rate data from five years ago I mean so obviously these kindergart kindergarten students um were born five years ago and so really you can see from the graph there um that we take the bottom is kindergarten enrollment and the one above is the district births and so we stay pretty consistent with that you can see that it dipped a little bit
094in 2020 um 2020 school year that the burst and the kindergarten enrollment didn't match because of covid uh but you can see there that the district births remain fairly fairly flat um but they did see an uptick last year in 2023 and then so we use that data to make projections 5 years out U of what we anticipate the kindergarten enrollment is going to be so right now your kindergarten enrollment was 952 and we see that dip a little bit next year but then increased to 988 993 and 989 over the years after that okay Paul I think the numbers in the uh I just caught this during your presentation the numbers in the chart on the right are reversed Kinder enrollment should be where District births are and the numbers would be accurate I
095think they got you're correct you're correct sorry about that it's okay yeah just move table mislabeled correct that's it just flip-flop them they'll be accurate but the ratios are accurate right yeah the numbers are accurate just the columns just need to be reversed yeah I yeah thank you Dr arrer because you would mention you know you said that enrollment is generally flat we have a few dips are projected to be and you said you thought a lot of that is the same Trend that people are not because the housing prices is that the main driver I mean this is not we've got a little bit more of a gap than we used to but it's looks like it's going to be con consistent I mean some of the numbers used to be in the 80s
096percent you know but now right right but right but at least in the last recently they've been just looking at the trends there uh you know obviously with the um we do use this for for our kindergarten projections uh and kindergarten projections are a big part of you know if you have a big kindergarten class like I showed you with that seventh grade class that five years ago when you have a big kindergarten class it really impacts the whole District because it's going to impact them for 12 12 years and so uh but but it is a little uh not you know as high with the ratio that we've been using and then of course the housing market uh the more homes that are sold the more families that are coming in the more likelihood
097that you're going to have students in those homes and so when fewer homes are sold a lot of times what's happened in this recent is is projections that had been done a couple of years ago it just kind of moved everybody back a year because not as many homes is sold on the same rate that they did before that's something that's seen throughout the state of Texas right now when you look at percentage of births to kindergarteners we've seen a dip and that's that's just the entire state right now I think when you break it down the real estate piece comes into play because I mean we can talk about col station housing and the sales prices and things like that um but I think you do have to bring in the interest rate piece
098of it because the 1.52% interest rate that we had a few years back is now eight and N maybe six or seven now um and and folks are just making decisions based on a lot of that and spending power and things like that um where College Station if I recall tendency wise Home Market uh tend to be a little inflated compared to other markets um that's just the nature of the Beast that that college station is um but but we knew this from other reports in the past that it was going to level out like this um so this this isn't a shock to me um having served on the board but um I mean we've got a whole lot of other factors these days that we didn't know we would have this year and
099going forward so um while these are great forecasts and and this and that uh the the future is yet to be unknown for us and and that's just the facts of life and and we'll deal with it but I think I think the real estate market has a has a big driver of our district just in general always has been uh which is a good problem to have um but it's it's also one of those detriments that we just as as single families and things like that um cuz I as you were going through the uh subdivisions and things I was writing down price point and interest rates a problem here affordability here this one is Affordable this one's too far south they don't want to live that far outside of colge station I mean
100there's a whole lot of variables so um just do do process on this we'll just have to continue to watch see what happens so I'm going to bring up one of the elephants in the room I think but uh um yeah um I totally understand when we're talking about home sales new people moving in but we've got people who' have lived here a long time they're where they are they're maybe not moving around um and when I when I see that chart that has the birth rate in the kindergarten enrollment and it seems to widen at least a little bit and you make the comment that's across the state um I think we can probably think of some other reasons why that might be happening and just alternate choices that people are making for education
101so I am curious just as this is something that you do a lot do you are you seeing any kind of trend where people are choosing other choices for their kids and then maybe those those come back to public school as they enter you know secondary education well we really see that more at Middle School than we do do typically at kindergarten but but we are seeing it impacting kindergarten more recently than it has in the past you know people you know nobody wants to send their kid to Junior High and um because everybody's nervous about something so they choose Alternatives and then they typically come back in in at the high school so so that does happen a lot um we don't really chart that uh where you can see that is kind of
102with your levers and your uh newcomers uh is that people that are choosing to to leave this last year you've had you know almost equal number that have chosen to to to come to a college state station ISD um we don't we don't have that broken down by by grade level and one of the slides that we don't have here that is um you know it's it's across the state of Texas in regard to enrollment um you know right after covid there was like a 35,000 student increase uh two years ago was like a 72,000 uh student increase and this last year it was only 12,000 so um people people are making different choices and it's not and so that's a you know when you talk I mean the population of Texas is not shrinking
103and then when you show that the enrollment in public schools goes from 70 incre it's still an increase but an increase of 72,000 to 13,000 um they're making other choices another question my mind just trying to think of um how do we take into account like maybe it's on these newcom and levers I I think we hear there's a lot of retirement folks that come to this community and so like looking at um the fact that maybe the the existing properties not these new things but are the student yields changing on those prop those properties um I know is that and again those might be for those aren't I they're not for new students entering the district but maybe some are some are moving here at middle at middle grade ages not kindergarteners I mean
104when I say new new students I mean is that factor in here that because I I do believe that's a a belief that there's more uh people moving here without children a lot of retire retirees I don't know we we don't track that specifically our Focus really is on new home development and home sales I will tell you as a school administrator and Dr harer can tell you this but as neighborhoods uh get old older uh then um you do have people I mean that they had their kids here they all went to school here and then they don't leave and so the availability does get less in established uh older neighborhoods yeah I think that's some of it too and maybe I mean I think that's what affecting some of the home prices too
105in some of well I think what the home prices tell you is uh people are coming here and there there's no no new homes and so they're moving to the existing homes and then you know it's a if if you can get what you can get and the prices have increased that I think that's what tells me is that sharp increase of existing home prices going up means that people are moving here and they're forced to buy existing homes instead of new homes anything else thank you very much appreciate you thank you guys well are we sorry I do have a question for us what are we going to do about I mean so the yellow discussion I mean I know you're kind of saying we don't know but um is this what's our plan
106to to talk about that and maybe I'm maybe nothing's too bad right is there what's the what yellow discussion of your this going back to this I mean do we have any real capacity issues just that's yeah we've got capacity issues at elementary intermediate and Middle School level Y and so our plan uh more than likely will be at the June meeting uh we will ask zand to come back uh we will talk about the campuses we have concerns with and then show you a glimpse at what potentially rezoning would look like Elementary intermediate and Middle School level in particular areas yeah he identified the three campuses at Southwood Valley Pebble Creek and Spring Creek or concern at the elementary level uh intermediate level span Trail and wellburn a concern currently right now at the
107middle school level and so our plan would be we would uh show you guys the information we would release that publicly to get input from community and parents what that looks like bring the feedback back see if we make any adjustments show you that again put that back out again for feedback and then my penciled in uh plan would be that you guys would approve the rezoning for 26 27 in November that way we need enough time uh to potentially Granda in students at their existing campus uh students that want to move that we have time to communicate with parents because then we've got to figure out Staffing and who needs to potentially add students and what that looks like and add teachers so that's the tentative schedule right now sooner rather than later we've
108got to have enough time to plan for 26 27 so doing that in the spring of 26 does not give us enough time I've got to have when we make Staffing decisions and give contracts in April of 26 um I've got to know approximately how many kids are going to be moved and what that looks like so we can advertise positions if we need to add some and our parents need to know too the families need to know I think it's so important that we started as early as possible so that's to look forward to that's the anticipated date yep all right that'll brings to item e adjourn