FBISD Urbanization Underway (See this Update from SOS)-

Demographer Gives Shape & Scope To Fort Bend ISD's New Wave Of Growth

Everyone knew Fort Bend Independent School District was growing, but on Monday that growth took on shape and form, as an Austin demographer presented his sometimes-startling findings to the Board of Trustees.

With an increase of about 10,400 students over the past five years, growth in the 170-square-mile district has been palpable. But Dennis Harner of Harner & Associates showed the 64,000 students now attending FBISD represent, in a way, just the beginning.

At build-out (when there’s no more land available on which to build houses or apartments) FBISD will have 146,000 students, Harner’s projections show. Some 73,000 – more than the entire current student body – will be in elementary schools. . . (click title link above for more).

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Comment: Not good information for current or future families moving to FBC. The legislature should require school land kick-in by the larger development companies benefiting from the school districts reputations and subsequent property sales to help off-set the growth factor costs to districts when schools are located in those master-planned neighborhoods as an amenity.