(From the FB Star) FBISD Over-crowding will continue as urbanization expands--

Study says Fort Bend ISD will more than double in 10 years
‘The future looks like a continuation of the past’

By Barbara Fulenwider

Anyone who doesn’t think Fort Bend County is continuing to grow should have attended the Sept. 25 Fort Bend ISD board meeting. A $48,000 demographic study was presented that says you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Future growth was the topic so the district can plan where to build new schools. What Dennis D. Harner of Harner and Associates told the board was the state’s seventh largest school district now has 67,000 students and when totally built out will have 146,000 students.

He said 73,000 of the total will be elementary students, 37,000 will be in middle schools and 36,000 students will be in high schools. What that means is the district will need twice or more campuses than the current 57 and 13 more schools opened between 2010-15.

What Harner based his projections on is the district has grown by an average of 2,087 students every year since 2001 and is becoming more urbanized every year, yet is “very different from both the greater Houston region and the state.”

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