Crowley ISD Boardroom Rewind

Trustees received updates on many of the voter-approved projects included in the Bond 2023 package. These new schools, security enhancements and renovations across the district are scheduled to be completed over the next four years with no tax rate increase.

Tentative Bond Project Timeline:

2024

• New Elementary School No. 16 Opens (funded by 2007 bond)
  
• Security Fencing for Elementary Playgrounds
  
• Roof Replacement at H.F. Stevens Middle School
  
• District-wide facility, safety and security improvements

2025

• New Elementary School No. 17 Opens
  
• District-wide facility, safety and security improvements
  

2026

• New Track & Field Complex Opens (phase 1)
  
• Expansions/Renovations:
• Deer Creek Elementary
• Meadowcreek Elementary
• Sycamore Elementary
• Crowley Ninth Grade
• North Crowley Ninth Grade
• North Crowley High School

2027

• New Crowley High School Opens
  
• New Middle School No. 5 Opens
  
• Inclusive Outdoor Learning Center (partnership with the city of Crowley)
• Indoor Track Opens
  
• District-wide facility, safety and security improvements
  

Renderings above show an overview of Elementary No. 16 and an amphitheater area.

Elementary No. 16, located in the Karis neighborhood off Industrial Boulevard in Crowley, will house students enrolled in the Crowley Montessori Academy as well as other special programs . It will be constructed in two phases. Phase 1 will have a capacity for 480 students, and Phase 2 will add capacity for an additional 200 students. It will open in the fall of 2024.

Renderings above show an upper level overlooking the learning stairs and the campus library.

Elementary No. 17, which will be located in the Bridges neighborhood west of Richard Allie Middle School, is scheduled to open in the fall of 2025. It is a prototype of the June W. Davis Elementary School that opened in fall of 2019.

Highlights include:

• 97,324 square feet

• 40 classrooms

• Multiple collaborative spaces

• Makerspace

• Geothermal heating/cooling system

• Natural lighting for each classroom

The new Crowley High School is set to open in 2027. It will be located at the same site as the current CHS, with construction to occur in phases while students continue attending the current building.

The new CHS building will be significantly larger than the current school, increasing from 295,000 square feet now to 628,000 square feet when complete.

Trustees also heard updates on other projects in Bond 2023, including:

• Middle School No. 5
  
• Indoor/Outdoor Track & Field
  
• Additions and renovations at North Crowley High School, North Crowley Ninth Grade, Crowley Ninth Grade as well as Deer Creek, Meadowcreek and Sycamore elementary schools
  
• Security fencing around campuses

View the full Construction Updates presentation.

Construction Manager at Risk

Also at Thursday's meeting, trustees approved a Construction Manager at Risk construction delivery method for the Indoor/Outdoor Track and Field and Middle School No. 5. This method also has been approved for Elementary No. 16, Elementary No. 17 and the new Crowley High School. The method has been used for the past 15 years.

It transfers the risk of project cost overruns from the school district to the contractor. The CMAR also presents a Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) and is engaged much earlier in the design process.

Crowley ISD is growing, and to address that growth, the district is building new schools and will need to look at redrawing attendance zones to relieve campuses that are nearing their capacities.

Elementary campuses that are most in need of relief are: June W. Davis Elementary, S.H. Crowley Elementary, David L. Walker Elementary and Bess Race Elementary.

Demographer Brent Alexander provided trustees with the latest demographic information regarding new residential development, student enrollment and campus capacity figures.

Highlights include:

• Crowley is in top 10 of new home construction for DFW school districts
  
• Builders are now on track to produce about 9,000 new single-family homes in CISD over the next five years

• 18,000+ new homes could be built and occupied over the next 10 years

• More than 3,200 new apartments are in-process/planned as of second quarter of 2023

• Over the next 5 years, 2-2.5% annual enrollment growth will put stress on the district’s overall elementary capacity. The addition of Elementary No. 16 and No.17 helps provide relief, but additional capacity will be needed.

REZONING PROCESS

As the district looks at the capacity of schools to determine how to redraw boundaries, it will also work to minimize change for students, parents and teachers as much as possible.

CISD plans to ask trustees to vote on new attendance zone boundaries for the 2024-25 school year at the Feb. 29 school board meeting. But before that, there will be opportunities for all stakeholders to provide input and express opinions through virtual and in-person meetings as well as surveys.

All families impacted by the changes to attendance boundaries will receive communication beginning in March.

View the demographic report.

Crowley ISD provided trustees with an overview of results from the Fall 2023 Climate Survey that measured how parents, staff and students responded to questions about three main areas: Student Perception, Instructional Practices and Safety.

Survey participation included:

• Student Survey — 2,922 respondents
• Staff Survey — 1,308 respondents
• Parent Survey — 1,239 respondents

Daryle Moffett, chief of Student Services, outlined overall data and areas of opportunity for the responses. CISD partnered with Qualtrics to conduct the survey.

CISD will provide the data to campuses to identify areas of improvement and develop action plans.

View the presentation, which includes examples of responses and areas of improvement.

(L-R): June W. Davis, board member; Nedra Robinson, board secretary;

Kelicia Stevenson, board member; Superintendent Dr. Michael D. McFarland;

Dr. La Tonya Woodson-Mayfield, board president; Gary Grassia, board first vice president

Dr. Mia Hall, second vice president ; Daryl R. Davis II, board member;

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