January 24, 2024 – Rosenberg, Texas – Last night, the Lamar CISD Board of Trustees hosted a workshop to
discuss annual growth and a demographic report presented by Zonda Education,
which identified trends that significantly exceed “fast-growth,” and place the
district in a unique category of “hypergrowth.” A district is classified as
fast-growth when an elementary school zone has between 150 to 300 new home
starts every year. If an elementary school attendance zone has more than 300
new home starts annually, then it is classified as hypergrowth.
Currently, Lamar
CISD has two zones with more than 700 new home starts, three zones with more
than 300 new home starts, and three zones with 150 to 300 new home starts. Due
to this growth, our district is equivalent to three fast-growing
districts.
Some additional key
takeaways from the report include the following:
- Once again,
Lamar CISD is the fastest-growing school district in the Houston area,
surpassing Conroe ISD and Fort Bend ISD, with 3,818 new home starts and
4,110 home closings annually.
- During the
next decade, the district is expecting an average of 2,135 newly enrolled
students every school year including 800 elementary students, which is
equivalent to the capacity of one new elementary school per year.
- Groundwork
for new neighborhoods is currently underway on roughly 3,440 lots across
the district. There are 37 active neighborhoods with 44,712 future home
sites with a projected growth of more than 4,000 new homes for the next 15
to 20 years.
- The district
is forecasted to have more than 55,100 students by the 2028-2029 school
year and more than 65,700 students by 2033-2034.
Lamar CISD has
requested Zonda Education provide these updates quarterly to support the
district with increased foresight and planning. The group is a national
research firm that offers enrollment projections, attendance zone planning, and
Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping for more than 100 school districts
annually.
The last
demographic report was completed in 2022 by Population and Survey Analysts
(PASA).
For more information, please visit www.LCISD.org/about/demographics-reports.
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