Our district is experiencing growth, which forces changes to school boundaries. When there are schools with genuine overcrowding, why consider reducing Canyon Vista’s enrollment?
RRISD is considering several options for school boundaries that have various levels of student assignment changes and different degrees of balancing student enrollments. Canyon Vista is not experiencing growth and has a very stable enrollment of 76%. It has been for the past 10 years and is projected to be over the next 5. That is 15 years of capacity stability. Canyon Vista is not over crowded not is it expected to be. Now is not the time to change Canyon Vista. Two of the middle school options move students from Canyon Vista to Grisham. This affects about 285 homes in the Spicewood Elementary boundary. According to Spicewood enrollment, this simplifies down to about 64 kids in grades kindergarten through 5th. It reduces to less than 20 kids a grade level. In the current 4th grade class it is 16 children. In the 5th grade class it is 12 kids, 7 boys and 5 girls. These 12 students of the graduating class will be about 5% of their new 7th grade class at Grisham. At a stable 76% enrollme
