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LISD to host public meeting for rezoning plan
By Chris Roark, croark@acnpapers.com
For a while, it looked as though Lewisville ISD would not have any contentious rezoning issues this school year.
But not so fast.
LISD is proposing a boundary change that would send some students in the Castle Hills North portion of Castle Hills, who are currently zoned for Hebron High School, to The Colony High School.
The plan is being proposed to help alleviate the potential overcrowding at Hebron during the next few years.
There will be a community meeting at 6:30 p.m. March 22 at Killian Middle School to discuss the issue.
Tommy Ellington, the district’s executive director of student services, said Hebron is expected to have 4,200 students by 2020 if no rezoning takes place. It currently has about 2,900 students at the ninth-grade campus and the high school combined. The capacity is 3,400.
The Colony High School, however, has about 1,900 students. Its capacity is 2,500.
With the exception of Castle Hills North, which contains 74 students in kindergarten through the 12th grade, there are no residents in this area. Of those, 14 are in the eighth through 12th grade and would be grandfathered into Hebron.
However, the population is expected to increase. The city of Carrollton recently rezoned about 300 acres to single family/detached and multi-family in the Hebron High School zone. Ellington said there is a 350-unit apartment under construction. There are also 400 single-family lots set for development in the coming months, he said.
In addition, there are more than 130 lots available in Castle Hills North.
Several impacted families hope the district doesn’t rezone them so their children can go to Hebron. Tony Mumoz, a Castle Hills North resident, said the fact that his students are set to go to Hebron was the deciding factor in his family buying the house they did. Mumoz said a large part of it comes down to education.
“Education is very important,” Mumoz said. “Hebron is rated ‘Exemplary,’ and The Colony is ‘Academically Acceptable.’ We want the best opportunity for our kids.”
Other parents argued against breaking up the neighborhood.
Board member Brenda Latham suggested that the undeveloped land in that area should be rezoned for The Colony while leaving the existing subdivision alone.
“I don’t see that the 74 kids is going to break the bank,” Latham said of the Castle Hills North students.
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