Klein ISD expecting more students this fall
SPRING, TX (KTRK) -- Students throughout southeast Texas are on the verge of summer vacation. And when they return to school in the fall, there's a good chance they'll have more classmates.
Districts throughout the state are growing and Klein ISD is among those expanding the fastest.
You can see the future of the district in a pre-K classroom at Zwink elementary. One of the students is newcomer Bentley Day, whose dad, Richard Shubin, fell in love with the campus visiting Bentley's cousins.
"The families want to come to this school," says Shubin. "They want to help out and show their appreciation to the teachers."
Shubin's family liked it so much, they moved there.
"With all of the build up around The Woodlands, Spring and Tomball, people are coming in left and right," Shubin said.
And he's right.
People are coming. There area 100 new students this year at Zwink alone.
"We have new families coming in all of the time. Almost every single day we have people coming a registering and getting their kids involved in our school," principal Jenny McCown said.
The growth is district wide and has been for years.
"The economy kind of tanked in 2008-2009, and house values dropped and the builders stopped building; we kept growing," Klein ISD spokesperson Judy Rimato said.
They'll keep growing. With the Grand Parkway under construction and a new ExxonMobil campus nearby, the expectation is another 1,400 students next fall.
Robert Robertson is in charge of building facilities and says the district puts a lot of effort into staying ahead of the curve.
A bond is planned for next spring. A new high school is already in the works.
"Anybody that moves to Klein is going to be in a great district," his aunt, Andrea Langford, said.
