SUGAR LAND, Texas – The Fort Bend Independent School District is officially pumping the brakes on the potential of rezoning certain high schools within the district.
The district first referenced the development in a webinar late last week, “During this phase of the planning process we will not bring forward additional middle school or any high school boundary plans for review as that work will be in a later planning phase,” said a district official in a twelve-minute and thirty second video titled, “Long-Range Boundary Planning Webinar 2025.”
Following the release of the webinar, there were questions as to when the “later planning phase” referenced might be enforced.
The district clarified their statement and confirmed to 2 Investigates Monday afternoon that high school boundary work will not be included for the Spring 2026 vote.
“It’s such a relief because that is what we were trying to get handled,” said Cathie Plumb, a homeowner in a location believed to have been potentially impacted if the high school rezoning proposal had gone to a vote.
Plumb lives on the east side of Highway 6 in Missouri City and is zoned to Elkins High School. In an interview last month with KPRC 2’s Gage Goulding, she expressed concerns that her home would be zoned out of Elkins, which a desired high school for many. Such a move according to her and others in the Quail Valley community would impact not only the quality of education but also property values.
Plumb, who does not have a child in FBISD, admits she never heard from the district about potential rezoning plans until she emailed officials after seeing talk of it on social media.
Tressy Garcia is also one of the parents that KPRC 2 spoke with in recent weeks. She lives on the west side of Highway 6 and has a child currently at Elkins. Garcia believes rezoning is necessary to alleviate overcrowding at Elkins.
“We’re not wanting to fight other communities and neighborhoods because they don’t want their kids out of these schools. At the end of the day we want an high school that is not at 112% capacity,” said Garcia in a November interview with KPRC 2’s Re’Chelle Turner.
While Plumb and other parents viewed it as a benefit to be zoned to specific schools for the quality of an education, Stephanie Brown has a different perspective.
Brown, who has been a member of past rezoning committees within FBSD, believes the focus needs to be on creating equitable education for all in the district regardless of zoning.
“Kicking the can down the road seems to be a habit and we’re supposed to be in the business of educating our kids and if we have over-utilized and under-utilized schools, that is not doing the best for our kids,” said Brown outside the district headquarters Monday afternoon.
The District board plans on meeting December 15th to reveal what the boundary plans will look like for elementary schools in the district as well as a new middle school that is to open its doors next year. Those plans will go to a vote in early Spring, according to the district.