SAISD News – The SAISD board vote of 5-2 left us with a final list of school closures within SAISD. This is the last year these schools will be in operation. As it stands with public education in Texas and the schools closing in our neighborhoods, it is a sad time. History is within so many walls, generations of education and community belong within these walls. The kids become neighbors when they walk to school. School closures are so much more then money and losing our schools can be a difficult process.
Schools that will close at the end of the 2023-24 school year include:
Green Elementary School
Foster Elementary School
Miller Elementary School
Highland Park Elementary School
Knox Early Childhood Center
Nelson Early Childhood Center
Tynan Early Childhood Center
Douglass Elementary School
Forbes Elementary School
Huppertz Elementary School
Lamar Elementary School
Storm Elementary School
Other schools will merge: Beacon Hill Dual Language Academy and Cotton Academy, Kelly Elementary and Lowell Middle School, and Gonzales Early Childhood Center and Twain Dual Language Academy.
Another two schools, Baskin Elementary School and Carroll Early Childhood Center, will close in later school years after construction at campuses where those students are moving to is completed. Gates Elementary School will be closing at the end of the 2023-24 school year and students will be sent to M.L King Academy after renovations on that campus.
While those renovations are taking place, however, the Gates campus will house both MLK and Gates students.
