TISD Planning for the Future
Posted/updated on: October 23, 2011 at 5:56 pm
TYLER— The Tyler school district is looking to the future. Over the next ten years, TISD anticipates 2,500 students. To meet the demands school officials are talking about building two new high schools. They would be built on the existing sites of Robert E Lee and John Tyler. Currently between the two sites, 31 portable buildings are on use on the two campuses.
Future plans also include a new Rice Elementary, which would be built on a new site and a new Dixie Elementary to be built on the existing site. There is also talk of an ‘Advanced Technology and Career Center’ at a new location that will be shared between the two high schools.
The discussion of the districts needs also include creating 4 middle schools and 4 intermediate schools.
All of this is still in the discussion stage. If the public approves of the plan, somewhere down the road a bond proposal would have to be presented to the public to finance the improvements.
