Northwest ISD Approves High School Zones Ahead of Davis Opening

Northwest ISD trustees voted unanimously Nov. 9 to adopt high school attendance zones for the 2027-28 school year, Community Impact reported the next day. The lines were drawn for the opening of Davis High School, which the paper, citing a presentation by Chief of Facilities Sarah Stewart, described as the district’s fourth comprehensive high school, scheduled to open in August 2027.

The official Nov. 9 regular-meeting agenda listed the item as “Davis High School Attendance Boundaries,” an action item presented by Stewart, on a session called for 5 p.m. in the Northwest ISD Board Room at 2001 Texan Drive. The district’s attendance-boundaries page, updated after the vote, now carries the heading “2027-2028 Attendance Boundaries Approved” and says the board’s action “create[s] an attendance zone for Davis High School and will provide enrollment relief across the district for all high schools.” Official minutes were not opened for this report; the unanimous count is from Community Impact.

What the board changed, and what was already on the table

The official page says that, beyond revisions posted Nov. 2, the board voted to enlarge the area that will stay at Northwest High School. Under that vote, Thousand Oaks, which sits near Seven Hills Elementary, and some adjoining neighborhoods will stay in the Northwest High School zone for 2027-28. Community Impact attributed that addition to an amendment requested by board member Steve Sprowls, and said Thousand Oaks had been left out of the plan shown on Sept. 28.

The Nov. 2 revisions, which the official page says were made after community comments and then presented to the board on Nov. 9, were: the part of the Hughes Elementary zone north of State Highway 170 would go to Davis, so that the entire Hughes zone would feed Davis; Eaton High School would keep the Bridgeview, Spring Ranch and Lonesome Dove neighborhoods, which had earlier been pointed toward Davis; and households on the north side of Seven Hills Road inside the Seven Hills Elementary attendance area would stay at Northwest High School, instead of shifting to Eaton. Stewart, according to Community Impact, also said the district had taken a survey from Oct. 26 to Oct. 30 and had met with Zonda Demographics more than once while the lines were being studied.

The official page adds a caution from the district itself: after those Nov. 2 changes, Northwest ISD “believes high school rezoning will likely need to take place sooner than anticipated to relieve Northwest High School,” and that a later redraw would “likely take place in two to three years.” That is the district’s own statement about a future process, not a schedule that has already been adopted.

Who may stay, and how families have to answer

The same official page, as it stood after the vote, sets out who may remain at a current campus. Rising freshmen and sophomores who are rezoned to Davis may stay at their present high school if they are in an academy there, are on a staff transfer, or have a rising junior sibling who will stay. Students who stay because of a junior sibling may continue that transfer through high school if they keep good attendance and behavior, but they will not get district transportation, and brothers or sisters who have not reached high school by 2027-28 are left out of that sibling rule. The page also says students entering their senior year may stay if they are rezoned, and that, because the district has determined there will be capacity at the existing comprehensive high schools, it recommended allowing juniors and sophomores in 2027-28 to stay as well, again without district transportation and subject to attendance and behavior rules.

Families who have the option to remain, the official page says, were to receive an Intent to Remain form on Nov. 10 and are required to fill it out, whether they plan to stay or go to the new campus. A response is due Dec. 1. Other transfer applications will be taken from April 1 to May 15. An interactive map of the approved 2027-28 zones is posted on the district’s school-finder tool, the page says.

Community Impact, citing its earlier reporting, said Davis High School is being paid for from a voter-approved 2023 bond that it put at nearly $2 billion. That bond is background for the new campus, not the action taken Nov. 9. This report does not treat the boundary vote as a new bond election.

The district’s official contact page lists the administration building’s physical address as 2001 Texan Drive, Justin, Texas 76247, with a mailing address of P.O. Box 77070, Fort Worth, Texas 76177, and a main telephone number of 817-215-0000.

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