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Fort Bend Independent School District, also known as Fort Bend ISD or FBISD, is a school district that operates 86 schools in Fort Bend County. Based in Sugar Land, Texas , it is the 5th most diverse school district in Texas and is the 43rd largest district in the United States .
Crawford High School was envisioned by FBISD as a method of alleviating overcrowding at Sienna's Ridge Point High School, which opened a decade earlier in 2010.The school will divert students away from RPHS, in addition to Hightower High School, which since mid-2020 had enrolled students previously zoned to Ridge Point, again to combat the latter's excess. [9]
Austin opened in 1995 to alleviate overcrowding from Kempner High School and Clements High School.Austin was FBISD's sixth comprehensive high school. [8]When Travis High School opened, some of Austin's territory was given to Travis, and Austin took some territory from Kempner High School.
Clements was occupied in 1983, [9] making it FBISD's third comprehensive high school. [10]The school was named after William P. Clements.. In 2023, as part of a $1.26 billion bond package by Fort Bend ISD, a proposition was made calling for the construction of a new $222 million rebuild of Clements on the current site's athletic facilities.
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Travis High School is named after Texas pioneer William B. Travis.The campus opened on August 21, 2006 and received its dedication on October 15 of the same year. [9] The opening of Travis relieved Austin High School and George Bush High School, [10] with grades 9 and 10 immediately zoned to Travis, [11] and grades 11 to 12 continuing to go to Austin with a phaseout of one grade per year. [12]
Ground broke on Fort Bend ISD High School #11 in July 2008, and the campus opened in the 2010–11 school year to ease overcrowding at Hightower and Elkins high schools. Some Sienna Plantation residents criticized the chosen location of Ridge Point, while Arcola residents had a positive reception to the location.
As of February 1, 2016, Hightower is one of the eight 6A schools in the District. In UIL terms, they are in district 6A-20, alongside Austin, Bush, Clements, Dulles, Kempner, Ridge Point, and Travis High Schools, all of which are in Fort Bend ISD. For a brief moment, they had moved down to 5A but have since returned to district 6A-20.