{"id":199522,"date":"2026-03-11T06:57:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/199522\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T06:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:57:22","slug":"fort-bend-isd-board-votes-to-close-7-elementary-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/199522\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Bend ISD board votes to close 7 elementary schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas  (KTRK) &#8212; The Fort Bend Independent School District board voted to close seven elementary schools in a 4-to-3 vote on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The district shared plans to close seven schools in December. The seven schools include Austin Parkway Elementary, Dulles Elementary, Arizona Fleming Elementary, Edgar Glover Jr. Elementary, Mission West Elementary, Ridgegate Elementary, and Sugar Mill Elementary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials blamed declining enrollment and a $56 million budget deficit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">SEE ALSO: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/houston-isd-trustees-make-final-decision-closing-12-schools\/18650996\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston ISD board members to make final decision on closing 12 schools<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">District financial leaders told trustees last month that closing those schools could save $5 million to $7 million a year, which is less than 1% of the district&#8217;s budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">RELATED: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/houston-isd-close-12-schools-upcoming-2026-27-school-year-district-says\/18593512\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston ISD to close 12 schools in upcoming 2026-27 school year, district says<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; The Fort Bend Independent School District board voted to close seven elementary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[78764,56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-199522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-78764","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}