{"id":364593,"date":"2026-07-07T23:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364593\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T23:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:09:14","slug":"middle-school-makeovers-668m-in-risd-middle-school-transformations-underway-richardson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364593\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle school makeovers: $668M in RISD middle school transformations underway | Richardson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.risd.org\/home\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Richardson ISD<\/a> parents Emily Winn and Juanita Armstrong watched fencing go up and construction roll in around Apollo Junior High at the end of May.<\/p>\n<p>When the campus opens as a middle school in fall 2028, adding over 150 sixth-grade students, their houses will look on the school\u2019s new entrance.<\/p>\n<p>The two-year construction will complete RISD\u2019s middle school transition, turning the district\u2019s six remaining junior highs into middle schools for sixth through eighth grade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s about time,\u201d said Winn, whose daughter will be in Apollo\u2019s first sixth-grade class. \u201cWe went to see Lake Highlands Middle School, and it is shiny and new and beautiful and gorgeous, and I want that in our neighborhood too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richardson ISD parents Emily Winn and Juanita Armstrong watched fencing go up and construction roll in around Apollo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2626,2050,31515,11221,160,162,161,959,5810],"class_list":["post-364593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-bond","tag-budget","tag-junior-high","tag-middle-schools","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-richardson","tag-richardson-isd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364593","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=364593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}