{"id":407493,"date":"2026-08-15T17:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407493\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T17:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:22:13","slug":"houston-isd-to-sell-closed-school-campuses-heights-river-oaks-montrose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407493\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston ISD to sell closed school campuses | Heights – River Oaks – Montrose"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nine of the 12 schools closed by Houston ISD<\/a> ahead of the 2026-27 school year could now be sold after the district\u2019s board of managers declared the facilities \u201csurplus” property during its Aug. 13 meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Remember this?<\/p>\n

On Feb. 26, HISD\u2019s board of managers unanimously voted to close 12 schools in June<\/a>\u2014a choice district leaders said will save HISD $14.6 million to $20 million, as previously reported by Community Impact. Seven of the schools closed permanently, while the remaining schools<\/a> were co-located at a separate campus.<\/p>\n

The big picture<\/p>\n

On Aug. 13, the board of managers unanimously voted to declare the properties as surplus. HISD staff said the designation means the properties will be considered for sale, but the facilities could potentially be turned into community centers or affordable housing.<\/p>\n

Diving in deeper<\/p>\n

According to Aug. 13 meeting documents<\/a>, the closed schools that were declared as surplus are:<\/p>\n

Alcott ElementaryBriscoe ElementaryBurrus ElementaryFranklin ElementaryHenderson ElementaryPort Houston ElementaryRoss ElementaryCage ElementaryFleming Middle<\/p>\n

Other facilities that were also declared as surplus are:<\/p>\n

Dodson FacilityVelasco WarehouseWest area office<\/p>\n

Stay tuned<\/p>\n

According to HISD staff\u2019s Aug. 13 presentation, the board of managers will need to approve potential sale transactions for the facilities before they are completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine of the 12 schools closed by Houston ISD ahead of the 2026-27 school year could now be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[141888,142559,142558,69059,142560,142557,56,58,1686,57],"class_list":["post-407493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-2026-27-school-year-houston-isd","tag-hisd-campus-sales","tag-hisd-property-sales","tag-hisd-school-closures","tag-hisd-selling-schools","tag-hisd-surplus-facilities","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-isd","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407493","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=407493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}