{"id":654464,"date":"2026-05-20T13:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/654464\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T13:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:32:11","slug":"alvin-isd-closes-marek-wilder-elementary-schools-due-to-water-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/654464\/","title":{"rendered":"Alvin ISD closes Marek, Wilder elementary schools due to water damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alvin ISD shut down Marek and Wilder elementary schools due to &#8220;significant water damage&#8221; on Wednesday after thunderstorms doused the Houston area overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Classes are expected to resume on Thursday, ISD officials said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We appreciate your patience, understanding, and cooperation as we work to resolve this issue and ensure the campuses are safe for students and staff,&#8221; officials wrote in a Facebook post Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Cleanup crews\u00a0were on scene at around 8 a.m., and school officials were still assessing the full scale of the damage,\u00a0Renae Rivas, the chief communications officer at Alvin ISD, told the Chronicle. The two schools sit roughly a mile and a half apart\u00a0from one another within a pocket of small lakes in\u00a0Pearland&#8217;s Shadow Creek Ranch area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are working very, very hard to try to get school going tomorrow,&#8221; Rivas said.<\/p>\n<p>Rivas said parents should monitor updates via email, social media and local news coverage.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alvin ISD shut down Marek and Wilder elementary schools due to &#8220;significant water damage&#8221; on Wednesday after thunderstorms&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,282282,282281,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-654464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-hc-storms","tag-hc-trending","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}