Lewisville Independent School District (LISD) is a 127-square mile

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based in Lewisville,

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) covering all of Lewisville, The Colony, Highland Village,

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, and Double Oak as well as portions of

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, Plano, Carrollton, Frisco,

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, Coppell,

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and Argyle. LISD Guidebook The recent suburban growth of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex has caused LISD to grow at a great pace, becoming the 94th-largest school district in the United States in 2006. Proximity calculated a 28.56% increase in student population from 2000 to 2006; LISD was declared the 17th largest school district in the State of Texas in 2008. To help maintain this growth, in May 2008, voters approved a $697 million bond package. In 2010, the school district was rated " Recognized" by the

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History

For several years in the 2000s and 2010s the district grew by about 2,000 pupils annually. In the 2000s the district expected to have its student body reach 60,000 by 2016, but a 2011 study commissioned by the district stated that the student enrollment would peak at 55,000. In the early twenty-first century, Lewisville ISD high schools began to reach their capacities, prompting the decision by the school board to construct additional ninth and tenth grade campuses for all schools except for

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. In the case of

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, and Hebron High School, ninth grade centers were built adjascent to the existing campuses.

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gained two additional campuses, LHS Killough and LHS Harmon. Ninth and tenth grade students attend both of these campuses, before attending classes on the main campus for their junior and senior years. In 2013 the district planned to change attendance boundaries of Flower Mound middle schools, causing some controversy in that city.

Athletics

The 10,000-capacity

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is the home of the Lewisville Farmers.

1:X

1:X (pronounced 1 to X) is a program implemented across the District of LISD. The program rolled out iPads to the vast majority of LISD Students, and implemented Google Apps specifically for the school district. The goal is to have "The right technology at the right time."

iPad replacement program

Beginning in 2018, 4th graders and current high school students received new 10.5" iPad Pro devices with keyboard cases to replace aging iPad Airs implemented in 2014. Students in grades 5-8 received the exact same iPad Air devices they had before, but with a new

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and a new case with no keyboard. In fall 2019, students in grades 5-8 will be receiving new iPad Pros with keyboards to match the rest of the district.

Fiber network

Starting in 2016 and completing in spring 2018, LISD rolled out a fiber optic network provided by Unite Private Networks, that provides speeds of up to 1 Gbps. This network replaced aging cable infrastructure from local ISP

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. The district also installed a link to the Region XI Educational Service Center.

Schools

High schools

(1981) *

(1999) * Hebron High School (1999) *

(1897) * Killough Lewisville High School North (2005) * Lewisville High School - Harmon (2010) *

(1986)

Middle schools

* Arbor Creek Middle School,

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, feeds into Hebron High School * Briarhill Middle School * Creek Valley Middle School * DeLay Middle School (originally opened in 1974 at the site of the original Lewisville High, relocated to the former Milliken Middle School campus in 2010) * Clayton Downing Middle School * Durham Middle School * Forestwood Middle School feeds into Flower Mound High School (9th grade freshmen attend Flower Mound 9th Grade Campus) * Griffin Middle School * Hedrick Middle School * Huffines Middle School feeds into Killough Lewisville High School North and

* Killian Middle School (uncertain founded date) * Lakeview Middle School * Lamar Middle School (Flower Mound, Texas) * McKamy Middle School * Shadow Ridge Middle School

Elementary schools

* B.B. Owen Elementary * Bluebonnet Elementary * Bridlewood Elementary * Camey Elementary * Castle Hills Elementary * Central Elementary ** By 2006 the school received an addition that allowed for an additional 250 students. * Coyote Ridge Elementary * Creekside Elementary * Degan Elementary
LISD STEM Academy at Donald Elementary
(Became a STEM Academy in 2018) **2006

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* Ethridge Elementary * Flower Mound Elementary **1993–94

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* Forest Vista Elementary * Garden Ridge Elementary * Hebron Valley Elementary * Hedrick Elementary - The 2018-2019 school year was the last year this school operated. * Heritage Elementary **2000–01

* Hicks Elementary * Highland Village Elementary **1993–94

* Homestead Elementary * Indian Creek Elementary *Independence Elementary (feeds into Killian MS) * Lakeland Elementary * Lewisville Elementary * Liberty Elementary * Lillie J. Jackson Early Childhood Center, for students that qualify under the TEA Prekindergarten requirements. * McAuliffe Elementary * Memorial Elementary STEM academy * Mill Street Elementary * Morningside Elementary * Old Settlers Elementary * Parkway Elementary School * Peters Colony Elementary * Polser Elementary * Prairie Trail Elementary * Rockbrook Elementary * Southridge Elementary * Timber Creek Elementary * Valley Ridge Elementary * Vickery Elementary * Wellington Elementary

Other schools

Dale Jackson Career Center Dale Jackson Career Center (DJCC) or Technology, Exploration and Career Center West (TECC-W or TECC-West) is the first of two vocational schools built by the Lewisville Independent School District. DJCC serves students from the five Lewisville ISD ...

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Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program (housed at Lewisville Learning Center) * Lewisville Learning Center (technically classified as a

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). The LLC offers three main programs: ** District Alternative Education Program, for disciplinary students ** Accelerated Division, for grade advancement in both middle and high schools ** Student Age Parenting Program, the only location in LISD to currently offer parenting education classes

Former schools

*Lina Milliken Middle School (opened in 1977, closed in 1997) **After closure as a middle school, the facility was used as the Lewisville High 9th Grade Campus until its new facility opened in 2005, whereupon it was closed and unoccupied. The facility reopened in fall 2010 as the relocated DeLay Middle School. **1992–93

*College Street Elementary School (closed in 2019) **Replaced by Mill Street Elementary School, which was completed in October, 2019. The district plans to repurpose the building. *Stewart’s Creek Elementary School (Opened 1981, closed early 2021)

References

External links

Lewisville Independent School District home page

Facts and Figures regarding LISD

1:X home page
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