Crowley ISD is making headway on the first part of its voter-approved $948 million bond from 2023.

Trustees received an update on the bond’s first 11 projects during their Sept. 26 meeting. So far, four major projects are under construction — including the district’s 17th elementary school and a replacement campus for Crowley High — while its 18th elementary school and fifth middle school are in the design phase.

The school board also unanimously approved a construction manager at risk for the new Crowley Collegiate Academy, a stand-alone early college high school in the 2023 bond. Trustees tapped Fort Worth-based companies Steele & Freeman and Post L Group as a joint venture for the new campus.

Crowley Collegiate Academy will have the capacity to serve 1,000 students, freeing up the district’s two comprehensive high schools, officials said. The shuffling of students buys the district time for the inevitable, school board President Daryl Davis said: a third high school.

“What we are attempting to do is to maximize what we currently have,” he said.

Crowley ISD is among Tarrant County’s fastest-growing school districts, according to a recent report from Southlake-based demographer Zonda Education. Nearly 17,000 students were enrolled in the district for the 2024-25 academic year, according to figures presented to the school board Sept. 12.

Crowley Collegiate Academy’s expected completion date is August 2027.

The design for Crowley ISD’s 17th elementary school is based on a design similar to that of June W. Davis Elementary, Chief Operations Officer Randy Reaves said. 

Construction crews completed paving in front of the yet-to-be-named school and put up exterior and interior walls in the campus’s classroom wing. 

“They’re moving right along with that campus,” Reaves told trustees.

Trustee June Davis was glad to see progress made on the bond.

“Our students deserve it. Our staff deserves to have nice places to work. And it just really, really makes me very proud,” Davis said.

Jacob Sanchez is a senior education reporter for the Fort Worth Report. Contact him at jacob.sanchez@fortworthreport.org or @_jacob_sanchez. At the Fort Worth Report, news decisions are made independently of our board members and financial supporters. Read more about our editorial independence policy here.