The Katy school district has 314 portable buildings.  They cost $95,000 each.  That means KISD has $29,830,000.00 invested in portable buildings. 

These buildings are supposed to be used to hold student classrooms in schools where the regular building is overcrowded.  For example WoodCreek Junior High has 17 portable buildings providing 34 classrooms that hold thirty students each. Obviously someone in charge didn't have the management capability to plan ahead so that such an overcrowding situation had to occur! Either a new junior high was needed a year or two ago, or else the Superintendent needed to rezone and fill up the empty junior highs. The latter suggestion would be cheaper by several million dollars!

Leaving this particular junior high overflowing is, in my opinion, just an attempt, to make parents of those students falsely believe that they need more schools so they will vote for the proposed $758,000,000.00+ bond. Can anyone say "being held hostage"?

However, as it happens, KISD has many of these portables just sitting around all over the District not being used for anything except storage rooms or Parent Centers.  When did we as tax payers start funding "Parent Centers"? ...or storage rooms that cost $95,000 a pop? 

Here is a list of the portable buildings claimed by the school district at the end of June, 2014:

Annex                                           3

Agricultural Facility                       1

Alexander Elem.                         11

Bear Creek Elem.                        5

Beck JH                                       6

Beckendorff JH                            7

Cimarron Elem.                            2

Cinco Ranch HS                          4

Cinco Ranch JH                          4

Creech Elem.                               1

Exley Elem.                                 2

Fielder Elem.                               9

Franz Elem.                                 8

Golbow Elem.                              7

Hayes Elem.                                2

Holland Elem.                              1

Katy Elem.                                   1

Katy HS                                       2

Katy JH                                      13

Kilpatrick Elem.                            8

King Elem.                                 15

M&O and Police Dept.                 5

Mayde Creek Elem.                     2

Mayde Creek JH                         5

McRoberts Elem                         6

McDonald JH                              7

McMeans JH                               2

Memorial Parkway Elem.           10

Memorial Parkway JH                 4

Morton Ranch JH                        4

Morton Ranch HS                      15

OAC                                             4

Rhoads Elem.                            12

Rylander Elem.                          12

Schmalz Elem.                           12

Shafer Elem.                                5

Seven Lakes HS                        12

Seven Lakes JH                          8

South Transportation                  4

Stanely Elem.                            13

Sundown Elem.                           2

Taylor HS                                    3

West Memorial Elem.                  6

West Memorial JH                       1

Williams Elem.                             2

Wilson Elem.                                2

Winborn Elem.                             5

Wolman Elem.                             5

WoodCreek Elem.                     16

WoodCreek JH                          17

Total                                        314

The Katy school district would like for you to believe that ALL of these portables are being used.  They are not.  In fact we think these portables aren't very portable at all as once placed they tend to stay put and become storage units or parent (PTA,PTO and other parent organization) offices.  If you know of portables that are empty or being used for anything other than a classroom, please notify me as soon as you can.