WHITEHOUSE - Voters in the Whitehouse Independent School District will decide in November on a $15 million bond issue for a new elementary school.
Enrollment is up about 27 percent districtwide since the last bond issue to construct Whitehouse High School, which opened in 2000. Enrollment increased from about 3,391 to 4,291 over the six-year period.
“We’ve just got more students and we’re blessed with some growth and we need a new building,” said Superintendent Dennis Miller.
If approved, the bond issue would trigger an estimated tax increase of 3.27 cents, or 2 percent, over the 2006-07 rate of $1.445 per $100 property valuation. The owner of an average home in the district, valued at $147,313, would pay about $48 more in taxes.
Miller said the district is considering three options for the location of a new elementary school, and is leaning heavily toward property near Whitehouse Junior High School.
When a new school is built, the district could shift some grade levels to make the most efficient use of the new space, Miller said.
The elementary school is the only project in the bond issue.
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