Magnolia ISD's Next Elementary School Has a Name: Kresston Elementary. The Board Votes Monday, Along With $5.9 Million for the First Work.

In every bond document so far it has been Elementary No. 10. On Monday night, November 16, the Magnolia ISD board is scheduled to vote on calling it Kresston Elementary, and on spending the first $5,885,240.42 to build it.

Both items are on the posted agenda for the regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. Neither is final until the board votes.

Why that name

The district bought the site inside the Kresston development, off FM 1486. The board item says the school is meant to take pressure off Audubon Elementary, where enrollment keeps climbing, and possibly Williams Elementary too.

The name follows board policy, the item says, and reflects "the intent of the Board of Trustees in collaboration with Johnson Development." Superintendent Dr. Jason Bullock recommends it.

What $5.9 million buys first

B&C Constructors, the district's builder for this school, took bids from subcontractors on October 29 after advertising the work. The district calls the result Package 1, an early release of work that will later be folded into the school's guaranteed maximum price. The builder's proposal, dated October 30, breaks it down:

• Structural steel: $4,405,534
• Clearing, grubbing, the building pad and grading: $835,000
• Underground electrical: $232,707
• Stormwater pollution controls: $28,000
• Temporary fencing and temporary facilities: $30,000
• The builder's general conditions (4.55%) and fee (1.85%): $353,999.43

Steel is three-quarters of the package. The subcontractor work alone comes to $5,531,241.

Where this fits

In September we reported the schedule the district gave its board. Elementary No. 10 was the furthest along of the new campuses. The board is due to approve its guaranteed maximum price on February 8, 2027, with construction starting in March 2027. The district's earlier estimate for the whole school was about $53.9 million, and its bond plan has it opening for the 2028-29 school year.

Set against that estimate, Monday's package is a little more than a tenth of the job. The real total for the building is the February number.

The money comes from the $465,688,326 bond voters approved in May with 63.51 percent of the vote.

Also on Monday's agenda

• A design review of the additions at the high schools, in the superintendent's report.
• Recognition of the October and November Teachers of the Month and the district's National Merit Scholars.
• Approval of library materials for purchase, which a 2025 state law, Senate Bill 13, now requires school boards to vote on.

If you want to speak

Anyone can address the board during audience participation. Turn in a request form at least 15 minutes before the meeting starts. Each speaker gets three minutes, and the board cannot discuss or act on anything that is not on the posted agenda. The agenda and its attachments are on the district's BoardBook page.