How often do they change? I know the individual schools that a property is zoned to within an ISD is subject to change, but how high is the risk that a home located adjacent to the boundary between districts will get switched?

That makes sense. I'm looking at the boundary between Montgomery and Conroe. The line appears very arbitrary in a few places, not following any existing road, subdivision, property line or natural feature. It actually bisects the property I'm looking at.

I have some experience with Montgomery on this front. Your bigger issue here may be that no one really knows where that boundary really is. There a chick along the Montgomery/Magnolia line that is in both!

If you really want to know the answer, email both districts' open records officer and request the district boundary metes and bounds description. Post the description or send it to me in an email and I can help you out.

If it bisects your property you can ask the school boards to change it. Generally the rules on how they deal with a student when the property line bisects the property. Usually they want 50% or more of the house for the student to be considered a student of that district, but I've seen a few situations where they take bedroom locations into account.

Bigger headache is going to be paying taxes to both ISDs. If it's not a dream property, walk away.

Boundaries within an isd change when new schools are built but overall isd don't change or it takes some big changes to do so

normaleagle05 said:

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I have some experience with Montgomery on this front. Your bigger issue here may be that no one really knows where that boundary really is. There a chick along the Montgomery/Magnolia line that is in both!

If you really want to know the answer, email both districts' open records officer and request the district boundary metes and bounds description. Post the description or send it to me in an email and I can help you out.

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I may end up doing that. An open records request to MCAD came back with documents noting "MULTIPLE ACCTS BECAUSE PROPERTY SITS ON 2 SCHOOL DISTRICTS"

I looked up Conroe and they have a Legal Dept that processes their open records requests. When I had to get the Montgomery description ~10 years ago I had to email the superintendent or his direct assistant. I might have access to that description somewhere, but I don't think so.

I got a hold of my copy of the Montgomery description. Tell me where the property is and I can tell you how the ISD boundary crosses it (according to MISD).

normaleagle05 said:

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I got a hold of my copy of the Montgomery description. Tell me where the property is and I can tell you how the ISD boundary crosses it (according to MISD).

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I'd still be curious to know, but someone else put it under contract today.
https://www.har.com/homedetail/118-lyndsey-dr-montgomery-tx-77316/9195662

Google map of boundary passing through the lot


HAR view of boundary bisecting lot, lot split into into two parcels

The ISD boundary follows a series of original survey lines (original Texas land grants) in this area.

The orange lines (except the selected parcel) are the survey lines. The smaller survey to the north was cut up and a part of that survey was bought and included in the subdivision plat long after the ISD lines were drawn through the unoccupied country.

To REALLY know where the lines are you need the ISD's written description, that of the adjacent ISD, and to know where the things referenced are located. A lot of ISD boundaries are referenced to original surveys lines, which themselves can be difficult to nail down to a real location.



If you go pull the plat (Cabinet K, Slide 46) it shows the survey lines/ISD boundary as being the same line.

There is some variety in the survey names from different sources, but here is a sample of the description in the area:

Quote:

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Thence north with the west line of said Mortimer survey to
the south line of the Richard Smith survey;
Thence east with the south line of said Richard Smith survey
to the southeast corner thereof;
Thence north along the east line of said Richard Smith survey
to its northeast corner;
Thence west with the north line of said Smith survey to the
southeast corner of the Theodore Bennette survey;
Thence north with the east boundary lines of the Theodore
Bennette, Robert P. Stewart and Nancy Lynch surveys to the south line
of the James Smith survey;

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