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Lamar CISD enrollment growth expected to continue as more housing comes online

Lamar CISD will continue to see student growth as housing continues to come online in the district.

The big picture: In five years, Lamar CISD has seen 12,451 students enroll in the district with over 2,000 in 2025-26 alone, data from a fourth quarter 2025 report by Zonda Demographics showed. However, Jonathan Maxwell, executive director of student programs, said the growth the district is experiencing will not reach the same levels as the past five years.

“We were growing at a rate that was almost straight up and down,” Maxwell said at an April 21 meeting. “It has come down a little bit, but still growing 1,600 to 1,900 per year.”

By the numbers: Rosenberg houses the largest concentration of students with 7,798 students, or 16% of the total student population, followed by Fulshear with 2,642 students, or 5.4% of the total student population.

Also of note: During the fourth quarter of 2025, LCISD ranked No. 1 amongst other Region 4 school districts in annual single-family home closings at 4,602 and future housing sites with 61,154.

 
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CVS Pharmacy opens location in Fulshear

CVS Pharmacy has opened a new location in Fulshear, store officials confirmed.

What you need to know: With over 9,000 locations, the business provides pharmacy and health services along with food, drinks, hygiene products and other essentials, according to its website.

  • 6726 FM 359, Fulshear

 
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After first quarter of 2026, CenterPoint Energy on track to achieve 2026 goals

CenterPoint Energy has made key first-quarter progress in reaching milestones tied to the company’s Greater Houston Resiliency Initiative, according to an April 17 news release from the company.

Digging deeper: Launched after Hurricane Beryl, the initiative is a multiyear effort to strengthen resilience and improve reliability for its 2.9 million electric customers, and to help build the most resilient coastal grid in the nation, according to the release. 

Quote of note: “We are proud of the progress made in 2025 which helped deliver more than 100 million fewer outage minutes when compared to 2024, and we are determined to make even more progress in 2026 as we work toward our defining goal: building the nation's most resilient coastal grid,” said Nathan Brownell, CenterPoint's vice president of Resilience and Capital Delivery, in the release.

 

Your Weekend To-Do List

Check out these weekend events across the metro area.

Fuzzy’s Taco Dash

Pet Adoption Event

May 2, 7:30 a.m.
Kingwood

May 2, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Houston

Learn more.

Learn more.

 

A Taste of Cy-Fair

Karbach Hot Sauce Festival

May 2, 5 p.m.
Cypress

May 3, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
Houston

Learn more.

Learn more.

 
To submit your own event, click here.

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Live updates: Parents eulogize Camp Mystic victims; lawmakers urge health officials to suspend camp's license

Over 130 Central Texas residents and visitors died over the July 4 weekend as an intense rainstorm and flooding swept through the region. Among them were 28 deaths at Camp Mystic: 25 young campers; aged 8 to 10 years old; two 18-year-old counselors; and 70-year-old Richard "Dick" Eastland, the camp's executive director.

The private Christian girls camp has been under scrutiny for the actions camp leaders took to attempt to save campers in cabins along the Guadalupe River.

What's happening: During the second day of public hearings April 28, a panel of lawmakers investigating the July 4 flood heard roughly 12 hours of testimony from: 

  • The Eastland family, which owns and operates Camp Mystic
  • The head of the Texas Division of Emergency Management
  • The families of some campers who survived the flood
  • The parents of seven girls who died at Camp Mystic on July 4
  • Officials from the Texas Department of State Health Services, which licenses youth camps

 

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