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Several Montgomery County school districts, including Conroe ISD, have seen enrollment increases in the last five years, while others in the Greater Houston region experienced losses.

Community Impact analyzed data from the Texas Education Agency to learn how many students were enrolled at public school districts for the 2025-26 school year compared to the 2021-22 school year.

The context: Over the last five years, more than half of public school districts across the Greater Houston area lost students, with one district—Aldine ISD—seeing a more than 15% decline in enrollment, according to Texas Education Agency data released for the 2025-26 year. In The Woodlands area, however, six districts analyzed from Montgomery County and North Houston show increases in that time frame.

In-Step Dance Center, a dance studio that offers classes for students from age 2 through adults, recently opened a new location on Sawdust Road.

The details: The studio, directed by Dana Loving Sparks, was founded in 1999 and is entering its 28th season. In-Step Dance Center offers classes in dance styles such as jazz, tap, ballet, hip-hop and more. It currently offers adult dance classes in tap and hip-hop as well as a homeschool dance program during the day.

Classes are open for registration and can be booked online.

• Opened Aug. 15
• 314 Sawdust Road, Ste. 200, Spring

There are several events happening in The Woodlands this weekend, including performances by Lynyrd Skynyrd and Foreigner at The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion and The Young Makers Market at Market Street.

Lynyrd Skynyrd & Foreigner
Lynyrd Skynyrd and Foreigner will take the stage for a night of rock at The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. The show will open with Six Gun Sally, and doors will open at 6 p.m. Attendees should visit The Pavilion’s website for bag policies.

• Aug. 27, 6:30 p.m.

• Ticket prices vary

• 2005 Lake Robbins Drive, The Woodlands

Young Makers Market
Presented by The Woodlands Arts Council, students in grades 3-12 will have an opportunity to sell their own artistic creations in a mini-arts festival in Market Street.
 

• Aug. 29, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

• Free

• 9595 Six Pines Drive, The Woodlands

Alliance Residential is constructing Broadstone Gosling Oaks, a new apartment community, as the first residential portion of Newman Commercial Real Estate’s Gosling Oaks mixed-use development project, according to an Aug. 24 news release. The housing development will occupy 14.64 acres of the 50-plus-acre Gosling Oaks development on the southwest corner of Gosling and West Rayford roads, according to a news release from Newman CRE.

Zooming in: Alliance acquired the multi-family parcel from Newman CRE and is developing Broadstone Gosling Oaks independently. The community will feature close proximity to the retail and restaurants part of the larger mixed-use development in addition to walkable green spaces and relocated live oaks.
 

• Opening TBD
• 24812 Gosling Road, Spring

The Texas Department of Insurance must take action to promote competition and “prohibit excessive or unfairly discriminatory rate setting" in the state's homeowners insurance market, Gov. Greg Abbott said Aug. 24.

The background: Texans are paying the fourth-highest home insurance premiums in the nation, Community Impact previously reported. State data shows that the average Texas home insurance premium nearly doubled from $1,791 in 2016 to $3,506 in 2025.

The details: Abbott asked the TDI to prohibit insurers from using the age of a home and homeowners' personal data when setting rates; create a task force targeting insurance fraud; study the impact of inflated insurance claims; and require insurers to consider a homeowner's participation in a roof fortification program when writing policies.

Another perspective: "Under Greg Abbott, Texas has been one of the most expensive states in the country to own and maintain a home," Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic candidate for Texas governor, said in a statement. "If Abbott really wanted to lower costs, he would have done it in the last 12 years."