Texas High School To Build New $35 Million Football Stadium Despite Incredibly Small Enrollment (Plano: buy, middle schools)

[elnina]

Interesting, but... why??
While there is no denying that the stadium is set to be remarkable, it is rather wild when you consider the total enrollment of the actual high school itself. During the 2020/21 school year, Melissa High School had 1,145 total students. In all four grades....

Is Collin County cementing itself as the stadium capital of the nation?
https://brobible.com/sports/article/...million-texas/

[TheOverdog]

I don't get why football stadiums get so much grief when Plano ISD's performing arts center is smaller, equally as expensive at $65m, far uglier (with a flat windowless unadorned concrete rectangle facing US75), and failing worse than Allen's football stadium did, as in it's never been able to open due to structural issues even though it is complete.


Stadiums compared to that are a great deal.


Also Melissa is going to be 5A school by the time this place is a decade old (and that's conservative!).

[NP78]

Originally Posted by TheOverdog

I don't get why football stadiums get so much grief when Plano ISD's performing arts center is smaller, equally as expensive at $65m, far uglier (with a flat windowless unadorned concrete rectangle facing US75), and failing worse than Allen's football stadium did, as in it's never been able to open due to structural issues even though it is complete.


Stadiums compared to that are a great deal.


Also Melissa is going to be 5A school by the time this place is a decade old (and that's conservative!).

I think Melissa has doubled in population in the last 5 years and likely will again in the next 5. I don't know enough about the area to know how they are structuring the High Schools (relatively smaller like Frisco or giant schools like Plano/Allen), but it's not hard to see how the ISD enrollment will be increasing dramatically in upcoming years.

1,145 is already a big school in a lot of places, just not DFW.

A quick look shows the HS enrollment went from 659 to 1,145 in 5 years and that 1,145 is for 20-21.

[albert648]

LOL and they say schools are underfunded....

[Rakin]

Melissa is the next small town on it's way to being to bigger large town. It's just north of Allen and McKinney that had built those other huge stadiums. Huge population growth in that area.

Allen BTW gave us Gave us Kyler Murray, Heisman Trophy winner and QB for Phoenix. Texas Football rocks the NFL.

[Grainraiser]

I think Melissa is getting ahead of the game while the can. Melissa will be 6A within the next 6 years or so. They are what Prosper was 7 years ago. They are simply the next town that is going to experience northern sprawl. The price tag will be a bargain 6 years from now.

[Taub201]

But until they grow into it, the $35M price tag should hit taxpayers fairly hard. They'll likely need to keep building elementary and middle schools and Buc-ees isn't enough to float the bill.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by Taub201

But until they grow into it, the $35M price tag should hit taxpayers fairly hard. They'll likely need to keep building elementary and middle schools and Buc-ees isn't enough to float the bill.

That's now how these things are funded.

Investors will buy bonds generating the capital required for the football stadium. And just like all other others it will be a good deal for everyone.

[TurtleCreek80]

Originally Posted by elnina

Interesting, but... why??
While there is no denying that the stadium is set to be remarkable, it is rather wild when you consider the total enrollment of the actual high school itself. During the 2020/21 school year, Melissa High School had 1,145 total students. In all four grades....

Is Collin County cementing itself as the stadium capital of the nation?
https://brobible.com/sports/article/...million-texas/

Like it or not, football is big in Texas….whether you’re in Aledo or Duncanville or Cedar Park or Kingswood….it’s certainly not just a Collin County thing!

It sounds like Melissa ISD is doing an appropriate job of anticipating enrollment to skyrocket in the coming years and is taking steps to put the growth infrastructure in place.

[serger]

So that three years of educational costs for all students in the school... Or something like that.