Fast-growing Lamar Consolidated Independent School District now serves more than 49,000 students across 15 municipalities, having grown by 2,000 students since last year.
Meeting the needs of this expanding community – from classrooms to transportation – remains a top priority for the district, Sonya Cole-Hamilton, LCISD’s chief communications officer, said. Four years ago, in 2021, enrollment was 36,000 students.
“Lamar CISD opened five new campuses for the 2025-2026 school year in response to the district's continued hypergrowth,” Cole-Hamilton said.
The district currently has seven color tracks, with each color track anchored by a flagship high school, followed by a junior high, a middle school, and several neighborhood elementary schools. (More information on Lamar CISD’s color tracks can be found at lcisd.org/91727_3.)
In LCISD, secondary campuses in the same color track share a mascot, while their associated neighborhood elementary campuses each have their own unique mascots, geared toward the younger students.
Tomas High School, Banks Junior High School, Bielstein Middle School, and Fagert Elementary are all part of the new Green Track. Haygood Elementary is part of the growing Purple Track. They serve the expanding community of families and students in the northwestern part of the district’s 385-square-mile territory, Cole-Hamilton said.
Fagert Elementary School (Green Track)
Address: 24735 Easton Ramsey Way, Richmond
Enrolled students: 716
Faculty: 55
Principal: Jearine Jordan
Mascot: Fox
Fagert Elementary is named after Alice Deanne Sbrusch Fagert, a popular teacher in the Richmond-Rosenberg area for 47 years.
Haygood Elementary School (Purple Track)
Address: 31620 Fulshear Bend Dr., Fulshear
Enrolled students: 748
Faculty: 42
Principal: Dr. Troy Bethley
Mascot: Hedgehog
The school is named in honor of husband-and-wife James Richard and Marinella Haygood, who both taught in Lamar CISD. James Richard Haygood passed away in 2009, and Marinella Haygood in 2015. They are survived by three children and several grandchildren.
Secondary Complex 7, at 8020 Farm to Market Rd 723 in Richmond, is home to Tomas High School, Banks Junior High, and Bielstein Middle School. They will serve the neighborhoods of Lakes of Bella Terra, Westheimer Lakes, Lakemont, and some of Candela.
All three schools share Chomp the alligator as their mascot. Students at the new Tomas High School are mainly from Foster High School and Fulshear High School, with additional enrollment from surrounding areas.
Tomas High School (Green Track)
Enrolled students: 1,392
Faculty: 73
Principal: Lilly Rincon
School motto: GENE-rating Excellence. Every Gator. Every day.
“The first day showed that our Gator family is ready for a legendary year!” said Principal Lilly Rincon. A career educator, Rincon previously led Jefferson Elementary in Houston ISD for seven years and George C. Scarborough High School for two years before joining Tomas.
The new campus is named in honor of Gene Tomas, who dedicated 37 years to Lamar CISD before retiring in 2015. Tomas served at Bowie Elementary, Lamar Junior High, George Junior High, Lamar Consolidated High School, and Terry High School, before retiring as principal of Foster High School.
Banks Junior High (Green Track)
Enrolled students: 1028
Faculty: 47
Principal: Dr. Courtney Dickey
The school is named after Ella Banks, a beloved LCISD bus driver for 40 years.
Bielstein Middle School (Green Track)
Enrolled students: 514
Faculty: 23
Principal: Dr. Sherri L. Henry
The school is named after the late Judge RH “Sandy” Bielstein, the first judge for Fort Bend County Court-at-Law No. 4. Bielstein died in 2017.
Lamar CISD will open four more new campuses next year and has plans to build approximately 18 additional schools by 2030, Superintend Roosevelt Nivens said.
Varma is a freelance writer. She can be reached at juhi.varma@gmail.com.
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