Fort Bend Independent School District
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About Fort Bend ISD
Fort Bend Independent School District is headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas, and is one of the most celebrated school systems in the state. Formed on April 18, 1959, through the consolidation of Sugar Land ISD and Missouri City ISD, the district has grown into the seventh-largest public school system in Texas and the 43rd largest in the United States. It serves roughly 80,000 students across 86 campuses spanning 170 square miles of Fort Bend County. Fort Bend ISD is notably described as the fifth most diverse school district in Texas, reflecting the county’s remarkable mix of residents from around the world.
The district desegregated in 1965, and through the late 1970s through the 1990s was one of the fastest-growing school districts in Texas, opening a new comprehensive high school roughly every five years. Today it operates twelve high schools, including institutions named after Dulles, Clements, Elkins, George Bush, and Thurgood Marshall. In 2011, Fort Bend ISD became the only school district in the nation recognized as a National School District of Character by Washington, D.C.’s National Schools of Character Program.
Books and Libraries
Fort Bend ISD has not been immune to the wave of book challenges that has swept Texas in recent years. The district joins its neighboring Fort Bend County district, Lamar Consolidated ISD, in having removed or restricted dozens of titles from school libraries. With nearly 100 books catalogued in this dataset as banned or restricted, Fort Bend ISD reflects how even high-performing, nationally recognized districts are navigating intense community pressure over library collections.