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School district in Texas, United States

Spring Independent School District is a school district based in the Gordon M. Anderson Leadership Center in unincorporated Harris County, Texas, United States. It is located in north Harris County. The district serves over 34,000 pre kindergarten through twelfth grade students in a diverse district located 20 mile (32 km) north of downtown Houston in a suburban area of Harris County that spans 57 square miles (148 km2). As of May 2023, the district's ethnic breakdown is 51.6 percent Hispanic, 38.0 percent African American, 4.7 percent White and 2.0 percent Asian. Spring ISD serves a small portion of Houston, and portions of unincorporated Harris County including the community of Spring. Spring ISD earned an overall “B” rating under the Texas Education Agency’s accountability ratings system for the 2021 2022 school year. More than half of its campuses earned an “A” or “B” rating, with the district earning a cumulative score of 81.

Spring ISD formed in 1935 from the combination of the Harrell Common School District and the Spring Common School District. The district's demographics changed as time passed. In the 1995–1996 school year the district had 28% low income students. Its racial demographics were 56% White, 20% Black, and 18% Hispanic. In the 2002 2003 school year the low income percentage was 43.9%. In the 2005 2006 school year the district had 55% low income students. The demographics included 39% Black, 33% Hispanic, and 23% White. By 2012 2013 the percentage of low income students was 73.2%. In 2006 its two high schools, Spring and Westfield, had a combined population of 7,500. Dr. Robert Sanborn, the president and CEO of the organization Children at Risk, said that Spring ISD should have had schools in the top ten high schools featured in the Houston Press article "These Kids Go to the Best Public High School in Houston" as Humble ISD and Spring Branch ISD did. Instead, both Spring ISD schools ranked in the "Tier Two" list. In 2007 the district held a bond election. In 2008 Spring ISD's virtual school opened.

Northgate Forest, a subdivision, garnered attention all over the Houston area when 190 residents filed a petition to withdraw from Spring Independent School District and join neighboring Klein Independent School District. The petition for detachment began circulating in December 2006, after Northgate residents helped defeat a bond issue for the district that November. Northgate Forest's primary complaints were that the district's SAT and TAKS scores had been declining consistently in recent years, that the district was spending money inefficiently, and that taxes were too high. Residents cited a section of the Texas Education Code that allows a given area to secede from the school district they are zoned to if another district will agree to absorb them. Jim McIngvale, an area resident and salesman also known as "Mattress Mac", said that he disagreed with the proposal. The spokesperson for the group, Tom Mathews, said in 2007 that 45 school aged children resided in the community. Seven attended Spring ISD schools, and the rest attended private schools. According to Mathews, the schools were low performing, so most parents did not send their children to the zoned schools. According to the proposed 2020 2021 high school map, the eastern portion of the Spring census designated place will be reassigned from Spring High School to Dekaney High School. Due to the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic in Texas the district delayed the high school boundary changes until at least 2022 2023.

All of the schools are located in unincorporated Harris County.

Southwell School – A segregated school for African Americans, Southwell operated on the property of what is now B. F. Clark Park from 1925 to 1945. In 2019 the district announced plans to open TeachUp Spring, a teacher training center, in an ex ITT Tech facility along Interstate 45 (North Freeway), in May of that year. Spring ISD opened Planet Ford Stadium in 2019. Planet Ford Stadium, located at 23802 Cypresswood Dr. in Spring, is the home field for the Spring, Dekaney and Westfield high school football teams. The district reached an agreement with Randall Reed's Planet Ford for the naming rights to the stadium and adjoining community center known as the Randall Reed Center.

From 2008 to 2012, the number of Hispanic students increased by 3.8%, the number of black students increased by 1.4%, the number of White students decreased by 6%, and the number of Asian students decreased by 0.5%. The number of students with low economic statuses increased by 7.5% and the number of limited English proficient and/or bilingual students increased by 2.7%. The demographic trends were similar to the state averages of Texas. In 2015 the district had 36,950. The enrollment was projected to grow by 1,800 in five years and the annual growth rate was 0.97%.

In the 2011 2012 school year the passing rates for the 10th grade Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) tests for Spring ISD were as follows: 92% for social studies, 90% in English, 65% in Science, and 62% in mathematics; the English and social studies percentages were similar to the state averages while the other two were about 10 points below the state averages. The 11th graders that year scored above the state averages in all categories.

The Spring ISD Police Department, established in 1991, moved to its current location at 420 Lockhaven Dr., Houston, TX 77073 in 2018. The police department was previously located at 210 North Forest Blvd and 15330 Kuykendahl Road. Spring ISD police officers work for the district that commissions them. Under the Education Code of the State of Texas, school district police officers are supervised by the Chief of Police of the school district. This matter falls under 37.081 of the Texas Education Code. The Chief of Police answers to the Superintendent or his/her designee.