Celina ISD is beginning the 2026-27 school year with Willard Middle School, one of several new campuses opening across North Texas as enrollment needs vary by district and neighborhood.
Willard Middle School is a three-level, 212,000-square-foot campus near the Cross Creek neighborhood. The campus includes areas for fine arts, athletics and collaborative learning, according to audacy.com.
Prosper ISD is also adding a Celina-area campus, Jim Bridges Middle School, near Custer Road and Frontier Parkway. The district expects about 700 students when it opens and says the campus will ease crowding at Jones and Rogers middle schools.
Prosper ISD delayed the student opening of Watkins Middle School until 2027 after slower homebuilding and enrollment projections, with the finished building set to be used temporarily for district support services.
Other northern-area districts are adding schools as well. Northwest ISD is opening Floyd Barksdale Middle School near Pecan Square in Northlake, Dr. Leigh Anne Romer Elementary School in the Madero community and Dr. David Hicks Early Childhood Center, its first campus dedicated only to prekindergarten.
Argyle ISD is opening Scott Gibson Middle School on FM 407 for seventh and eighth grades, with capacity for 1,200 students.