Clear Creek ISD faces more than $124 million in facility repairs over the next five years. The district presented the findings at a board workshop Monday, Sept. 14.

The district partnered with Houston-based PBK Architects to assess every CCISD campus. The study, authorized in June 2025, wrapped up in August, Superintendent Karen Engle told trustees at the board workshop.

The $124 million figure is a projected cost, not an approved budget. It lands as the district navigates a separate $23 million budget shortfall for fiscal year 2026-27, Houston Public Media reported. Enrollment dropped from 39,684 students to 38,780 between the 2024-25 and 2025-26 school years.

What the study found

Director of Facility Services Alex Aragon told trustees the analysis divided every building into sections and individual assets, then graded each one by condition, characteristics and remaining lifespan. Categories included mechanical, plumbing, roofing and electrical systems.

The study cataloged thousands of individual assets. Aragon presented data from just seven mechanical subcategories that totaled more than 3,000 items: 962 air handling units, 928 heat pumps, 667 variable frequency drives, 474 fan coil units, 271 pumps, 85 chillers and 37 cooling towers.

All findings were loaded into Origin, a data analysis platform. The district authorized uploading the study's data into Origin in October 2025. The software generates five- and ten-year cost forecasts based on the condition data, according to Community Impact, which first reported the study's results.

A 'living organism'

Aragon recommended the district review the Origin dashboard every year, tag projects by priority and update the model as upgrades are completed.

"This is going to be a continuous, living organism. It has to be," Aragon said at the workshop.

Trustee Rebecca Lilley thanked staff who worked on the analysis, saying students cannot learn unless they are safe and their environment is comfortable.

Budget backdrop

The facility study arrives alongside broader financial pressure. CCISD's strategic budget team listed a "phased, data-driven district facility and school consolidation plan" among its top five recommendations for closing the district's shortfall, Community Impact reported in August. The district is also weighing a $19.1 million voter-approval tax rate election in fall 2027.

No board vote or funding timeline tied to the $124 million in identified needs has been announced. Aragon's recommendation calls for annual dashboard reviews to guide which projects move forward first.