Northwest ISD Board Unanimously Locks In New High School Zones for Fall 2027

If your family is in Northwest ISD, the question of which high school your student attends starting fall 2027 now has a final answer.

The board of trustees voted unanimously to approve new high school attendance boundaries ahead of Davis High School's opening for the 2027-28 school year. The updated map is live at nisdtx.org. Type in your address and you'll see exactly where you land.

The reason for the redraw is straightforward. All three existing high schools are designed for 3,200 students, and each currently enrolls more than 3,000. Eaton is already over capacity and will receive the most relief from Davis. Without the new campus, district projections had Eaton approaching 3,400 students, with Northwest and Byron Nelson each topping 3,100.

Davis opens in the southeastern portion of the district, pulling enrollment primarily from the Eaton zone. It will launch with freshmen and sophomores and grow by one grade level each year. In its first year, Davis is expected to start with about 996 freshmen and sophomores.

Here is what the approved map does to each zone.

Davis draws from several full elementary feeder zones. Curtis Elementary and Haslet Elementary both feed entirely into Davis. The portion of Hughes Elementary south of S.H. 170 also feeds into Davis — and the final vote went further than the original proposal. Hughes Elementary students north of S.H. 170, originally slated for Byron Nelson, were also moved to Davis, meaning all of Hughes Elementary now feeds into Davis. Peterson Elementary feeds entirely into Davis as well.

Eaton got a last-minute reprieve for some neighborhoods. Bridgeview, Spring Ranch, and Lonesome Dove will remain in the Eaton feeder pattern — all three had originally been proposed to shift to Davis.

Byron Nelson and Northwest also saw adjustments. Board member Steve Sprowls moved to add the Thousand Oaks neighborhood into the Northwest High School feeder pattern; it had not been part of the original boundary plan presented Sept. 28. Communities north of Seven Hills Road in the Seven Hills Elementary zone will feed Northwest, having originally been proposed for Eaton.

The district designed these lines with stability in mind. The boundaries are built to remain in place for four years for affected areas, so students rezoned now will not face another move mid-high school career.

If your student's address changed zones, the district spelled out what happens next. Seniors may remain at their current school. Sophomores and juniors in rezoned-to-Davis zones may stay at their current school depending on attendance capacity, provided they have good attendance and behavioral standing, but district transportation will not be provided. Rising freshmen and sophomores rezoned into Davis can stay at their current high school only if they are enrolled in an academy there, attending under a staff transfer, or have a rising junior sibling remaining at that school.

The practical move right now: go to nisdtx.org, pull up the boundary map, type in your home address, and confirm which campus your student is assigned to. If the zone changed, check the district's guidance page for next steps on options and deadlines. The district committed to posting the outcome online and communicating it to all families within 24 hours of the vote. Davis opens in August 2027 — enough runway to sort out transportation, sports transfers, and program decisions before anything is locked.