Frisco ISD's $691 Million 2018 Bond Program on Track for Full Spending by 2027

Frisco ISD's $691 million 2018 bond program is expected to be fully spent by 2027, roughly a year past the original planning horizon, after construction cost pressures and strategic project reprioritization pushed the timeline forward. The district issued that update on March 13, 2026.

Voters approved the $691 million package in November 2018 to build four new schools, maintain and repair existing facilities, expand classroom technology, strengthen school security, and broaden student opportunities in academics, fine arts and athletics. The program was designed to carry the district through 72,000 students or to the end of the 2025-26 school year.

That timeline shifted as post-2020 inflation hit construction budgets hard. "Materials prices and labor costs for construction projects have increased dramatically since 2020, causing many of the 2018 bond projects to exceed their budgeted cost in the bond program," district materials state. To close the gap, Frisco ISD tapped an older funding source: with Bond Committee assistance and Board of Trustees approval, the district repurposed funds from the 2014 bond program to cover the overruns without exceeding the total debt amount authorized by voters.

The March 13 notice also cited strategic planning and project reprioritization as factors behind the revised timeline, noting the changes came "partly in response to the 2024 bond program not" completing that explanation, as the district's published notice was truncated at that point. The full context of how the 2024 bond program factored into reprioritization decisions has not been released publicly.

Significant work has already been delivered. Completed projects under the 2018 bond include Panther Creek High School, Wilkinson Middle School, and Wortham Intermediate School, alongside resurfaced elementary playgrounds, updates to 25-year-old elementary campuses, security surveillance upgrades, the Career and Technical Education Center Expansion, parking expansion and marching fields, a swim facility expansion with enlarged Athletics offices, baseball and softball facilities, new bus technology including the Transportation RFID Tracking System, and renovations to the Barrow Transportation facility.

Work still underway includes preventative maintenance and repair cycles across buildings, an LED lighting retrofit at campuses, furniture and equipment updates at older schools, campus safety features, a technology refresh, the Visual and Performing Arts Center, and the purchase of additional buses, white fleet vehicles, box trucks, and vehicle replacements.

Three projects remain on hold: Elementary School #45, a New Transportation Facility, and the Staley Middle School 25-year refresh. The district has not yet specified which month in 2027 it expects the remaining bond funds to be fully expended, nor has it released project-level cost figures or the precise dollar amounts repurposed from the 2014 bond program.