Montgomery ISD’s enrollment declined by 1.3%—131 students—between 2024-25 and 2025-26, going from 9,864 to 9,733 students, according to the district’s fall 2025 demographics report from Zonda Demographics.

Rocky Gardiner with Zonda Demographics presented the report to MISD trustees during their Nov. 18 meeting . The data for 2025 is through the first three quarters of this year.

Gardiner said he believes school choice, for the most part, is contributing to the enrollment decline.

“We’ve seen this not just in Montgomery [ISD], we’ve seen this [in] a lot of the communities right around you, school districts that we work with,” Gardiner said. “We think that the [Texas Education Agency] will likely show an enrollment decline statewide for the first time since COVID, and really for the fir

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