Paris ISD's New High School Campus Takes Shape on 65 Acres as Enrollment Holds Above 3,700
Paris ISD's new comprehensive high school campus, documented by project engineer Hayter Engineering, is taking shape on roughly 65 acres with a high school building, stadium, multipurpose building, agricultural and vocational building, greenhouse, and tennis courts. The build comes as district enrollment holds near 3,700 to 3,800 students, roughly flat to slightly up in recent years.
Hayter Engineering's project record describes site work for the Paris ISD high school campus, including paving, grading, drainage, and water and sewer, on the 65-acre site, with the overall project spanning the high school building, an athletic complex with stadium, a multipurpose building, an agricultural and vocational building, a greenhouse, and tennis courts. Paris High School currently operates at 2255 South Collegiate Drive, and the district's high school tier includes Paris High School and Travis High School of Choice, so the new campus represents a generational upgrade to the district's largest facility rather than a net-new campus count.
Enrollment context is steady rather than explosive. The Texas Tribune Schools Explorer records Paris ISD at 3,732 students, up 0.8% since 2016, while the National Center for Education Statistics lists 3,832 students for the 2024-25 school year. A district of eight campuses holding enrollment in that band while investing in a major new high school plant is a mature, stable market, exactly the profile that supports family housing demand without the volatility of a boom district.
What school construction signals for commercial property
Public facility investment is a confidence signal. A school district committing to a new comprehensive high school, stadium, and vocational building is betting on the community's long-term population, and it puts a large campus in service to the families that anchor residential demand. This journal's public-sector construction registry tracks Paris ISD at about six registered projects worth roughly $5.3 million, a slice of the $84.7 million of combined civic construction across the city, the school district, TxDOT, and Paris Junior College.
Location compounds the effect. The new campus sits in southeast Paris near the SE Loop 286 corridor, the same direction as the 330-unit Retreat at Forestbrook apartment plan and the Forestbrook master-planned expansion this journal has covered. A new high school, new apartments, and the loop's commercial build-out reinforce each other: rooftops create students, students anchor the district, and the district's investment de-risks the housing in between.
The read for 1905 E Price St
The property at 1905 E Price St sits in a Multi-Family Dwelling District on 1+ acre with dual road frontage, a 11,000+ SF flex asset with 12 private rooms, a commercial kitchen, laundry, and office areas. Education and family demand map directly onto its candidate uses: community training space, after-school and childcare-adjacent services, multi-family conversion, and flex office for the service businesses that follow a growing school-age population. A district investing in a new high school while holding enrollment tells an investor that the families and the demand behind a multi-family or community use are not a projection, they are already in the district's count.
Sources: Hayter Engineering, Paris ISD High School Complex project record, including site work on the 65-acre campus and project scope. Texas Tribune Schools Explorer, Paris ISD enrollment data. National Center for Education Statistics Common Core of Data, Paris ISD, 2024-25. Paris ISD campus directory for Paris High School, 2255 South Collegiate Drive. Prior Field Notes on public-sector construction in Paris and The Retreat at Forestbrook. Accessed November 2026.
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