Superintendent Martha Salazar-Zamora’s unlikely vision for a career and technical education utopia here emerged back in 2021, as she toured the site of a bankrupt oil field-services company.
A wall of windows in the former executive conference room and a private patio yielded a perfect view of the company’s one-time fiefdom: 70 acres and 11 buildings.
Karla Sandoval, the Tomball Independent School District’s head of career and technical education, who joined her boss and a real estate agent on the visit, recalled Salazar-Zamora explaining her plan to buy the property, and move some personnel into its deserted office buildings.