[10] Since 2006, Children at Risk, a non-profit organization based in Houston, publishes its "Annual School Rankings" which ranks Houston metropolitan area schools using a formula going beyond the state’s school accountability system, using traditional indicators such as whether students passed state exams, drop-out and graduation rates along with less commonly used indicators such as counseling and poverty intervention.

In response to this, CFISD did so by adding bullet resistant glass, man traps, lock-down buttons, intruder locks for classroom doors, walls to schools that were previously open-concept, and signs that remind people to not leave their doors open for many of their schools.

[13] In 2022 the district began requiring parental permission for students to check books out of school libraries.

Of them, 42.5% were Hispanic, 31% were White, 15.5% were Black, 8% were Asian, and others included Native Americans and people of two or more races.

[16] In 2009, in the midst of budget deficits caused by decreased state funding, the board voted to only have school bus services for a resident who lives more than two miles from his or her school, as opposed to having service for residents living more than one mile away.

The district had spent $9 million to build its previous headquarters on Windfern Road, which had opened in 1978.