[3] The district serves over 34,000 pre-kindergarten through twelfth-grade students in a diverse district located 20 miles (32 km) north of downtown Houston in a suburban area of Harris County that spans 57 square miles (150 km2).

[8] These demographic changes caused tension as, in 2007, residents of Northgate Forest unsuccessfully attempted to withdraw from Spring ISD.

[9] In 2005 there were plans to rearrange the attendance boundaries of several elementary schools due to higher than anticipated growth.

[14] Northgate Forest, a subdivision, garnered attention all over the Houston area when 190 residents filed a petition to withdraw from Spring Independent School District and join neighboring Klein Independent School District.

The petition for detachment began circulating in December 2006, after Northgate residents helped defeat a bond issue for the district that November.

Jim McIngvale, an area resident and salesman also known as "Mattress Mac", said that he disagreed with the proposal.

Klein ISD stated that the petition did not fulfill all the legal requirements stipulated by the Texas Education Agency for the detachment to be valid.

[19][20][21] Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Texas the district delayed the high school boundary changes until at least 2022-2023.

[36] In 2019 the district announced plans to open TeachUp Spring, a teacher training center, in an ex-ITT Tech facility along Interstate 45 (North Freeway), in May of that year.

[13] In the 2011-2012 school year the passing rates for the 10th grade Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) tests for Spring ISD were as follows: 92% for social studies, 90% in English, 65% in Science, and 62% in mathematics; the English and social studies percentages were similar to the state averages while the other two were about 10 points below the state averages.

[40] The Spring ISD Police Department, established in 1991, moved to its current location at 420 Lockhaven Dr., Houston, TX 77073 in 2018.

The police department was previously located at 210 North Forest Blvd and 15330 Kuykendahl Road.