With three on-site elementaries, one on-site middle school and a high school set to open next year, Sienna Plantation in Missouri City earns an A+ on the education component of its master plan. The Johnson Development Corp. community is home to Sienna Crossing Elementary, Scanlan Oaks Elementary and the new Jan Schiff Elementary, opened in 2008. Both Sienna Crossing and Scanlan Oaks are high-performing schools, with students scoring well above their district peers on the state-mandated TAKS tests. Schiff Elementary students will take their first TAKS test this spring. Baines Middle School, a $25 million campus that opened in 2006 in Sienna Plantation, boasts strong academics and a broad range of extra-curricular choices. Technology plays a leading role at Baines, which was one of the first schools in Fort Bend to have smart boards in each classroom that can project teacher lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations, notes and more onto in-room projection screens. Students also have specific classrooms for drama; band, orchestra, ensemble and choir (with practice rooms and instrument storage); journalism; competition and practice gyms. There also are foreign language classrooms, computer labs, art classrooms, a technology lab and traditional shop and a life management lab. Student activities continue outdoors, where the Baines Longhorns can make use of a football field, weight room, four tennis courts and practice fields for baseball, softball and soccer. A series of tunnels and sidewalks within Sienna allows students to travel safely to schools. Under construction now in Sienna Plantation is Fort Bend?s much-anticipated 11th high school, on schedule to open in Fall 2010. The school will accommodate 2,400 students and is the only high school currently being built in Fort Bend. The district budgeted $71 million for the new school. But Sienna Plantation's educational landscape is not limited to public schools. Several day cares and pre-schools operate within the development and the Houston Community College System has opened a 45,000-square-foot Academic Center, the cornerstone of a 50-acre campus located in Sienna. The state-of-the-art educational facility can accommodate 2,162 students in 22 classrooms and/or laboratories, 13 lecture rooms, seven multi-purpose rooms and a science laboratory. The center also houses student services, including registration and testing, and faculty offices. As the Academic Center reaches capacity, the HCC system plans to add other buildings and specialty programs to serve community needs. Eventually, the campus will offer a full academic program as well as technology and workforce programs. This is the first full-service HCC campus to be built in the Missouri City area, which, since 1996, has been served by a storefront facility. Plus, a bonus not just for students, but for all residents, is a new Fort Bend County library, now under construction on the HCC campus. The 45,000-square-foot library will serve Houston Community College (HCC) students and the general public. The county is working in partnership with the HCC system, and the Sienna library will be the first joint-use facility in the Fort Bend County library system when it opens in the fall of 2009. The two-story facility will include public meeting rooms, staff work areas and shelving capacity for 100,000 volumes. The library will offer materials of all types, including hardcover and paperback books, audio books on CD, music CDs and DVDs, with selections appropriate for adults to infants. The library will feature the latest technological innovations, including self-checkout kiosks. For more information about building your next home in Sienna Plantation, contact Narda Temple at 281-497-4400 or narda.temple@partnersinbuilding.com.