Faced with another failure to pass a school construction bond, the Lake Washington School District will look at other options to handle school crowding. The district includes schools in Sammamish.

“Without this funding, we will have to begin reviewing other options immediately for housing our rapidly growing student enrollment,” said school Superintendent Dr. Traci Pierce said. “The good news is that so many families want to move to our area to attend our excellent schools. I am very proud of the work of our district and schools.”

The district needed a 60 percent “yes” vote on its $404 million April 22 measure to pass. It received about 52 percent “yes” vote. An earlier measure, to raise $755 million, also failed and districts only can only go to the voters twice in the same year.

If it had passed, the $404 million bond would have funded three new elementary schools, a new middle school, a new westside STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) focused school on the Juanita High School, the rebuilding of Juanita and an addition to Lake Washington High School. The bond also would have left some funds for future capital projects.

LWSD communications director Kathryn Reith said the district has already made temporary boundary changes this school year to bus students from Norman Rockwell and Albert Einstein elementary schools in north Redmond to Horace Mann Elementary School, also in Redmond, which now has four new portables to accommodate the influx of students.

In addition, Reith said, the district will need to be creative in figuring out where to put students now in elementary school students in Kirkland as there will not be a new one built.

The next time the district will be able to put a bond measure on the ballot will be February 2015, Reith said.