Overview
- District leaders held a ribbon-cutting on Oct. 10, with classes scheduled to begin Oct. 20 for third through fifth graders.
- The two-story, 116,000-square-foot school includes 36 classrooms and can serve about 800 students.
- A sculpted oak tree with two large branches and 19 smaller ones anchors the memorial, while safety measures include a check-in vestibule, keyless entry, door-prop alarms, bullet-resistant glass, eight-foot privacy gates and integrated cameras.
- The project was funded by roughly $60–62 million from donations, grants and the state, including $10 million from H‑E‑B and the Butt family and $15 million from Texas, with any remaining funds directed to other district needs.
- The campus sits a few miles from the closed Robb Elementary site, which has no demolition timeline, and legal cases over the 2022 police response continue with Adrian Gonzales set for trial Jan. 5 and Pete Arredondo’s case on hold.