Aledo ISD and Walsh announced a donation of nearly 13 acres fronting Quail Meadow Drive in the Walsh community for a future elementary school site, the second elementary site the Walsh family has given the district, The Community News reported Oct. 15

Per the story, the district takes the land at "little impact (only closing costs)" on the land budget in the 2023 bond. The first Walsh donation became Mary D. and F. Howard Walsh Elementary, which opened in August 2017. In the last two years the district has also acquired 40 acres from the Beggs Ranch in Willow Park's ETJ and a 12-acre elementary site near Kelly Road and Bear Creek Road in Kelly Ranch Estates, and it owns about 100 acres northeast of McKinney Elementary and about 20 acres next to the Daniel Ninth Grade Campus. No school is scheduled: "there is no determination being made about the timing or location of the next AISD campus," the story says. Superintendent Dr. Susan Bohn: "We have made land acquisition a priority because of our continued growth and the rising prices of land."

Source: The Community News, "It's elementary," by Mercedes Mayer, Oct. 15