EDUCATION
Liberty Hill ISD preps for August opening of Bar W Elementary
OPENING BAR W ELEMENTARY Bar W Elementary will ocially open at 2100 Stamp Iron Ave., Leander, on Aug. 11, and days later welcome its inaugural class.
BY ZACHARIA WASHINGTON
San Gabriel neighborhoods. Students in parts of the MorningStar and Santa Rita Ranch North neighborhoods will also attend Bar W Elementary. To address the growth in the eastern portion of LHISD, the district will open Tierra Rosa Elementary in August 2024. With this opening, the district will likely readjust attendance bound- aries again. Motal said the district aims to disrupt as few neighborhoods as possible during the process. Located at 2100 Stamp Iron Ave., Leander, Bar W Elementary will have an outdoor courtyard. Classrooms will share a joint common area between the rooms that will be used for storage and restrooms. The campus will also use a lot of natural light, Motal said. Motal said the campus had two paraprofessional sta vacancies as of July 28, but they are expected to be lled before school starts.
Liberty Hill ISD’s sixth elementary campus Bar W Elementary will ocially open Aug. 11, just in time for the start of the 2023-24 school year. Bar W Elementary will have roughly 650 students enrolled, and its opening will relieve capacity concerns at Noble, Rancho Sienna and Santa Rita elementary schools. With the new school scheduled to come online this year, the board had to approve reworked elementary atten- dance boundaries in April. Director of Secondary Education Travis Motal said sta evaluated demographer reports and information from homebuilders to predict the number of students for each attendance zone. Given that Bar W Elementary is located in the Bar W Ranch neighbor- hood, students living there will attend the new school as well as students from the Omega Ranch and Oaks of
Construction on Bar W Elementary continued over the summer ahead of its August opening.
ZACHARIA WASHINGTONCOMMUNITY IMPACT
Will host 655 students with a capacity of 800
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May 2021 voter-approved bond project
Features outdoor courtyard
Classrooms with joint common areas
Natural light throughout the campus
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