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Members of 14 consecutive Carver High School graduating classes were on hand Tuesday to see the baton of their school heritage passed to a current generation.

Members of 14 consecutive Carver High School graduating classes were on hand Tuesday to see the baton of their school heritage passed to a current generation.

Less than halfway to its August 2025 finish date, the new Waco High School is progressing from dreams and blueprints to the physical shape of roofs, walls and hallways.

Even more changes will follow once work wraps up, as the district prepares to draw new attendance zones splitting Alta Vista between South Waco and Kendrick elementary schools.

The weeks ahead will see major milestones for the remaining schools under construction in the $355 million Waco Independent School District bond issue, and the start of construction on others.

The concrete shell of a performing arts center towers above steel framework and cinderblock walls, the eye-catching focal point of a $140.5 million Waco High School midway through its construction.

A permit is in place for an apartment and commercial development on Elm Avenue. Union Grove food hall is filling up. Halloween may see record spending, and more business news.

High construction costs and inflation have pushed the construction budgets for a new Kendrick and renovated South Waco Elementary Schools to $19 million more than their original anticipated costs.

Waco ISD is getting its first look at the planned designs for Kendrick and the renovated South Waco elementary schools. Theyre final two projects from WISDs $355 million bond issue.

Architects recommended cost-saving design changes to South Waco Elementary Schools renovation and the construction of a new Kendrick Elementary School.