The Texas School District That Can’t Stop Growing

By the middle of September, Kenzie Kingston has already shown half a dozen new students around her TikTok-famous campus. The senior and student ambassador at Walnut Grove High School, in Prosper, about 35 miles north of downtown Dallas, is used to hearing them react with a single word: wow. From the outside, Walnut Grove, which opened in 2023, is a block-long wall of two-story beige brick, broken in the middle by the building’s neoclassical-style entrance. Inside is a soaring atrium that contains the school’s open-concept library, furnished with blond-wood bookcases and sleek navy-and-gray armchairs.Walking down one sunlight-flooded hallway after another, Kingston opens the door to robotics and manufacturing labs, a vast commercial kitchen for culinary education, and the broadcast studio where a student-produced newscast is filmed.…

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