About Walnut Springs ISD

The Walnut Springs School was organized about 1900 in a two-story brick college building on land donated by Texas Ranger Buck Barry. Around 1920 the building burned and bonds were voted to build a new two-story brick building. In the late 1930s a gym was built from materials salvaged from the abandoned Texas-Central Roundhouse. Enrollment declined during the 1950s. When the nuclear power plant in Glen Rose began construction enrollment began to increase. Bonds were voted and a new classroom building was built in 1976. More bonds were voted in 1985. A new classroom building and a new gym were constructed and the original structures were demolished. Later a new vocational building was built. In 1996 an instructional facility grant allowed for remodeling existing structures, adding classrooms and connecting the existing classroom building to the gymnasium. The D.E. and Donnie Edwards Sports and Educational Center has been in use since 2003. It is a Physical Education Facility / Fine Arts facility with a gymnasium as well as stage and auditorium.

Academics have always been a priority in Walnut Springs with graduates successful in all areas of society. Changing demographics with student population growing and no longer being just farm, ranch, and small-town kids has made the task more challenging.