AISD votes Monday on purchase of 3 land tracts for new high school, Bowie overcrowding

AUSTIN (KXAN) — On Monday, Austin Independent School District trustees are expected to approve the purchase of three different pieces of land in South Austin to build a new high school, and expand an existing one.
First, the district is considering paying $13.1 million for a 64.9-acre tract in the Goodnight Ranch Subdivision in Southeast Austin on Old Lockhart Highway. The site would eventually be home to a new high school.
The nearest high school in that area, Akins, is already overcrowde