New school to be named after Angela Leal

By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ
Staff Writer
reporter@sbnewspaper.com

The new elementary school under construction on FM 732 in San Benito will be named after longtime educator Angela Gerusa Leal. (Courtesy photo)

The San Benito CISD Board of Trustees made the decision to name the new elementary school currently under construction on FM 732 after Angela Gerusa Leal on Tuesday night during a school board meeting at the J. F. Barron Administration Building.

The decision came after a committee recommended three finalists to the school board, and the board voted 5-2 for the school to be named after Leal.

The names of the three finalists were Dr. Anita H. Garcia, Antolina A. Balboa, and Leal.

“First of all, I have to say that all three names, all three candidates were very well-deserving in the naming of the school. It was a tough decision to make, but we had to pick a name. I felt all of them were very worthy of being named,” said School Board President Oscar Medrano. “As far as Mrs. Leal, I just felt that her life and education told a story, a story that I think would resonate very well with the kids in the area where the school is being built, and the community and the country area because it’s going to be a country school.”

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