ABILENE, TX — The Abilene Independent School District Board of Trustees has chosen new names for three elementary schools in the Key City.
In a 6-1 vote held at Thursday night’s board meeting, trustees voted to rename Lee Elementary after Robert and Sammye Stafford, who AISD referred to in a tweet as “education pioneers to African American families in Abilene.”
The name Robert and Sammye Stafford Elementary School will go into effect for the 2021-22 school year, according to AISD.
The board then voted 6-1 to rename Johnston Elementary School after Eugene Purcell. AISD says Purcell spent 37 years as a PE teacher.
