BATON ROUGE - The East Baton Rouge Parish School System will build a new elementary school, intertwined with a public park, on land the board agreed Thursday to buy for almost $3.3 million.

The Advocate reported the purchase — 25 acres between Perkins Road and Ward Creek — is the result of over four years of searching for land in the historically school-scarce area of the parish.

The new elementary school will serve as a feeder for a new high school that will be built on an $8.5 million tract of land purchased earlier this year, located about a mile away off Rieger Road and just west of the intersection of I-10 and Siegen Lane.

Thursday's vote passed unanimously, according to the news outlet.