A new clothes closet made up of community donations will open this month at the Simon Middle School campus, just in time for the first day of school.

Hays CISD School Board Trustee Esperanza Orosco led the charge for the new program. She was a teacher with the district when she first saw families of her students struggling to clothe their children for the school day, she said.

“Sometimes there were kids who came with shoes that didn’t fit, that hurt them. Sometimes they’d come wi...