Walton High School began the installation of its towering, brand-new video scoreboard over the weekend—insuring that the project will be complete before the Raiders kickoff the 50th anniversary season. Private funds were raised in the Walton community to replace the former electronic scoreboard and the school previewed the video board during the spring game against Cambridge in April—stationing it in the entrance of Raider Valley and providing fans with instant replay and live gameplay during the action.
The Walton High School foundation had been conducting a fundraising drive for what was deemed a new “jumbotron,” and donations were secured in April during a massive 50 year celebration that the school hosted to honor its 1975 opening and 50 years of excellence. The objective all along was to have the new scoreboard installed and in place for the start of the 2025 football season in August and head coach Daniel Brunner provided an update of the progress over the weekend to assure that the video scoreboard would be ready for the home opener.
Let’s go! Raider Valley RenoWorking to create the best high school football experience possible! #bdbo pic.twitter.com/MvbLPS9Z4E
— Daniel Brunner (@coachdbrunner) June 26, 2025
Using private funds brought clarity this past spring and the Cobb County Board of Education was asked to approve the $439,497 purchase. This cost included the removal of the existing scoreboard and replacing it with “a new multi-sport digital video scoreboard with video control and software systems on a new monopole structure.”
It is custom that funding source would be included, but the donors remained anonymous through the approval process. And Superintendent Chris Ragsdale spoke during the meeting that a new policy required the approval even though the county or SPLOST was not paying for this. That is because the all items costing more than $200,000 are also also required to get board approval—explaining that the district also requires construction and equipment items to go through its SPLOST and maintenance department since “regardless of who pays for it, it becomes school district property.”
This new board will also provide an exceptional game day experience for the many other great teams that compete in Raider Valley—including soccer, lacrosse and track and field. Walton High School won the Class 6A GADA Director’s Cup in 2025 after clinching state championships in baseball and also girls soccer.
Walton looks much different than when it first opened its doors in 1975 and also much different than several years ago when all these changes started compiling. It was the Cobb school district that spent $6.78 million to construct a new baseball field and tennis courts on Pine Road as part of Walton’s campus rebuild project, as well as $5.65 million to acquire property there.
At the same time, the softball field was relocated to the former baseball field on Raider Mountain and another $1 million for a pedestrian bridge on Bill Murdock Road to the new sports complex. Those projects, along with a new campus classroom building that opened in 2017 and a new gymnasium and performing arts theatre that opened in 2020, were funded with SPLOST revenues.
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