Hornsby-Dunlap High School is one of the forgotten high schools in Austin, Texas that has been forgotten. Not so much history about this school is known. Hornsby-Dunlap High School was a high school operated by Hornsby-Dunlap Common School District from 1907 to 1924. 
Mr. J. N. Littlepage donated land to Hornsby-Dunlap Common School District for a school along Webberville Road in 1906. Hornsby-Dunlap Common School District quickly snagged up that land. On this land is where Hornsby-Dunlap Elementary School and Hornsby-Dunlap High School would be located at.
Hornsby-Dunlap High School was the first high school in Texas to ever have been built in a “common school district”. This school was first named Hornsby-Dunlap Consolidated High School and was later renamed to Hornsby-Dunlap High School. This historical tidbit of information made headlines in the Austin Weekly newspaper in 1906. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/366312324/)
HORNSBY HIGH SCHOOL DEDICATED BY RALLY FIRST HIGH SCHOOL TO BE BUILT IN TEXAS IN A COMMON SCHOOL DISTRICT IS AN ADVANCE UPON OLD PRACTICE.
Professor E. M. Bralley, chief clerk of the state department of education, went out to Hornsby, Travis County, last night and delivered the principal address at the dedication of the new Hornsby-Dunlap Consolidated High School. The erection and operation of the high school is a decided step for the advancement of education in this state, for the common and country school districts. This is the first high school ever built in the state in a common school district. Two or three of the common school districts of Hornsby, Dunlap and another district of that neighborhood got together and levied a special tax for the building of a high school there which will be of a sufficient grade for its graduates to become affiliated with the University of Texas. This does not mean the discontinuation of the primary or common schools in those common school districts, but it means that pupils living in the country will be enabled to get a high school education without their parents sending them to Austin or another larger city where there are high schools. This high school means the same thing as the high school in this city and the primary schools are compared with the ward schools in a larger city.
S. B. Orton was elected to be principal of the Hornsby-Dunlap Consolidated School in 1908. Mr. Orton from the University of Texas was responsible for teaching the high school department of Hornsby-Dunlap Common School District. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/366370916/)
“Principal and Teachers of Consolidated School Chosen. S. B. Orton was elected to the principalship of the Hornsby-Dunlap Consolidated School at a meeting of the board of school trustees held this week. Mr. Orton from the University of Texas, securing a B. A. degree and a permanent teacher's certificates. He is recognized as one of the strong school men in Texas and the consolidated school at Hornsby-Dunlap is expected to make rapid advances under his direction. The faculty will consist of Mr. Orton, high school department; Miss Maud Douglass, Intermediate, and Mrs. Lola Orton, primary.”
Mrs. Mildred Giles became principal of Hornsby-Dunlap High School in 1919. Miss Lucile Manor was hired to be a teacher at Hornsby-Dunlap High School also. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/384523833/)
“Mrs. Mildred Giles and Miss Lucile Manor, both of Austin, will leave for Hornsby's Bend Sunday to teach in the Hornsby-Dunlap High School. They will live with Mrs. Aaron Taylor. Miss Giles is to be the principal of the school which will open Monday.”
Hornsby-Dunlap High School had an affiliation with the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (Texas A & M) at one point.
Hornsby-Dunlap High School shut down in 1967 when Hornsby-Dunlap Consolidated School was consolidated into Del Valle ISD. Students continued classes at Del Valle High School. The exact date of when the high school was closed and torn down is unknown.
Hornsby-Dunlap High School was located at 13101 Webberville Road, Austin, Texas, US 78725.
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