Lockhart Junior High School is one of the forgotten schools of Lockhart, Texas. This news article will reveal and explain some historical information regarding this school. The history of Lockhart Junior High School will be discussed.
Now the exact timeframe of when Lockhart Junior High School was established and constructed is unknown. However Lockhart Junior High School had already been a functioning school by 1960.
Segregation had ended in Lockhart’s public schools in January 1963. Lockhart ISD was fully integrated by 1964. Lockhart Junior High School was fully integrated in 1964. Lockhart Junior High School had been educating students in grades 6 through 8 during the 1964-1965 school year. Students enrolled in grades 6, 7, and 8 were educated at Lockhart Junior High School. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/386420172/)
18.6% per cent of Lockhart's 8th graders disappeared between junior high school's in 1967 taking into account the fact that about as many children moved into town as moved away. The standard curriculum wasn't working for the type of student who dropped out Tests showed that the potential dropouts weren't below average in intelligence. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/357713395/)
Lockhart Junior High School was a part of Lockhart's fine educational programs by 1968 during the 1968-1969 school year. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/357891465/)
Expansions were made to Lockhart Junior High School with the addition of additional classrooms in the year 2002. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/357268657/)
Principal Susan Brooks led Lockhart Junior High School to recognition by the US Department of Education as one of the state's No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon schools. However in 2008, Lockhart voted to accept the resignation of Lockhart Junior High Principal Susan Brooks. The vote sparked a public outcry by parents, teachers and students who spoke passionately in support of the administrators during board meetings and in letters to the editor in the local newspaper. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/357425456/)
[Bailey started in Lockhart a week after the board voted to dismiss Assistant Superintendent Theresa Ramirez and accept the resignation of Lockhart Junior High Principal Susan Brooks, who led the school to recognition by the U.S. Department of Education as one of the state's 21 No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon schools. The vote sparked a public outcry by parents, teachers and students who spoke passionately in support of the administrators during board meetings and in letters to the editor in the local newspaper. Allen, who resigned after 16 years on the board and three months short of the end of his term, said his departure was not connected to the decision to dismiss Ramirez and Brooks or to Bailey's resignation, but rather to his growing frustration that the board wasn't "working harmoniously like we should." Allen said he resigned because of the increasing number of tense board meetings stretching into the early morning hours, as well as the tendencies of some board members at times to micromanage the district's daily operations and second-guess the superintendent's recommendations. "There were a lot of issues that we saw eye-to-eye on," Allen said of the school board.]
Lockhart Junior High School is located at 1915 City Line Road, Lockhart, Texas, US 78644.
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