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Robert E. Lee High School was established in 1928, during the Jim Crow-era, and named in honor of Robert E. Lee, the military commander of the Confedererate Army. [3] It opened as a segregated school for white students; Mexican students were not allowed until later while Black students were not allowed to attend until the Fall of 1967. [3]
Margaret Long Wisdom High School (Houston, Texas) Dr. Percy L. Julian High School (Montgomery, Alabama) Staunton High School (Staunton, Virginia) Legacy High School (Midland, Texas) Tyler Legacy High School (Tyler, Texas) Lee Academy (South Carolina) (Bishopville, South Carolina) Upson-Lee High School, (Thomaston, Georgia)
Margaret Long Wisdom High School, formerly Robert E. Lee High School, is a publicly funded secondary school located in Southwest Houston, Texas, United States 77057. The Houston Independent School District, the 7th largest school district in the United States, operates Wisdom, a public admission school that enrolls grades 9 through 12 (ages 14–18).
Texas students were brought to tears Monday after Robert E. Lee High School was renamed Legacy of Educational Excellence High School (LEE HS). The decision arrived after the San Antonio high ...
Riverside High School. Architect Victor Earl Mark (1876–1948) designed Lee High School with William B. Ittner of St. Louis in 1926–27. Both architects also designed the similarly designed Andrew Jackson High School. [7] The school was dedicated to confederate general Robert E. Lee on his birthday, January 19, 1928. Jacksonville's three ...
Legacy of Educational Excellence (L.E.E.) High School, formerly Robert E. Lee High School, is a high school in San Antonio, Texas.A part of the North East Independent School District (NEISD), it serves portions of San Antonio, [2] all of the city of City of Castle Hills, [3] and a portion of Balcones Heights. [4]
The school opened to students for the first time on September 6, 1955, under the name Robert E. Lee High School. [5] The new school had 35 faculty members and approximately 800 students. Most of the 232 juniors and 173 seniors entering the school were transfers from Lanier, and some 354 sophomores moved up from area junior high schools .
Robert E. Lee High School was given its name upon opening in 1958 as an all-white school. After unsuccessful efforts to rename the school at the time of its racial integration in 1970 and various times after, there was a debate in the Tyler community in 2017–2018 on whether the school's name should change.