Atascosa County High School - Atascosa Yearbook (Lytle, TX)

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ABXJQPN I X I K 'f RTR 5 Iffi 5'5'l53j.f: CO5 R f f , , , , VARRRLRRAR, Y, V Y Y - 1 f -links., S' A 2 N 2 L 2 2 2 HISTORY OF POTEET SCHOOLS , THE POTEET INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT wAS ESTABLISHED BY ra SPECIAL ACT DF THE LEGISLATURE IN 1913. THE TERRITORY INCLUDED wAs JUST ENOUGH T0 QUALIFY UNDER THE LAW FOR AN INDEPENDENT DISTRICT WHICH wAS AT THAT TIME sIxTEEN SQUARE MILES. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF IT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT WAS TO MEET A NEED CREATED BY THE ORGANIZATION IJ OF THE PCTEET TOWN SITE AND THE FAST GROWING POPULATION. PRIGR T0 THIS TIME THE FEW FAMILIES LIVING IN THIS IMMEDIATE SECTION SENT I THEIR CHILDREN TO THE OLD GATES VALLEY SCHOOL LOCATED NOHTH OF ,J PDTEET. THE GALVAN GDMMDN SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THE GATES VALLEY COMMON C SCHOOL DISTRICT WERE CONSOLIDATED WITH THE POTEET INDEPENDENT DISTRICT f'i IN 1928 AND 1930, RESPECTIVELY. IN 1929 APPROXIMATELY THREE THOUSAND ACRES OF LAND THAT INCLUDED THE HAMILTON DAIRY AND ASHLEY HARRIS N FARM WERE ANNEXED T0 THE PCTEET INDEPENDENT DISTRICT. THE DISTRICT ',a NOW CONTAINS APPHOXIMATELY FIFTY-Two SQUARE MILES DF TERRITDRY. THE SCHOOL OPERATED AS AN EIGHT MONTHS RURAL SCHOOL UNTIL 1923 - WHEN IT WAS ORGANIZED INTO A STANDARD FOUR YEAR HIGH SCHOOL. ff' CLASSIFICATION wAs GRANTED THE SCHOOL IN 192h. THE SCHOOL DISTRICT L AT THAT TIME CONTAINED THREE HUNDRED FORTYPSIX SGHOLASTICS. THERE I WERE EIGHT TEACHERS INCLUDING THE SUPERINTENDENT1 IN 193k THERE ',a WERE ONE THOUSAND DNE SCHOLASTICS AND TRANSFERS WITH SEVENTEEN TEACHERS INCLUDING THE SUPERINTENDENT. LJ A PROGRAM OF ACCHEDITING THE FULL CCURSE OF STUDY WAS EEGUN IN 1925. THE ENTIRE COURSE OF STUDY WAS ACCREDITED IN THREE YEARS WHICH WAS THE MINIMUM TIME REQUIRED UNDER THE RULES OF THE STATE - DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. IN 1928 THE POTEET HIGH SCHOOL wAs PLACED ,3 CN THE APPRDVED LIST OF THE SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS. IT HAS REMAINED on THE APPROVED LIST EACH YEAR x SINCE. THE SCHOOL HAS NEVER BEEN 'WARNEDH FOR NOT MEETING THE CCMPLETE STANDARDS DF THIS ACCREDITING AGENCY. THE CURRICULUM DF THE POTEET HIGH SCHCCL IS ADAPTED T0 SERVE . THE LOCAL NEEDS. TEN CREDITS or VCCATIGNAL AND ACTIVITY woRK ARE ri OFFERED. THE CDURSE OF STUDY INCLUDES ENGLISH, HISTORY, VCCATICNAL AGRICULTURE, HOME ECCNCMICS, SPANISH, ALGEBRA, GEGMETRY, BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY, OIVICS, TYPING, BDCHNEEPING, BUSINESS TRAINING, ORCHESTRA, La AND ExTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES. THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BUILDING WAS EREOTED IN 1912. THIS . BUILDING wAs USED FOR BOTH ELEMENTARY AND HIGH SCHDDL PURPGSES 1,3 UNTIL 1928 WHEN A HIGH SCHCCL BUILDING wAs ERECTED. A BUILDING FOR VOCATIONAL SUBJECTS WAS ERECTED IN 193L. THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF A THE SCHOOL SYSTEM IS VALUED NOW AT APPROXIMATELY S85,000.00. 2 L 2 2 P

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