Terlingua Common School District

Terlingua Common School District (TCSD) is a public school district based in unincorporated Brewster County, in the U.S. state of Texas. Its only school, Big Bend High School, is located adjacent to the Study Butte census-designated place, and with a Terlingua postal address.{{cite web|url=http://penick.tea.state.tx.us/SchoolDistrictLocator/ISD/terlingua.asp|title=Terlingua Common School District|publisher=Texas Education Agency|date=2001-03-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010306064442/http://penick.tea.state.tx.us/SchoolDistrictLocator/ISD/terlingua.asp|accessdate=2021-06-16|archive-date=2001-03-06|quote=2281 ROADRUNNER CIRCLE TERLINGUA TX 79852}} Therefore the school is outside of the following:

{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st48_tx/place/p4870688_study_butte/DC10BLK_P4870688_000.pdf|title=2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP (INDEX): Study Butte CDP, TX|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|accessdate=2021-06-17}} - Pages [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st48_tx/place/p4870688_study_butte/DC10BLK_P4870688_001.pdf 1] and [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st48_tx/place/p4870688_study_butte/DC10BLK_P4870688_002.pdf 2] (see page 2, where the school is just below) - It is also outside of the [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st48_tx/place/p4872248_terlingua/DC10BLK_P4872248_000.pdf Terlingua CDP] (divided into six pages [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st48_tx/place/p4872248_terlingua/DC10BLK_P4872248_001.pdf 1] through [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st48_tx/place/p4872248_terlingua/DC10BLK_P4872248_006.pdf 6]

The district, which also serves Lajitas,{{cite news|last=Thomas|first=Les|title=Last bastion of silence: Town enjoys lack of TV|newspaper=Fort Worth Star-Telegram|date=1976-12-19|page=2B}} - [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79711022/for-lajitas-texas/ Clipping] from Newspapers.com. It states the students attend Terlingua Common School. has one school — Big Bend High School, for grades K-12.{{cite web|url=https://txschools.gov/schools/022004001/overview|title=Big Bend HS|publisher=Texas Education Agency|accessdate=2021-06-16}}{{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?ID=484239007193|title=Big Bend HS|publisher=National Center for Education Statistics|accessdate=2021-06-16}} Previously it was administratively divided between Big Bend High and Terlingua Elementary{{cite web|url=http://penick.tea.state.tx.us/SchoolDistrictLocator/ISD/terlingua.asp|title=Terlingua Common School District|publisher=Texas Education Agency|date=2001-03-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010306064442/http://penick.tea.state.tx.us/SchoolDistrictLocator/ISD/terlingua.asp|accessdate=2021-06-16|archive-date=2001-03-06}} (Grades K–8{{cite web|last=Pressly|first=Sue Ann|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-aug-10-mn-21103-story.html|title=Town's New High School Makes Grade With Students|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=1997-08-10|accessdate=2021-06-16}}). Previously the elementary school was called the "Terlingua Common School".

History

As of 2007, the Texas State Energy Conservation Office awards Terlingua ISD money due to the colonias served by the district.{{cite web |url=http://www.seco.cpa.state.tx.us/colonias.htm |title=Texas Colonias |website=www.seco.cpa.state.tx.us |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080330071201/http://www.seco.cpa.state.tx.us/colonias.htm |archive-date=30 March 2008 |url-status=dead}}

In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency.{{cite web|url = http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/perfreport/account/2009/index.html|title = 2009 Accountability Rating System|publisher = Texas Education Agency|url-status = dead|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20151025190535/http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/perfreport/account/2009/index.html|archivedate = 2015-10-25}}

Operations

In 1996 Sam Howe Verhovek of The New York Times wrote that "The district is still extremely poor, though it is growing".{{cite news|last=Verhovek|first=Sam Howe|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/27/us/end-near-for-179-mile-bus-trip-to-high-school.html|title=End Near for 179-Mile Bus Trip to High School|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1996-05-27|accessdate=2021-06-16}} - Alternate title: "[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1454&dat=19960527&id=D-syAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dxUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3668,4847693 Longest school bus ride about to end]", in Wilmington Star-News, May 27, 1996, page 3A. The article mentions Panther Junction as an area served by the high school, but it has a separate elementary district.

Service area

Its service area includes Terlingua, Study Butte, and Lajitas. Big Bend High School also takes high-schoolers within the San Vicente Independent School District, which serves residents from K through 8.{{cite web|url=https://oese.ed.gov/jessi-milam/|title=Jessi Milam|publisher=U.S. Department of Education|accessdate=2021-06-16}} San Vicente ISD is based in Panther Junction,{{cite book|last=Tucker|first=Albert Briggs|title=Ghost Schools of the Big Bend|publisher=Howard Payne University Press|year=2008|isbn=9780615191348|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=U6gzbDGUB6gC&pg=PA26 26]}} and Big Bend High school accordingly serves Panther Junction as well.

Prior to fall 1996 Alpine High School of the Alpine Independent School District served as the high school for students from Terlingua CSD, with the bus ride being the longest in the United States. In 1996 Big Bend High School opened. San Vicente began sending students to Big Bend High when it was established in 1996; San Vicente itself does not have enough of a taxation base, as of 1996, to establish its own high school.{{cite web|last=Trotter|first=Andrew|url=https://www.edweek.org/education/take-note/1996/09/11|title=Take Note|work=Education Week|date=1996-09-11|accessdate=2021-06-16}}

References

External links

[http://www.terlinguacsd.com/ Terlingua CSD]
{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st48_tx/schooldistrict_maps/c48043_brewster/DC20SD_C48043.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Brewster County, TX|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|accessdate=2022-06-22}} - Has boundary of the district - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/sch_dist/st48_tx/c48043_brewster/DC10SD_C48043_001.pdf 2010 Map]

Category:School districts in Brewster County, Texas