Little Elm Independent School District

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Little Elm Independent School District
Little Elm ISD Athletic Complex Stadium.jpg
Little Elm ISD Athletic Complex Stadium in Little Elm, Texas.
Location
Little Elm, TX
ESC Region 11
USA
District information
Type Public
MottoEngage Equip Empower
GradesPre-K through 12
SuperintendentMike Lamb
NCES District ID 4827720 [1]
Students and staff
Staff700
Athletic conference UIL Class AAAAAA
ColorsGold, Navy, and White    
Other information
MascotLobo
Website www.littleelmisd.net

The Little Elm Independent School District is a public school district in Denton County, Texas.

Contents

In 2019, the Texas Education Agency rated the District with a "B" rating . [2]

History

In 1865 a one-room log cabin was first used as one of the first attempts of public schooling in Little Elm. In 1895 the town built the King School Building to provide first through eighth grade education services. Hackberry, Little Elm and Dickson combined efforts in the 1930s to build the Little Elm Rural High School and it saw its first graduating class in 1974. In 2004, the new Little Elm High School on Walker Lane opened and the old site became Lakeside Middle School. In 2014 Prestwick STEM Academy opened its doors to K-8 students. In the fall of 2020, the district expanded yet again and opened two new middle schools, Lowell Strike Middle School and Jerry R. Walker Middle School. [3] Efforts in 2022 are being taken in order to provide funding for the construction of two more elementary schools.

Attendance area

The district includes: [4]

Schools

High school

Middle schools

Elementary schools

Grades Pre-K–5

Future schools

After the people of Little Elm voted yes for the Little Elm ISD 2022 bond, the district plans to open two new elementary schools to the district.

Former schools

High schools

  • Hackberry School

From 1876 to 1930, this school would serve students until it consolidated with the Little Elm School District and the community of Dickson to form the Little Elm Rural High School. [3]

  • Little Elm Rural High School

This school would open in 1930 as the high school for the town. It would eventually close, and students would start getting bused to Denton and Frisco high schools instead. [3]

  • Little Elm High School (Lobo Ln)

Little Elm's second high school opened on Lobo Lane in the 1970s. It served the whole district until 2004 and is now referred to as the "old Little Elm High School." The high school moved in 2005 to its current location on Walker Lane and the "old" high school became Lakeside Middle School. The building is now used for administrative, professional development, and sports purposes as the two new middle schools have now opened and Lakeside is no longer used as a school.

Middle schools

  • Little Elm Middle School

Little Elm Middle School opened in 1985 by the original Little Elm High School. It would serve students in Little Elm until 2004 as the high school moved across town, so the middle school would now occupy the old High School.

  • Lakeside Middle School

When the Little Elm High School moved, a middle school would take this place. Originally called Lakeside Junior High School, it would be the city's middle school from 2004 up to 2020 whenever Walker and Strike Middle Schools opened. It would later be replaced with an administration building that year.

Intermediate schools

  • D.H. Brent Intermediate

Opened in 2000, Brent Intermediate would serve some of the districts students from 4th-6th grade (later on shortened to 5-6) in between elementary in middle school. They would serve these students until it was closed in approx. 2011 and transformed into an elementary school.

  • Colin Powell Intermediate

After the High School was moved from Lobo Ln to Walker Ln, what was formerly the middle school would be used as an intermediate school (serving 5th and 6th grades). Later on, it would become just a 6th grade center which would feed into Lakeside Middle. It would be a 6th grade center until its closure in 2020 following the construction of the new middle schools.

  • Prestwick STEM Academy

Prestwick was originally built as a K-8 school in The Colony in 2014. It would serve students throughout 8-9 years, as a merge of an elementary and middle school. It would later on go to just a K-5 elementary school in 2020 following the opening of Strike Middle School nearby Prestwick.

Elementary schools

  • Deliah King Elementary

Deliah King Elementary was opened as a schoolhouse for the then small Little Elm around 1895 or 1896. It would serve Little Elm as an elementary school for almost 100 years. After several renovations, it would be transformed into an early learning center in 1995 and would be closed and later demolished in 2012. [3]

  • Hershel Zellars Elementary

Zellars was opened in 1995 as King was transformed. It would serve students until it transformed into an administration building in 2014. In 2022, it would later become a childcare center in 2022.

Other buildings

Athletic use

Formerly known as the Little Elm Athletic Complex, this stadium hosts home games for Little Elm High School. It also holds the location for the district rivalry Walker vs Strike middle school games; along with other athletic events for the city.

Formerly where the LEHS and Lakeside Middle School Lobos played, this field complex behind the original high school is sometimes used for athletic events.

Administration usage

Formerly the high school and middle school, it is now used for administration purposes since 2020.

Other

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References

  1. ↑ "Search for Public School Districts – District Detail for Little Elm ISD". National Center for Education Statistics . Institute of Education Sciences . Retrieved 8 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "2014 Accountability Rating System". Texas Education Agency. Archived from the original on 2015-10-25.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "District Profile / History of LEISD".
  4. ↑ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Denton County, TX" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau . Retrieved 2022-10-04.
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