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Southwest Legacy High School is a senior high school in San Antonio, Texas, with a Von Ormy postal address. It is a part of the Southwest Independent School District.

Financed by a bond passed in 2012, it had a cost of $68 million [1] and has a capacity of 3,200 students. [2] It opened in 2017, [3] on August 28. In the period 1962–2017 it was the first traditional comprehensive high school, operated by a school district, in southern San Antonio, [1] as well as, from 1977 to 2017, the first public high school established south of U.S. Route 90. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Malik, Alia; Caruba, Lauren (2017-08-28). "All of Bexar County's students now back in school". San Antonio Express News . Retrieved 2019-05-27.
  2. "Legacy High School Album Title". Southwest Independent School District. Retrieved 2019-05-27.
  3. 1 2 "New Southwest ISD high school to open for 2017-18 school year". KSAT. 2017-08-10. Retrieved 2019-05-27.
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