Walcott Independent School District

Last updated September 26, 2019

Walcott Independent School District is a private school district in southwestern Deaf Smith County, Texas (USA).

A school district is a special-purpose district that operates local public primary and secondary schools in various nations.

Deaf Smith County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,372. The county seat is Hereford, which is known as the "Beef Capital of the World". The county was created in 1876 and later organized in 1890.

Texas is the second largest state in the United States by area and population. Geographically located in the South Central region of the country, Texas shares borders with the U.S. states of Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the southwest, and has a coastline with the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast.

The district has one school - Walcott Elementary - that serves students in grades pre-kindergarten through six. Secondary school students living in the district attend Hereford Junior High and Hereford High School.

The Walcott Elementary was named a National Blue Ribbon School in 2004 and 2018.^[1]

In 2009, the school district was rated "exemplary" by the Texas Education Agency.^[2]

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) is a branch of the state government of Texas in the United States responsible for public education. The agency is headquartered in the William B. Travis State Office Building in downtown Austin. Mike Morath, formerly a member of the Dallas Independent School District's board of trustees, was appointed commissioner of education by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Dec. 14, 2015, and began serving on Jan. 4, 2016.

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References

↑ "National Blue Ribbon Schools Program: 2018 National Blue Ribbon Schools" (PDF). United States Department of Education. Retrieved January 18, 2019.
↑ "2009 Accountability Rating System". Texas Education Agency. Archived from the original on 2015-10-25.

External links

Walcott ISD - Official site.

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[1] "National Blue Ribbon Schools Program: 2018 National Blue Ribbon Schools" (PDF). United States Department of Education. Retrieved January 18, 2019.

[2] "2009 Accountability Rating System". Texas Education Agency. Archived from the original on 2015-10-25.