Fort Davis High School

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Fort Davis High School is a high school in Fort Davis, Texas. It is the only public secondary school in Jeff Davis County, Texas. The school is operated by the Fort Davis Independent School District. Its sports teams are called the Indians. The Indian football program competed in the Texas State Six-Man Championship in 2003, but lost to Strawn.

Fort Davis, like other Texas communities, formerly had racially-segregated schools[1], with the "white" school on the site of the present-day Fort Davis High School. The "Mexican school" was located at the current site of Dirks-Anderson Elementary School in Fort Davis.

[edit] References

• National Parks Service - Fort Davis Administrative History - Chapter Two: Closing a Fort, Preserving a Memory: Private Power and Public Initiative in Fort Davis, 1890-1941 Discusses racially segregated schools in Fort Davis.

[edit] External links

• Fort Davis High School. Official site.