Notable Employees and Teachers
- J. Don Boney, former administrator
- Lyndon B. Johnson, a teacher who became the 36th President of the United States
- Laura Bush, a teacher at Kennedy Elementary School who later became the First Lady of the United States
- Alberto Gonzales, chair of the Commission for District Decentralization, later became United States Attorney General
- Edison E. Oberholtzer, former superintendent, founder and first president of the University of Houston
- Rod Paige, former superintendent, became the United States Secretary of Education
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