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Terlingua area students. From the 1960s there was consideration of establishing a high school for
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The high school opened in 1996 in temporary buildings. Pressly stated "By most standards, the new facility is tiny". It had 37 students upon opening. San
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reader donated 320 acres (130 ha) of land to the Big Bend
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served as the high school for students from
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was published about the ordeals of students being bussed, with the roundtrip distance being 179.6 miles (289.0 km) and with transportation from the dropoff point being as much as 35 miles (56 km), a fundraising drive to build the new high school began in
December 1994. The
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with middle school students. The opening was prompted by district officials getting the financing in place to establish a high school. In 1997 the school had 45 students. Funded with donations and what Sue Ann
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174:Team name
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