Where

Clark Street is downtown Bartlett

Red Brick school building completed on September 17, 1909 housed students in grades one through eleven.

Bartlett, Texas, (Map) is located 23miles south of Temple and 45 miles north of Austin on Highway 95. The school distict is a county-line school district including portions of Bell, Williamson, and Milam counties. The District's economy is basically agricultural, most of the income being derived from the farming of grain sorghums, cotton, wheat, and corn.

The first school in Bartlett, Texas, in the late 1800's was a private school, one-room frame building, located where the Soil Conservation office stands now. The school had its private trustees and was privately owned. It was after the turn of the century that public schools came into existence. The first graduating class was in 1897: Lizzie Owens, Lucille Shrock, Jeter Wilder, Jennie Nelson, Letitia Luaghlin, Will Webster, F.S. Harris, and Legar Jones.

The District's refined average daily attendance for the 1997-98 school year is 526.225. BISD has enjoyed a steady increase in student population since the 1991-92 school year when the average was 399.00 students. The enrollment for the 1998-99 school year is 580 students. The District expects to continue to grow at a rate of 7 to 8 percent for the next several years.

District revenues for the 1997-98 school year were $ 5,535,021.96. Expenditures for the same year were $3,610.957.23. The district currently is under a $2 billion bond to complete the construction of the new high school complex, to include 8 classrooms, a physical education complex and a music complex.

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