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Juan Navarro Early College High School
(formerly
Sidney Lanier High School
) was established in 1961 as the sixth high school in the
Austin Independent School District (AISD)
and was originally located in the building which today houses Burnet Middle School. Lanier was named in honor of the Southern poet and Confederate veteran
Sidney Lanier
.
The current campus, opened in 1966, is located on Payton Gin Road. In 1997, Lanier was nationally recognized as a
Blue Ribbon School
, the highest honor a school could receive at the time. When it first opened, Lanier had virtually an all White student base with a highly active
FFA
chapter, but over the years it has become a primarily
Mexican-American
school with over 85% of its students being Hispanic.
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The AISD Board of Trustees voted on March 24, 2019, to rename the school Juan Navarro High School. Juan Navarro was a 2007 graduate who died in Afghanistan from an
improvised explosive device
in July 2012.
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