Hornedo Middle School


Hornedo Middle School is a middle school located in northwest El Paso, Texas. It serves about 1,200 in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students. The school colors are navy, white, and silver. The school's current location opened to students in August 2010. Since May 2015, the principal has been Micaela Varela.

History

Hornedo Middle School is named for Manuel Diaz Hornedo, an El Paso educator, physician, public health administrator, and cancer researcher. Its original location was constructed from 1992 to 1993 to house Franklin High School's freshmen. It opened in August 1993. In 1994 Franklin moved to a larger building on the same property and Hornedo was opened for the 1994-1995 school year housing sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. In early 2007, the El Paso Independent School District decided to make Hornedo an eighth and ninth grade school, and for the 2007–2008 school year Franklin housed tenth to twelfth grade students, and Hornedo sixth and seventh grade students attended the newly built Brown Middle School, located approximately two and a half miles northwest of Hornedo. In 2008, construction began on the new Hornedo Middle School facility, which opened in 2010. The district also constructed three elementary schools at the same time.

Extracurricular offerings

The school mascot is the Tornado. In 2016 the 7th-grade football team won the Division 1 district championship with no points scored against them.
Hornado's Tech Club has won Best in State at the Texas State Technology Student Association Competition and Conference for several years running in the 2010s.