Sugar Land Independent School District


Sugar Land Independent School District #17 was a school district headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas.

History

It was created under a state law that was approved and became law on March 18, 1918. Under state law, there was a 7-person board, and at least two members were required to be women. The first school board president was M. R. Wood, the designer of Sugar Land's first school, and Mary Anna Collins Woods was the first superintendent. Sugar Land's first public school had opened in 1912.
In the years 1924-1930 Carrin Foreman, the sister of Percy Foreman, was the district superintendent. When she married she gave up her position.
It was dissolved in 1959 when it merged with the Missouri City Independent School District to form the Fort Bend Independent School District.
the only remaining building operated by this district is the Sugar Land Auditorium, which as of that year is also the final public building that remained from the era when Sugar Land was a company town of Imperial Sugar.

Schools

Schools were segregated racially.
For white children and others not black:
For black children: