by Andy Adams | Dec 6, 2018 | Day in the Life, Homepage Featured, Lufkin ISD
Saul Reyna Carreon loves his job and loves hands-on work. He is the Lead HVAC employee for the district and responsible for the HVAC systems on all campuses and administration buildings. Although he loves to work, it can’t be an easy job keeping 8,300 students and...
by Sheila Adams | Dec 5, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Lufkin ISD
Congratulations to Ramona Mitchell! Ramona Mitchell, nurse at Brookhollow Elementary, received the Lufkin ISD Purple Heart of Excellence Award for December. The award is given monthly to a nurse who has demonstrated extraordinary care of students, detailed...
by Sheila Adams | Dec 5, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Lufkin ISD
Vercie McMullen has been named as the new Executive Director of the Lufkin Education Foundation after the previous Executive Director, Vickie Evans, announced that she would be leaving the foundation to take another position with the district. Mrs. McMullen has more...
by Sheila Adams | Nov 29, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Lufkin ISD
This year has Hackney Primary staff and students seeing double with five sets of identical female twins. The twins range in age from three to four-years-old and are not all in their sisters’ classes. When asked if they like being twins, the consensus was a...
by Sheila Adams | Nov 29, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Lufkin ISD
Being born and raised in Tamaulipas, Mexico, Angelina San Juan was not afforded the opportunity to go to school, but now as head custodian at Brandon Elementary, she’s the first one to open the building every morning. She said, “I never went to school. It’s always...
by Sheila Adams | Nov 29, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Lufkin ISD
Santa came early to visit the students at the HOSTS (Help One Student to Succeed) reading lab at Brandon Elementary. HOSTS is a nationally recognized mentoring program that pairs a student who needs help in reading with a community member who wants to make a...
by Sheila Adams | Nov 29, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Lufkin ISD
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) has designated Lufkin High School as an instructional site for Angelina College. Essentially, this designation will allow Lufkin High School the flexibility to offer more selections of...
by Andy Adams | Nov 18, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Superintendent's Corner
As I reflect on this season of thanksgiving, I feel very thankful to live in a community that values education and sees the need for investing in the future of our students. As evident by the passing of the bond election in May, we have a community that wants what’s...
by Sheila Adams | Nov 15, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Lufkin ISD
Back row from left: Kimberly Ray, Charlene Grisby Front row from left: Adan Flores, Rachel Dollison, Cindy Nerren, Angela Dean dd’s Discounts has donated more than $5,500 in the past three years for Trout Primary students to have new books. Cindy Nerren,...
