Navarro School

Duane's take

Here's how the official marker tells it, and I'll do my best to do it justice. Way out in Guadalupe County, near the community of Geronimo, there's a school with roots that go back to 1889. That's where our story starts.

The original Navarro School, named for early Texas leader Jose Antonio Navarro, was a one-room building. Just one room, sitting about one-half mile northeast of where the school stands today. One room, one building, doing what it could for the students of the area.

Now, a single room can only hold so much ambition, and before long, sometime in the early 1900s, a second structure was added. The school was growin'. Then came 1912, and Navarro took a serious step forward.

The Navarro Agricultural High School was built, and they put it on land purchased from a man named L. H. Heinemeyer.

That was a proper school now, something the community could point to with pride. Decades passed, generations of students came and went through those doors, and by 1953 it was time again. New elementary and high school facilities went up right here on this site, replacing what had stood before.

Sports took root. Extra-curricular activities found their place. The school kept growing, kept serving.

And when that marker went up in 1989, Navarro School had already been looking after the students of the Geronimo area for over a century. One room in 1889. A century of children later.

Some things are built to last.

What the marker says

The original Navarro School, named for early Texas leader Jose Antonio Navarro, was a one-room building located about one-half mile northeast of this site in 1889. A second structure was added in the early 1900s. In 1912 the Navarro Agricultural High School was built on land purchased from L. H. Heinemeyer. It was replaced in 1953 by new elementary and high school facilities on this site. Sports and other extra-curricular activities were established as the school grew. For over a century Navarro School has served students in the Geronimo area. (1989)