Burges High School

William H. Burges High School founded in 1955 in El Paso, Texas celebrated its 50th year of teaching students in 2005. The school's prinicpal is Ernie Watts.

• William Henrey Burges was born on Nov. 12, 1867 in Seguin, Texas.

• Became a well known and respected lawer.

• Burges died of a heart attack.

• Was burried in May of 1946. He had the school, a street, and a building at the University of Texas at El Paso named in his honor.

• Costing 2 million dollars, the school's original blue plan included only 70 classrooms, a cafeteria that could hold uo 500 people, an indoor rifle range, a field house, a combined gymansium and an auditorium.

• The school sat on a 30-acre lot with a front parking lot.

• First Principal - Don Mitchet (1955 to 1968 in office)

• The first Graduating Class was in January of 1956.