page_title: Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District
section_title: Combined districts
hierarchical_section_title: Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District / History / Combined districts
caption_attribution_description: English: L. D. Bell High School Español: Escuela Preparatoria L.D. Bell
context_page_description: Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District is a K-12 public school district based in Bedford, Texas. The district serves the city of Bedford, most of the cities of Euless and Hurst, and small parts of North Richland Hills, Colleyville, Fort Worth, and Arlington. The district operates twenty elementary schools, five junior high schools, two traditional high schools, and additional specialized facilities.
  HEB ISD offers "Schools of Choice" programs, which provide unique opportunities for students to develop skills beyond standard primary and secondary school curriculum. The district was named by Education Resource Group in 2008-2011 as the top district in the state and has been recognized for achievements in academics and student performance, music education, public relations practices, operating efficiency, and teacher salaries. In August 2018, HEB ISD was rated "A" by the Texas Education Agency, placing it in the top quintile of Texas school districts.
context_section_description: The Euless and Hurst school districts merged in 1955.  The combined district served 1,418 students and grew to almost 2,300 students in the next two years.
  In 1955, Lawrence D. Bell High School also known as L.D. Bell was founded.
  In 1958, the residents of the Bedford School District voted to merge with the Hurst-Euless School District by 212 to 189. (Similar attempts to combine the cities themselves have not succeeded.) The tri-city district served 3,116 students during its first year, including 68 high school seniors, at seven schools:
  
  
   
  Bell High School (at the current site of Central Junior High)
  Bedford Elementary (the afore-mentioned Bedford School, now City of Bedford property)
  South Hurst (no longer district property)
  North Hurst (now Hurst Junior High)
   
  Mosier Valley Elementary (now a community building)
  Euless Elementary (now South Euless Elementary)
  West Elementary (now West Hurst Elementary).
   
  Later that school year, North Euless Elementary opened and Pennington Field was completed. The next decade brought Oakwood Terrace Elementary (1962) Wilshire Elementary (1964), the current L.D. Bell High School campus (1965), Donna Park Elementary (1966), Midway Park Elementary (1967), Bell's Driver's Education Facility (1968), and in 1969 Trinity High School, Bell Manor Elementary and Hurst Hills Elementary.  Racial integration began in the summer of 1965 in a Head Start class. HEB ISD desegregated in 1968.
caption: L. D. Bell High School
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