Editing Seagoville, Texas (section)

==Education==

===Primary and secondary schools===

====Public schools====

Portions of Seagoville are within three separate [[independent school districts]].<ref>"[http://www.seagoville.us/DocumentCenter/Home/View/283 Official Zoning Map]." City of Seagoville. Retrieved on June 9, 2016.</ref>

=====Dallas Independent School District=====

Almost all of the Dallas County portion of Seagoville is served by the [[Dallas Independent School District]]. The area is within the Board of Trustees District 4.<ref>"[http://www.dallasisd.org/about/trusteemaps/Trustee42006.pdf Trustee District 4 with School Locations]."  [[Dallas Independent School District]]. Retrieved on November 24, 2008.</ref> Portions of Seagoville are zoned to Central Elementary School, Seagoville North Elementary School, and Seagoville Elementary School.<ref>"[http://www.dallasisd.org/cms/lib/TX01001475/Centricity/Domain/78/seagonorth.pdf PROPOSED 2012-13 Seagoville North ES Zone]." ([https://web.archive.org/web/20130617204612/http://www.dallasisd.org/cms/lib/TX01001475/Centricity/Domain/78/seagonorth.pdf Archive]) [[Dallas Independent School District]]. Retrieved on March 11, 2013.</ref> All of the city is zoned to Seagoville Middle School (6–8), and [[Seagoville High School]] (9–12).

Seagoville North Elementary School was scheduled to open in 2012.<ref name="Newsch2008">"[http://www.dallasisd.org/bond2008/pdf/NewSchoolsNames.pdf New Schools-2008 Bond Program]." [[Dallas Independent School District]]. Retrieved on January 8, 2010.</ref> Prior to 2012, the students in the Dallas County portion were zoned to Seagoville Elementary School (at the time, grades Pre-K–2) and Central Elementary School (at the time, grades 3–5).

Seagoville Elementary, Seagoville North, and Central Elementary are within the Seagoville city limits, while Seagoville Middle and Seagoville High are in Dallas, near the city of Seagoville. Seagoville Alternative Center, an alternative school is within the city limits.

DISD maintains the Seagoville Stadium.<ref>"[http://www.dallasisd.org/cms/lib/TX01001475/Centricity/Domain/8742/Dallas%20ISD%20Athletic%20Facilities.pdf Dallas ISD – Athletic Facilities]." [[Dallas Independent School District]]. Retrieved on June 27, 2016.</ref>

Seagoville Independent School District was previously the town's school district. In 1965, the district was absorbed into the Dallas Independent School District.<ref name="Handbook"/>

=====Crandall Independent School District=====

The minuscule Kaufman County portion is served by [[Crandall Independent School District]]. The students in the Crandall portion are zoned to Wilson Elementary School, Crandall Middle School, and Crandall High School. Wilson Elementary and Crandall Middle are within the city of Crandall. Crandall High is partially in Crandall and partially in unincorporated Kaufman County.

=====Mesquite Independent School District=====

A very small portion of northeast Seagoville is within the boundaries of [[Mesquite Independent School District]]. That portion is served by Achziger Elementary School, Terry Middle School, and [[John Horn High School]] (all three schools are in Mesquite).<ref>"[http://www.mesquiteisd.org/about/maps/docs/AttendZones1213.pdf AttendZones1213.pdf]." [[Mesquite Independent School District]]. Retrieved on April 4, 2014.</ref> The area was formerly zoned to Thompson Elementary School.<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20090530063346/http://www.mesquiteisd.org/maps/AttendZones0809.pdf AttendZones0809.pdf]." [[Mesquite Independent School District]]. Retrieved on April 4, 2014.</ref>

=====History of schools=====

The first school established in Seagoville was the Brinegar School. The one-room log schoolhouse, which featured split-log seating, was constructed around 1867 in the area of the modern-day Heard Park. Professor J.T. Doss built a new school building in 1880;<ref name=Cityhist>"[http://www.seagoville.us/index.aspx?nid=100 History]." City of Seagoville. Retrieved on February 13, 2012.</ref> it was called Woodside. Another school opened in a four-frame building. A cyclone destroyed one of its rooms in 1903,<ref>Phillips, Billie Frank. ''Seagoville'' (Images of America). [[Arcadia Publishing]], 2011. {{ISBN|0738578630}}, 9780738578637. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=M1IXqS_Ms58C&pg=PA71 71].</ref> and in 1909 that school was destroyed in a fire. In 1910 a new brick high school building opened on the site of what is now Seagoville Elementary School.<ref name=Cityhist/> The building, a two-story facility with four rooms for upper grades upstairs and four rooms for lower grades downstairs, on land on North Kaufman Street was donated by Ben H. Fly. It was built for about $10,000 ($283,000 adjusted for inflation to 2022), and was known as "The High School" and "the Old Red Schoolhouse".<ref name="books.google.com">Phillips, Billie Frank. ''Seagoville'' (Images of America). [[Arcadia Publishing]], 2011. {{ISBN|0738578630}}, 9780738578637. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=M1IXqS_Ms58C&pg=PA74 74].</ref>

[[Seagoville High School]] first opened in 1928 on land purchased in 1927. This high school building later burned down, and Central Elementary School opened on the former high-school site. The current high school facility and Seagoville Middle School opened on a {{convert|22|acre|ha|adj=on}} plot of land donated by M.D. Reeves in 1952: one building opened in 1955 and the other opened in September 1958. Seagoville was in the Seagoville Independent School District until August 1964, when it merged into DISD.<ref name="books.google.com"/>

===Public libraries===

Seagoville has its own public library, the Seagoville Public Library, at 702 North [[U.S. Highway 175]].<ref>"[http://www.seagovillelibrary.org/ Welcome to the Seagoville Public Library]." ''Seagoville Public Library''. Retrieved on December 4, 2008.</ref>

===Community colleges===

The [[Texas Legislature]] defines all of Dallas County (including the vast majority of Seagoville) as being in the [[Dallas College]] (formerly Dallas County Community College or DCCCD) district. The portion in Kaufman County is within the [[Trinity Valley Community College]] district.<ref name=CommCollareas>[https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.130.htm Texas Education Code: Sec. 130.176. DALLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT SERVICE AREA. Sec. 130.205. TRINITY VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT SERVICE AREA.]</ref>