The Consolidation of New Hope, Word, and Union Hill took place in 1925. Union Hill was then classified as a tenth grade school. Their prospective high school graduates went either to Happy or Tulia to get their senior year. That was before Texas went to the twelve grade system.

In 1937 the trustees were E. C. Partlow, J. W. Cox, J. D. New, DeWitt Parker, Dick Pair, and Leslie Raymond.

Teachers in 1937 were Charles S. King, Miss Ermine Thomas, and Miss Margaret Evans.

Union Hill consolidated with Tulia, Happy and Kress in 1947.

LAKEVIEW
Lakeview school was organized in 1890. It was located ten miles west of Tulia on the Dimmitt Highway. The building was placed there in 1902.

Prior to that time the school house was located one mile east and two miles north of the final location. It was a one teacher school until 1916, and from then on it was a two-teacher school. The land on which the school house is situated (1947) was donated by G. F. Tomlinson. In 1937 the trustees were J. M. Tomlinson, Royal Crawford and C. T. Caraway. Teachers in 1937 were Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Wilmeth.

The arrangement of twenty-four rural schools seemed to maintain their Status Quo through World War II and a year or two after. Then, the loss of scholastics, larger farm units, shortage of labor, shortages of teachers, the demand for accredited high schools, and the fact that after an international war in which we are heavily involved communities seldom if ever return to their pre-war status. In the meantime, the citizens came to realize that if rural schools were to prepare students to meet competition in a complex industrial and commercial society, of