Jane Wessendorff Middle School

She started in the Richmond PTA and ended up on the State Board of Education. Jane Johnson Wessendorff was born in 1889 and moved to Richmond aged four. Volunteering at her children's school led to the presidency of the Texas Congress of Parents and Teachers in 1938, and in 1950 she was elected to the State School Board — the only woman among its 21 members.

She said she had "never dreamed" of it, and that "a woman's point of view is certainly needed in education." She twice represented Texas at the White House Conference on children and youth, and took an honorary doctorate in 1960.

Home of the Mustangs, sixth grade only, opened 1997. Principal Vanessa McClain started in the district as a paraprofessional and has spent more than twenty years working up.