Claudia Taylor "Lady Bird" Johnson High School opened on August 28, 2008 for its inaugural year to address the growth and expansion in the north eastern communities of San Antonio, Texas. The school relieved Ronald Reagan High School, another high school in the North EastIndependent School District. The school sits high on top of one of the tallest hills in Bexar County, and overlooks some of San Antonio. The school mascot is the jaguar and the school flower is the bluebonnet. In 2008 during the first year, the community planted bluebonnets and wildflowers around the campus.
Facilities
Facilities include:
60 general instruction classrooms
20 Science classrooms
19 Career and Technology classrooms
16 Special Education classrooms
3 Art classrooms
3 JROTC classrooms and a separate JROTC Rifle Range and quadrangle
2 air-conditioned gymnasiums with complete support areas for athletics
Separate classrooms/areas for Band, Choir, Orchestra, Computer Science, Dance/Pep/Cheer, Photojournalism, Theatre Arts, and Speech
Auditorium
Cafeteria
Courtyard with amphitheatre
Library/Media Center
Separate field/practice areas for band, tennis, football, baseball, softball, and soccer
Approximately 1,000 parking spaces
School year
Johnson uses a traditional U.S. school calendar, with classes beginning the last Monday of August and ending in late May or early June. Students are given several holidays throughout the year, in addition to two weeks off in December and January for holiday break and one week off in spring for spring break. Beginning with the 2010-2011 school year, the school, along with the district, replaced the high school A/B block schedule with a seven-period day. The move to a seven-period day had been discussed by the district for several years as a cost-cutting measure. Many other districts similar in size to NEISD had previously made the change successfully. The district had previously maintained the block schedule because of the wide appeal to high school students and their families, but was no longer able to afford to do so. The academic calendar is broken into two semesters and further subdivided into nine-week grading periods, during which students are issued three-week progress reports and a report card at the end of the period, which contributes one quarter of their final grade in the class. Classes are graded on a 100-point grading scale, and each grade the student earns over their four-year high school career contributes to their ultimate class ranking. Special classes are weighted based on their rigor; Advanced Placement classes are given the multiplier 1.29 and Pre-Advanced Placement classes are given the multiplier 1.15. The official high school transcripts list the 100-point based GPA, instead of switching to a 4.0/5.0 scale.
