Reed Elementary School history

In 1884, a one-room school was built, which was named Big Cypress School House, No.

In 1896, C. W. Hohl founded the school in "Gum Island," later renamed Fairbanks, which includes an area where district schools Bane, Dean, and Holbrook are now located.

Hot Wells, since replaced by a shooting range at United States Highway 290 near Barker-Cypress Road, was discovered by wildcatters in 1904.

Cy-Fair High School was officially established on the same site in 1935.

By 1937, the Cypress School consisted of seven rooms, a superintendent's office, and a library, and, later that year, a new wood-framed schoolhouse for high school students was constructed on the site where Lamkin Elementary now stands.

In 1939 they consolidated in an election orchestrated by Fairbanks Trustee J. F. Bane and Cypress Superintendent E. A. Millsap.

High school students walked as a group to their new campus, which was featured in the Houston Chronicle as "one of the most modern-equipped and largest school buildings in Harris County," in the spring of 1942, and the first commencement ceremony was held on campus that same year.

Following the creation of Cypress-Fairbanks CSD (CSD was later changed to ISD), the district's high school received its first accreditation with the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools in 1943.

Now a retired Harris County criminal court judge, Hancock said he was present for the district's first rodeo, which he describes as a goat-roping, held in 1944.

Cypress-Fairbanks and farming had become so intertwined that a local family was featured on the cover of The Progressive Farmer in 1956.

During 1959, the name of Fairbanks Elementary School was officially changed to Bane Elementary School.

She had joined CFISD as an English teacher in 1970, a couple of years after Lee.

Hancock recalls that members of Carverdale's championship basketball team joined the Cy-Fair High School team, which won celebrated state and national championships in 1971.

In 1975, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD consisted of 13 schools, including Adam, Bane, Hancock, Holbrook, Lamkin, Matzke, Post and Yeager elementary schools; Arnold, Bleyl and Dean junior high schools; and Cy-Fair and Jersey Village senior high schools.

In 2001, Cy-Fair ISD completed a $28 million total makeover of Cy-Fair High School providing students with a modern, state-of-the-art campus.