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North East Independent School District

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About North East ISD

North East Independent School District is one of the largest school districts in the San Antonio metropolitan area, serving portions of Bexar County from its headquarters in San Antonio, Texas. Founded in 1950, the district covers approximately 132 square miles and enrolls around 60,000 students across more than 65 campuses, including seven high schools. Its student population is roughly 60 percent Hispanic and 24 percent white non-Hispanic, reflecting the diversity of northeastern San Antonio.

The district's seven high schools are named after American presidents and military figures: Churchill, Johnson, MacArthur, Madison, Reagan, and Roosevelt. A seventh school, formerly named Robert E. Lee High School, was renamed Legacy of Educational Excellence (LEE) in 2018 following community discussion about the appropriateness of honoring Confederate figures on public school buildings.

Free Expression and the Classroom

North East ISD has a long, if not always straightforward, relationship with student expression. In the late 1960s, the district was the subject of Shanley v. Northeast Independent School District, a First Amendment case in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that the district had unconstitutionally disciplined students for distributing an off-campus newsletter that discussed birth control and marijuana law reform. The ruling remains a notable precedent in student free-speech law.

Decades later, North East ISD accounts for the highest number of book removals of any single school district in Texas, with hundreds of titles pulled from library shelves and classroom collections in recent years. The district's broad and rapid approach to book challenges has made it a focal point in the ongoing national debate over what students should be permitted to read at school.

This district's book removals have drawn news coverage — see reporting from San Antonio Report for more.