Answers to Go with Susan Smith

Q. Is it true that Southside Elementary School was in the Southside Community Center building on Guadalupe Street?

A . No, Southside Elementary, built in 1949, was a few blocks away in the school building at the corner of South LBJ and Lee Street. Before San Marcos schools were integrated, it was the school for Spanish-speaking children.

This building wasn’t the first school serving Spanish-speaking students in San Marcos. In 1908, an earlier Southside School was located at the corner of Valley and Herndon Streets in San Marcos. Forty-one students attended grades one through six there.