School Records

Victoria City School Records

For VICTORIA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT inquiries, Victoria Independent School District has the microfilmed index of city schools and student records. 102 Profit Drive, Victoria, 361-788-9297.

High School Yearbooks

These are hosted off-site.

Victoria County School Records

Library Archives, Victoria College/University of Houston-Victoria
2602 N. Ben Jordan, Victoria, TX 361-572-6420, 361-576-3151

Victoria County school records are housed in the Archives of the Victoria College-University of Houston Library. These are for County Schools only, other than those mentioned below.
  • County Board of Trustee Minutes - 1911-1978
  • County School Superintendent's Teachers' Daily Registers - 1889-1977
  • Permanent Record Cards - Circa 1935-1960's
  • Officer's Attendance Records - 1917-1934
  • County School Superintendent's Consolidated Rolls (includes some Victoria Independent School District) - 1908-1970
  • County School Superintendent's Family Census Blanks - 1913-1917, 1921, 1934, 1937-1939, 1940-1962
  • Record of Teachers' Certificates - 1903-1951
  • Texas Teachers' Retirement System - 1942-1949, 1956-1958, 1963, 1972-1973
  • County School Superintendent's Records - 1907-1908, 1914-1935
  • School Budget/Accounting Records - 1906-1908, 1941-1942, 1946-1951, 1958-1973
  • Auditor's Reports - 1957-1971
  • Transportation Records - 1976-1976

Other Counties Whose School Records We House

  • DEWITT COUNTY - Mostly 1930'S-1970's, some late 1800's
  • LAVACA COUNTY - Mostly early 1900s-1970s

A School Report, 4 Feb 1899

from the Victoria ADVOCATE

Victoria Grammar School: O.E.H. MUNDT, Principal; Misses MADGE DUNCAN, JOSEPHINE CUNNINGHAM, MAY MARTIN, ADELE LEUSCHNER, Assistants.

Has to date 310 scholars, well graded, doing well. At the monthly examination on the 27th of January, the names of the following students were placed on the Roll of Honor:

Algebra - MAURICE BINDEWALD, BEL STAFFORD, LOYE CHAFFE, MAY OMAN, EDITH PRAEGER

Geography - GEORGE GOLDMAN, EMMA BINDEWALD, ANNIE MALITZ, LISETTE LEUSCHNER, PAUL KORGES, EMMA FARRINGTON.

U.S. History - LOYE CHAFFE, LOUIS SENGELE, VALERIE SITTERLE, MAY OMAN

Texas History - CHRISTINE SULLIVAN, EUGENE SCHIER

Grammar - EMMA BINDEWALD, EUGENE SCHIER, LUCY WEISIGER, LEO GLOVER

Arithmetic - CARRIE MALITZ, EMMA BINDEWALD, LISETTE LEUSCHNER, EDITH PRAEGER, JOHANNA BECK, ANNIE MALITZ, MAY OMAN, PAUL KORGES, LONIE DE MOUCHE, ALFONZ HORNBURG, MINNIE FISCHER

Book-Keeping - HENRY WILDEN, MAY OMAN

Natural Philosophy - MAURICE BINDWALD, MAY OMAN

Composition - BEL STAFFORD, OTTO DIEBEL, JOHANNA BECK, CARRIE MALITZ

Language - LOUIS DE MOUCHE, PAUL KORGES, MINNIE HOFMANN

Spelling - MINNIE HOFMANN, RETTA BARRETT, ALFONZ HORNBURG, ALEXANDER MUNDT

Physiology - CLARENCE GOLDMAN, CHRISTINE SULLIVAN