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School Board Elections

 

San Elizario ISD


Who is eligible to serve as

a San Elizario ISD School Board Member?

Candidates interested in running for a San Elizario ISD school board of trustee must meet the following qualifications:

  • Be a United States citizen.
  • Be 18 years of age or older on the first day of the term to be filled at the election or on the date of appointment, as applicable.
  • Have not been determined by a final judgment of a court exercising probate jurisdiction to be totally mentally incapacitated or partially mentally incapacitated without the right to vote.
  • Have not been convicted of a felony.
  • Have resided continuously in the state for 12 months and in the territory from which the office is elected for six months immediately preceding the following date:
  • For an independent candidate, the date of the regular filing deadline for a candidate's application for a place on the ballot.
    For a write-in candidate, the date of the election at which the candidate's name is written in.
  • For an appointee to an office, the date the appointment is made.
  • Be registered to vote in the territory from which the office is elected on the date described at item 5, above.

See San Elizario ISD Policy: BBA(LEGAL) for details on the above qualifications and other specific requirements

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San Elizario ISD Board of Trustees

The San Elizario Independent School District was established in 1870, when school children attended classes in a small adobe building known as Los Portales. The first teacher, Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo, later became governor of New Mexico (1919-1921) and a U.S. Senator (1928-1929). Today, one high school, one middle school, three elementary schools, and a primary school campus in San Elizario serve approximately 4,100 students over a radius of 16 sq. miles. Located in a farming community along the international boundary of the United States and Mexico, San Elizario ISD rests just south of El Paso, Texas in El Paso County and is experiencing a steady level of growth. The town of San Elizario is one of the most historically rich areas of West Texas, located at the intersection of Farm roads 258 and 1110, fifteen miles southeast of downtown El Paso. Don Juan de Oñate reached the Rio Grande at or near the site of present San Elizario on April 20, 1598, and ten days later took formal possession of New Mexico and all adjacent territory in the name of the Spanish king. A settlement known as the Hacienda de los Tiburcios was founded at the site, then south of the Rio Grande, sometime before 1760 and had a population of 157 in 1765. In 1789 the Spanish presidio, located in the Valle de San Elizario opposite Fort Hancock, was moved to the Hacienda de los Tiburcios; the presidio kept its old name, however, and the settlement that grew up around it became known as San Elizario.


For more historical information on San Elizario,
contact the San Elizario Genealogy & Historical Society
at (915) 851-1682.