The current class of 8th grade students attending New Braunfels Middle School will be the first graduating class from LCHS. That campus is currently serving as a 9th grade center.
The vote comes after months of community surveys, with results from elementary and middle school students who will feed into the school as well as teachers, parents and school staff.
After the first surveys were received in July, a total of 198 nominations for mascots were brought forward, said Ingia Saxton, chief of secondary schools for NBISD. Keeping the same mascot as New Braunfels High School—the unicorns—was initially favored by plurality, a majority surveyed preferred a unique mascot for LCHS.
“[Superintendent] Dr. [Cade] Smith really tried to spell out what that potentially would look like so that everyone had a clear understanding of what having Long Creek High School as the unicorns could potentially mean for NBISD—not that it was a guarantee, but the potential of what that could look like,” Saxton said. "... In these survey results you will see those that responded to the survey stated that they wanted a different mascot.”
About 31% of those surveyed wanted to keep the unicorn as a mascot. The top two mascot candidates came down to dragons and lions, with dragons receiving slightly more votes than lions among the student population that will attend the new high school.
The board also voted unanimously to keep a shade of blue as the primary color for the school colors for LCHS and directed NBISD staff to send another survey for the secondary color.
