One school color chosen for 2nd New Braunfels ISD high school

The New Braunfels ISD board of trustees voted unanimously Jan. 9 on one of two school colors for the forthcoming second high school in the district, Long Creek High School.

After presenting the results of a student survey, navy blue was chosen by a majority of eighth-grade students from New Braunfels Middle School, NBISD Chief of Secondary Schools Ingia Saxton said.

The class of eighth-grade students attending New Braunfels Middle School will be the first graduating class from LCHS. That campus is currently serving as a ninth-grade center.

“There's lots of shades that you can choose from, but we really have to be able to tailor it down,” Saxton said. “One of the things we did was we reached out to our vendor, and basically, with the current vendor that we have, with the shades of blue that we're able to get [for] uniforms, and uniforms in football, volleyball, all of our competitive uniforms in, there are really two other options aside from what we currently have.”

Outside of “Unicorn Blue,” the students were given the option of a lighter shade of blue—what was called “Carolina Blue”—and navy blue to choose from. More surveys will be presented at the board meeting in February to determine the secondary color.

About 52% of student respondents favored the navy blue colors.

The board voted unanimously at a Dec. 12 meeting 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. At that meeting, the mascot was also chosen—the dragons.