Raymond and Tirza Martin High School, Laredo

Martin High School in Laredo carries the names of Raymond and Tirza Martin, namesakes of the school. By the nineteen thirties Laredo's growing student population had outgrown the campus on Zaragoza Street built two decades earlier, and the district built a new high school to meet the demand. The school opened as a modern facility for a border city that was expanding rapidly.

Martin High School went on to become one of Laredo's defining institutions, producing generations of graduates from a community whose identity straddles two nations and two languages. It represents the investment Laredo made in public education during a period when the Rio Grande borderland was growing into one of the most distinctive bicultural regions in the United States.