Emile School or Emile High School was a segregated high school for African-American students in Bastrop, Texas. A part of the Bastrop Independent School District, it opened in 1893. The school, named after the book Emile, or On Education, housed grades 1-12. The lion was the school's mascot.
History
Emile Elementary School the building was a two-story structure on a plot of land in an African-American area of Bastrop. The lower grades were in four classrooms on the first floor and the upper grades were in two classrooms on the second floor. In the late 1940s a new building opened, and it received brick additions about a decade later. ==References==