Hebert High School developed out of a school for black children of all ages built in the early 20th century on two acres of land in the Pear Orchard section of Beaumont that was donated to the South Park Independent School District by two former slaves, Usan Hebert and Ozan Blanchette. It was initially called South Park Colored School but was renamed for Hebert at the instigation of the first principal, John P. Odom, and a group of supporters. The original two-room wooden school was replaced in 1922 by a two-story brick building with a vocational annex, and in 1923 it was accredited as a high school. The first class of five graduated in 1924. The campus continued to expand, with major additions in the 1930s and 1940s including the addition of another acre of land, and in 1941–1942 Hebert was accredited as a four-year high school, with the first twelfth-graders graduating in 1942. In 1954 the school relocated to a new campus on Fannett Road; it became exclusively a senior high school in 1968 when Odom Middle School moved to a separate site. The Hebert campus housed the ninth and tenth grades, the Forest Park campus, the eleventh and twelfth. At the time of the merger, Hebert students were scoring noticeably below students at Forest Park and
South Park High School, the district's other mostly white high school, especially in reading; the district as a whole was below the national average. In 1998 the renovated campus became the site of the new Ozen Senior High School, which students voted to name for Clifford Ozen, head football coach at Hebert from 1959 to 1974. Also by student vote, Ozen's teams became the panthers and its colors blue and gold, as at Hebert. ==Athletics==