Education and Schools | Trinidad/Las Animas County

List of Weston elementary school students with perfect attendence records contains mostly Latino names.

Includes Joseph P. Bacca as class “Veledictorian” and class President

Includes J. Eliseo Martinez as class Vice- President

He was a farmer and a teacher who taught school for 30 years in the towns of Jaroso, Trujillo Creek, and Martinez; he and his wife raised their family in Trujillo Creek.

Poor children are hiding in rest room to avoid embarrassment when they cannot afford to buy lunch

Primero Grade School and High School, undated

St. Joseph’s Academy and Holy Trinity Church, Trinidad, undated

Rice High School, Trinidad, undated

Students at Rice School, Trinidad, 7th grade, 1892

First page of commencement booklet, giving names of graduates and their majors

Students at Brown Street School, Trinidad, grade 6, 1888

Students at Rice School, Trinidad, upper grades, 1885-6

Students at Starkville School, early primary grades, undated

School at Tercio, undated

School photo of students and teacher. Three African-American students are shown at the back right

Students at Park St. School, Trinidad, middle grades, 1892

Students from the Martínez School pose in Martínez Plaza near the village of Plaza de los Martínez (Las Animas County). Nearly all have Hispanic names.

Hispanic American students and their male teacher pose in front of their school in Rivera (San Francisco Plaza, Glenham), Las Animas County. A plaque over the door reads: “Public School 1890.”

Two rows of graduates stand between two period cars, wearing their caps and gowns. At least eight of the students had Hispanic names.