Smylie Wilson Middle School

Before school started on Friday, December 20th, another firearm was confiscated from a student at Smylie Wilson Middle School, making this the 3rd one to be confiscated in the past few weeks.

The new school will be named Commander William C. McCool Academy, after the 1979 Coronado High School graduate and pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia.

Officials at Smylie Wilson Middle School on Thursday, December 5th, 2019 informed parents that a firearm had been brought to school.

"We want to go back again and have community meetings again, and again share what we have in place now, because we have a lot more in place now, a year and a half later, than we did then. But then also get some feedback on some things that the community would like to see moving forward," Rollo said.

The plan will require Smylie Wilson to close down after the 2019-2020 school year and reopen in the fall of 2020 as a magnet school with a new name.

The Lubbock ISD Board of Trustees will meet concerning the future of Lubbock's Smylie Wilson Middle School campus.