[2] The school building lies within the Butler Place Historic District.

The building also had a limited number of rooms for teaching and the textbooks were handed down from nearby white schools.

Eventually, the school's first library would be started by Lillian B. Jones Horace, a teacher and librarian who encouraged parents and students to donate books.

[7] In addition to serving students in Fort Worth, the school drew students from areas outside the city, including Arlington, Bedford, Benbrook, Burleson, Roanoke, and Weatherford, where African American children could not attend school.

Terrell Academy for STEM and VPA after a $41 million restoration and construction project.

[14][15] Various accounts portray Baxter as encouraging his students "to push the boundaries of sound,"[16] or as "a stern band director who hated jazz.

"[14] Free jazz innovator Ornette Coleman was in the school band until he was dismissed for improvising during "The Washington Post.

"[17] Fellow musicians John Carter, King Curtis, Prince Lasha, Charles Moffett, and Dewey Redman all attended I.M.

[17] Julius Hemphill, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Cornell Dupree, Billy Tom Robinson, Thomas Reese and Ray Sharpe also graduated from I.M.

[23] Hughes was the United States' winningest high school basketball coach from February 11, 2003,[23] to December 7, 2010,[24] and is currently the winningest boys high school basketball coach in the United States,[25]