Its mascot is the Lion, the school colors are maroon and gold, and the district's motto is Expect, Achieve, Excel.
[1] La Feria High School is classified as an AAAA (4A) campus, as regulated by Texas U.I.L.
Forms were provided in the local newspaper, and residents wrote their choices and delivered it to the main office.
They named it after Noemi Dominguez, a 1991 graduate of La Feria High School who obtained her BA from Rice University and was a teacher in the Houston ISD pursuing a master's degree in education from the University of Houston before her life was cut short by Ángel Maturino Reséndiz.
[4][5] Although the decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 mandated an end to segregation, La Feria Consolidated Independent School District (LFCISD) and many other school districts throughout the United States failed to comply with desegregation mandates.
In addition to the white school campus located at Robert E. Lee Elementary, Robert E. Lee housed 4th and 5th grade Mexican and Mexican American students at the original, two story High School [old] building.
There were some Mexican American students who were exceptions to this rule of racial segregation and were placed in predominantly Anglo classrooms.
These students were often children who had a strong command of the English language, and whose parents were educated and of middle class social economic status.
[citation needed] Also, in the 1960s, the student population at La Feria hit a record high.
Because of these external and internal forces the La Feria ISD administration, led by Mr. C. E. Vail until 1974 and then by Mr. William B.
Green, began implementing the state mandated programs to show La Feria could comply and that its schools could excel.
It was a slow gradual process, but Mexican American students and staff became more involved and visible in the school community.