Sugar Land Independent School District

Sugar Land Independent School District #17 was a school district headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas.

[1] Under state law, there was a 7-person board, and at least two members were required to be women.

The first school board president was M. R. Wood, the designer of Sugar Land's first school, and Mary Anna Collins Woods was the first superintendent.

[3] It was dissolved in 1959 when it merged with the Missouri City Independent School District to form the Fort Bend Independent School District.

[5] As of 2017[update] the only remaining building operated by this district is the Sugar Land Auditorium, which as of that year is also the final public building that remained from the era when Sugar Land was a company town of Imperial Sugar.