Welcome to Hodges Bend Middle School!
 
We are the WARRIORS working together in a "Community of Promise"! We work hard at our studies, our sports and our fine arts. We believe in behavior that is Civil, Compassionate, Cooperative, Charitable and Courageous.
 
The Administrative Team will be assigned to assist our students and parents as listed below. Please do not hesitate to contact us for any question or concern.
 
Principal: Ms. Lillie Vega
Associate Principal: Rick Gonzales (6th Grade)
Assistant Principal: Sam Burton (8th Grade)
Assistant Principal: Rachel Cortez (7th grade)
Dean of Instruction: John Heller
 

Hodges Bend Middle School Principal: Ms. Lillie Vega
 
Lillie Vega is the seventh principal of Hodges Bend Middle School which opened in the fall of 1987. The campus is located at 16510 Bissonnet in the western part of the school district.
 
Ms. Vega has begun her 33rd year in education serving 23 of those years within Fort Bend ISD. Her first teaching assignment was in Corpus Christi, Texas as an elementary teacher at Shannon Estates Elementary where she taught for five years. In 1981, Ms. Vega moved to Houston, Texas and accepted a teaching position with Houston ISD as a middle school Reading and English teacher at McReynolds Middle School and Deady Middle School.
 
In 1986, Ms. Vega accepted a teaching position as a Reading teacher with Fort Bend ISD at First Colony Middle School in Sugar Land. During her time at First Colony Middle School she served as a Team Leader for many years, member of the Campus Based Leadership Team, Reading and English Department Head, Teacher of the Year 1995, and District Teacher of the Year Finalist.
 
In 1998, Ms. Vega began her administrative career with the opening of Hightower High School as an Assistant Principal and Associate Principal of Macario Garcia Middle School where she served in both administrative capacities for ten years. She was named Principal of Hodges Bend Middle School in July of 2008.
 
She is a graduate of the University of Texas in Austin where she completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education, a Reading Certification and a Master of Education in Educational Administration from the University of Houston.
 
Ms. Vega has been a trainer and speaker at the district level, state level, and international level for professional development, symposiums, workshops, and seminars.
 
For additional information please contact the school at (281) 634-3000.

Mission Statement
 
The mission of Hodges Bend Middle School, a collaborative team of students, faculty, staff, parents, and community, will provide a safe and supportive learning environment that empowers all students to achieve their potential to be life-long learners in a global society.
 
Vision
It is our belief that:
All students can learn.
All students learn in different ways.
All students will have opportunities to develop a positive self-image, self-respect and self-control to become productive citizens
in society.
 

Click on the attached document for the HBMS Supplement to the 2010-2010 Parent/Student Handbook.

FROM THE NORTH: From the intersection of Hwy. 6 and Westheimer (FM 1093) Go West on FM 1093 to FM 1464. At the light there is a Shell station on the left. Turn left. Continue South on FM 1464 for 2.5 miles. (Pass the blinking light at the double curve.) Continue to the next traffic light and watch for the large school sign and the school districts bus barn on the left. Turn left at the light and continue 1/2 block. The school is on the left.
 

 
FROM THE SOUTH: From the intersection of Hwy. 90 and Hwy. 6, go West on Hwy. 6 to FM 99. Turn right on FM 99 and go one block to the next light. Turn right on FM 1464 going North for 5 miles. Pass the open fields and the golf course on the left side. Austin High School and then Garcia Middle School will be passed on the right. Continue North to the next traffic light until you see the district bus barn on the right and a school sign at the intersection. From FM1464 turn right at Bissonnet. Go 1/2 block the school is on the left.

If severe weather or other threatening conditions are present tune to your local broadcast media for school closings. Emergency closing of the school is determined by the Superintendent, and then the principals and news media will be notified.
 
(The most reliable sources are Ch.2 TV and 740 AM
 
For school closing information go to FBISD web site for listing of closed schools
Also check local media stations especially Ch. 2 and 740 am radio. Region IV School Closings
 

Opening in the fall of 1987, Hodges Bend Middle School was the sixth middle school build in the district.
 
The campus is located on the far west edge of Houston, Texas and on northern part of the Fort Bend School District. The district covers 174 square miles of the eastern side of Fort Bend County.
The location of the campus is on the historical land grant belonging to Alexander Elliot Hodge born in York, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania between 1760 and 1862. He married about 1788 and had five boys and ten girls, Archie, William, Nancy, John, Ruth, Alexander Elliott, Mary, James, Cynthia and Lucinda.
A veteran of the "Swamp Fox", General Francis Marion's South Carolina brigade during the American Revolution, Alexander Hodge brought his family to Texas in 1825. Hodge was prominent among the "old three hundred" settlers that settled in this area. Stephen F. Austin assigned Hodge one of the five leagues of land Austin had saved for himself. His land grant for 4428 acres, issued in 1828 from Stephen F. Austin, was named Hodges Bend.
While Texas was still under the Republic of Mexico, Hodge served his section of the colony as Comisario and Alcalde. During this time, settlers that would later take prominent positions in the history of Texas were visitors to Hodges Bend. Martin DeLeon, Lorenzo de Zavala, Mairbeau B. Lamar, Erastus (Deaf) Smith, William Travis, and James Bonham were at Hodges Bend before the Texas Revolution.
His sons and sons-in-law fought in the Texas Revolution. Alexander, at 76 years of age, led his daughters and grandchildren in the Runaway Scrape. His granddaughter recalled how they huddled under a clump of trees and listened to gunfire at the Battle of San Jacinto.
Hodges Bend also included the family cemetery. The first grave there was that of his wife, Ruth, who died in 1831. Hodge died August 17, 1836 and was also buried there. The old cemetery contains about 75 graves, including those of Hodge's descendants and other early settlers in the area. Alexander Hodge is the only known soldier of the American Revolution buried in Fort Bend County.
There is currently an Alexander Hodge Chapter of the Sons of the Revolution.