The 1876 Texas Constitution established districts called "school communities," leading to the opening of the first public school in Cedar Bayou that year. The school occupied the first floor of the masonic lodge. The 1884 school law established “common school districts” and District No. 15 contained three schools: Cedar Bayou, Goose Creek and Cedar Bayou Colored. Beginning in 1893, African American students attended school at Mt. Olive Church in Chambers County. In 1911, voters approved a bond to build a two-story brick school on a two-acre plot donated by Edward Ilfrey. Cedar Bayou Independent School District was created by an act of the Texas Legislature in 1917, but the district was not functional until 1919. In 1928, an elementary school was added, and in 1939, the two-story brick schoolhouse was replaced with a new building to be used for Cedar Bayou High School. Five years later, the junior high school wing was added. In 1954, Cedar Bayou ISD merged with Goose Creek ISD to become Goose Creek Consolidated Independent School District. The 1954 graduating class was the last to attend Cedar Bayou High School and the remaining high school students transferred to Robert E. Lee High School in Baytown. The former high school building became the new Cedar Bayou Junior High School. After the elementary school closed in 1956, grades 7-9 were the only classes taught on the campus. Goose Creek CISD desegregated in 1966, and separate education for black and white students was abolished. As Baytown’s population continued to increase, additional schools have been added. Fewer than fifty students attended the first public school in Cedar Bayou on its opening in 1876. Since then, the school has grown to a twenty-four-acre campus providing a junior high school education to the more than one thousand enrolled students. (2023)