Hill College

From 1923 to 1950 Hillsboro Junior College, one of the earliest municipal junior colleges in Texas, operated in the same building as Hillsboro High School, in Hillsboro. The Hillsboro public school system had planned for separate buildings, but the high school had burned down on April 6, 1922, so the funds for the two schools were combined, and a three-story building on the site of the old high school building was erected. The junior college operated on the third floor. It opened with six faculty members and fifty-two students on September 10, 1923. In 1947 two temporary classroom buildings were added to the grounds for the junior college. In 1950 it closed for lack of funds.

In 1959 the Hillsboro Junior College charter was reactivated; a new junior college district, which included six school districts, was formed and voted to levy a tax to raise bonds for $450,000 to build a college plant. A board of regents was appointed, and the new college was named Hill Junior College. Classes opened in the national guard armory west of Hillsboro in September 1962 for 190 students.