Coat of arms
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LASA was officially recognized by the school board as a separate school from LBJ in 2007. Even though the two schools are separate, they are still housed on the same campus so they share athletic and fine arts courses.
3 The LASA shell or nautilus resting
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Ducete, benefacte, auctoritate, and comitate. Words or phrases in latin that summarize all of the characteristics of students at LASA. They translate to Leadership, righteousnes, and authority.
The feather most likely represents the liberal arts of the liberal arts and science academy along with the atom for science. The school used to be split up or specialized in a sense between literature and science but now that the two schools are housed on the same campus as LASA, there is both a great science and literature department.
5 The arts side of the school is shown here with a comedy and tragedy mask along with a harp. Fine arts at LASA include a great art, music, and theatre program with UIL and varsity competitions and even though this school isn’t very well known for its arts, it doesn’t mean that they aren’t a great part of LASA.
on a textbook acknowledges the independence of the school in a sense by introducing it’s own mascot or symbol. It’s not a very powerful or proud creature like our jaguar but it represents the ‘brains of the bronze’ in a way.
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The jaguar is the wellrenowned mascot of LBJ high school. This great figure can come in a few forms including a purple colored jaguar and a pitch-black nightwalker jaguar but in this case it’s a very powerful spotted jaguar perched over the LASA crest. This Mighty cat is considered the king of the jungle at times so it is suited to be our mascot as it dominates all.
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