Lamar Middle School Has a New Principal — and He Already Knows the Building

If your sixth-, seventh-, or eighth-grader attends Lamar Middle School on Timber Creek Road, the person running the building just changed — but the face in the hallways did not.

Lewisville ISD announced that Nathan Hawes has been named principal of Lamar Middle School in Flower Mound. Hawes was already on staff there as an assistant principal. Internal promotion, not an outside hire.

That distinction matters more than it might sound. A principal who steps in from another campus spends the first semester learning which teachers have been there longest, which families call every week, which hallways get loud after fourth period. Hawes already knows all of that. For Lamar families and staff, the transition period that usually follows a leadership change will likely be shorter — the building's culture, its rhythms, and its people are already familiar to the person now leading it.

Lamar serves sixth through eighth grade at 4900 Timber Creek Rd. It's one of four LISD middle schools in Flower Mound, drawing students from neighborhoods across the western side of town.

One practical thing to follow: Hawes moving up leaves an open assistant principal slot at Lamar. LISD has not announced a replacement. Watch for that announcement — from inside the building or not — as the next piece of this transition for Lamar families to track.