Bondy Intermediate opened its doors in August 1993 under the leadership of Thomas Baccaro. The school is named in honor of Elmer G.  Bondy, a coach, teacher, assistant principal, principal and assistant superintendent in Pasadena ISD. Prior to his employment with Pasadena ISD, Bondy was a WWII hero who withdrew from college at 19 to join the Air Force.

As plans for the school were developed, Baccaro was on a panel of principals to design the campus, which would be  Pasadena ISD’s tenth intermediate school. Baccaro toured buildings and interviewed principals to collaborate on the design of Bondy. The design chosen was the “school within a school” model. Each grade level, sixth through eighth, would have their own hall and their core classes together. Bondy students would also be on academic teams to promote a sense of belonging. Baccaro, a former history teacher, chose the school’s mascot, the Patriot. Continuing with the theme, each hallway was named in honor of American patriots including Washington, Adams, Franklin, Revere, Wheatley, De Las Casas and Tecumseh, along with Jefferson Library. The Alma Mater was written by a Bondy student, Leia Sayers and music was arranged by Brenda Varvoutis, the choir teacher. The formal dedication for the school was held on November 7, 1993.  

Several years later in 2000, a tornado hit Bondy, damaging the bleachers on the football field and blowing out the library windows. In 2005, Bondy rededicated the library as the Thomas Baccaro Library in honor of the school’s founding principal. In 2007, the new Carter Lomax Middle School wasn’t completed in time for fall classes, so for the first semester, Lomax was housed at Bondy. Beginning in January 2008, sixth-grade students were sent to one of the district’s middle schools and Bondy became a seventh and eighth grade campus. In 2020, the school received a new air conditioning system. 

Over the years, several former teachers from Bondy have gone on to become assistant principals and principals in the district. Bondy was the first Pasadena ISD campus to be named a Summit Spotlight School for personalized learning. The campus is proud of its dedication to excellence, its students having won multiple awards and achievements. 

List of Principals

-Tommy Baccaro 1992-1998
-Dan Connolly 1998-2015
-Roneka Lee 2015-present

Elmer Bondy's 39 years of service to the Pasadena ISD ran the gamut from football coach to district administrator.

Bondy joined the faculty and coaching staff at Pasadena High in the late 1940s. He went on to serve as assistant principal at Pasadena High and in 1963 was named the third principal in the history of South Houston High.

Elmer Glenn Bondy was born in Monroe, La., on August 4, 1922, and raised in San Antonio, where he graduated from Brackenridge High School in 1940. He attended Southwest Texas State on a football scholarship, but his pursuit of a degree was interrupted by World War II.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, at age 19, he withdrew from school and enlisted in the Army Air Corps (Air Force). He graduated from flying school, earning his twin-engine pilot wings and a commission as a Second Lieutenant. He flew a C-47 to New Guinea in the Pacific to participate in the war to liberate the Philippine Islands under the command of Gen. Douglas McArthur.  After WWII ended, he was honorably discharged at the rank of First Lieutenant.  

After the war, he re-enrolled at Southwest Texas State and earned a bachelor’s degree in education and later earned a master’s degree in school administration from the University of Houston.  He married Isla Stockwell of Raymondville in 1947. The couple moved to Pasadena where Bondy began his career in education.  He was hired by the Pasadena School Board as a Coach and Mathematics teacher at South Houston Junior High School. His next assignment was at Pasadena High School as a coach, teacher, and assistant principal. In 1963 Mr. Bondy was appointed Principal of South Houston High School. After four years he was named Assistant Superintendent for Secondary Schools. He served in this position for nineteen years until his retirement in 1986.

A highly regarded member of the Pasadena community, Bondy was honored in 1993 with the naming and dedication of Bondy Intermediate.  

Mr. Bondy was a past president and lifetime member of the Pasadena Noon Optimist Club, a Texas Life Member of PTA, a member of the Pasadena Rotary Club and First United Methodist Church in Pasadena.

He passed away on August 11, 2012 at the age of 90.  Mr. Bondy is always honored at Bondy's annual Veteran's Day Ceremony.  His wife, Isla, was honored with the naming and dedication of the campuses greenhouse and garden on the side of the school which is kept up by the staff and students at Bondy.