A teacher in the Hays Consolidated Independent School District is under arrest for alleged sexual misconduct with a student.
Juan Pedro Gomez, 40, was arrested and charged with improper relationship between educator and student, a second-degree felony punishable by 2 to 20 years in prison.
Gomez is a math teacher at Lehman High School in Hays CISD.
He was booked into the Hays County Jail on April 24 and released the next day on a $50,000 bond.
Hays CISD released a statement Friday regarding Gomez.
On Friday, April 24, 2026, Hays CISD was notified by the Kyle Police Department that a teacher who works at Lehman High School was being investigated regarding possible inappropriate communication and activity involving a student who attends the school.
The district immediately removed 40-year-old math teacher Juan Gomez from the campus, placed him on administrative leave, and barred him from returning to the school or communicating with students and coworkers.
According to the statement, Hays CISD hired Gomez in July 2023 after he underwent a fingerprint-based criminal background check.
The district said Gomez will not return to campus while the criminal investigation is underway, and school officials are deferring questions to the Kyle Police Department.
“Protecting students is paramount. The district takes swift action anytime there is an accusation involving activity that would harm students,” said Hays CISD Chief Communication Officer Tim Savoy.
“Employees of the district are granted positions of tremendous trust and if they fail that, they will meet with a swift and substantial response,” added Savoy. “Inappropriate behavior with students is anathema to the thousands of district employees who work tirelessly to provide safe spaces for students to learn and grow.”
The Hays CISD statement noted that term-contracted teachers, including Gomez, cannot be immediately terminated because they have employment-based due-process rights that must be followed.
“However, the district will take whatever steps are necessary to protect the students in its charge,” the statement concluded.
Gomez has held a teaching certificate for math since 2009. His certification is currently under review by the Texas Education Agency.
Online records show Gomez previously worked for Austin ISD and Edcouch-Elsa ISD.
A spokeswoman for the Association of Texas Professional Educators told Texas Scorecard, “As a matter of policy, ATPE does not comment on the individual legal situations of Texas educators, nor do we confirm the membership status of any individual Texas educator. Sex crimes involving children are abhorrent in any scenario.”
Other state teacher associations did not respond to a request for comment on this latest arrest of a Texas educator on child sex-crime charges.
Last year, former Hays CISD teacher Andrew Palmore was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for continuous sexual abuse of several child victims, prompting the State Board for Educator Certification to revoke his teaching certificate.
In 2024, a Hays CISD principal, Brett Miksch, resigned amid allegations of sexual misconduct involving a student, as documented in state disciplinary action data published by the Open Records Project. SBEC suspended Miksch’s educator certificate for two years.
Over the past few years, a growing number of Texas school employees have been accused of sex crimes involving students and other children, and thousands of educators have been reported to the TEA for sexual misconduct.
