Fort Worth Independent School District

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Fort Worth Independent School District
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Location
Fort Worth, surrounding areas
Texas
United States
District information
Type Public
GradesPre K-12
SuperintendentDr. Angelica Ramsey
Schools144
Budget$836.54 million
Students and staff
Students70,000 [1]
Teachers5,600
Staff11,330
Other information
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Fort Worth Independent School District is a school district based in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. Based on a 2017-18 enrollment of 86,234 students, it is the fifth largest school district in Texas. [2]

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Fort Worth ISD serves most of the city of Fort Worth, and the cities of Benbrook, Westover Hills, and Westworth Village. The district also covers portions of Arlington, Edgecliff Village, Forest Hill, Haltom City, Kennedale, Sansom Park, White Settlement, and unincorporated portions of Tarrant County. [3] [4]

In 2010, the district unveiled one of the largest, most comprehensive redesigns of secondary education in the nation with its Gold Seal Programs of Choice and Gold Seal Schools of Choice. Each of its 13 high schools introduced curricula focused on college and career pathways. As part of the Gold Seal plan, the district has also opened a single-gender school for girls, the Young Women's Leadership Academy; a single-gender school for boys, the Young Men's Leadership Academy Paul Laurence Dunbar Young Men's Leadership Academy; an early college high school, Marine Creek Collegiate High School; and an early college medical high school, the Texas Academy of Biomedical Sciences. [5]

In 2018, the school district was given an overall grade of "C" by the Texas Education Agency [6]

History

Superintendent Walter Dansby, who started his FWISD career circa 1974, began his term in 2012. His base salary was $338,817.60. He resigned on Monday June 2, 2014,; the following day the district announced his severance pay, to be doled out over a seven month period, would be over $900,000. His final day of work was January 31, 2015. [7]

In 2019 the district planned a major redraw of attendance boundaries, the first since circa 1999. [8] In 2020 the FWISD board of education accepted proposed changes. Parents upset with some of the changes considered filing lawsuits to stop the changes. [9]

Salary

Teacher salaries in the FWISD are above the state average and significantly higher than the minimum teacher salary schedule in Texas. [10] For the 2018-19 school year, the salary for new teachers with a Bachelor's degree in FWISD averaged $53,000 with no experience. The 2018-19 average salary for teachers with 30 years experience is $70,000. Teachers with a Master's degree or higher and the same years of experience averaged $1,000-$1,500 more per year. [11] [12]

Schools

Secondary schools

High schools (Grades 9-12)

Zoned
Gold Seal Schools of Choice
  • Alice Carlson Applied Learning Center K-5th (Fort Worth)
  • Applied Learning Academy 6th-8th (Fort Worth)
  • Como Montessori School K-8th (Fort Worth)
  • Daggett Montessori School K-8th (Fort Worth)
  • I.M. Terrell Academy for STEM & VPA 9th-12th (Fort Worth)
  • Marine Creek Collegiate High School 9th-12th (Fort Worth)
  • Riverside Applied Learning Center PK-5th (Fort Worth)
  • TCC South/FWISD Collegiate High School 9th-12th (Fort Worth)
  • Texas Academy of Biomedical Sciences 9th-12th (Fort Worth)
  • World Languages Institute 6th-12th (Fort Worth)
  • Young Men's Leadership Academy 6th-12th (Fort Worth)
  • Young Women's Leadership Academy 6th-12th (Fort Worth)

Middle Schools (Grades 6-8)

  • Benbrook Middle-High School
  • Daggett Middle School
  • J. Martin Jacquet Middle School
  • J.P. Elder Middle School
  • Leadership Academy @ Forest Oak Middle School
  • Glencrest 6th Grade School
  • Handley Middle School
  • William James Middle School
  • Kirkpatrick Middle School
  • Leonard Middle School
    • When it first opened, parents were only able to go on a single road, Chapin Road, to get there. [13]
  • Jean McClung Middle School
  • McLean 6th Grade School
  • W.P. McLean Middle School
  • W.A. Meacham Middle School
  • Meadowbrook Middle School
  • William Monnig Middle School
  • Morningside Middle School
  • Riverside Middle School
  • Rosemont Middle School
  • W. C. Stripling Middle School
  • Wedgwood 6th Grade School
  • Wedgwood Middle School
Other Schools
  • Boulevard Heights (Fort Worth)
  • Horizons Alternative School (Fort Worth)
  • J.J.A.E.P Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program (Fort Worth)
  • Jo Kelly School (Fort Worth)
  • Lena Pope Home (Fort Worth)
  • Metro Opportunity School (Fort Worth)
  • Middle Level Learning Center (Fort Worth)
  • International Newcomer Academy (Fort Worth)
  • Success High School (Fort Worth)

Primary/Elementary schools

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