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
Established1925
SuperintendentDr. Karen Molinar
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]

Contents

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

Schools of Choice (Magnet Schools) K-12th

Secondary Schools

High Schools (Grades 9-12)

Zoned

Middle Schools (Grades 6-8)

  • Benbrook Middle-High School (Benbrook)
  • Daggett Middle School
  • J.P. Elder Middle School
  • Leadership Academy @ Forest Oak Middle School
  • J. Martin Jacquet 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
  • W.P. McLean Middle School (7-8)
  • McLean 6th Grade
  • 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 Middle School

Other Schools

  • Boulevard Heights (Fort Worth)
  • Como Success Academy (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)
  • International Newcomer Academy (I.N.A) (Fort Worth)

Elementary Schools Pre-K - 5th Grade

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Fort Worth ISD". Texas Tribune. December 8, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Totals for District 220905, Fort Worth ISD". Texas Education Agency . Retrieved March 13, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Independent School Districts in Tarrant County Map" (PDF). Tarrant County. January 1, 2018. Retrieved March 13, 2019.
  4. ↑ "Education". City of Arlington. Retrieved December 29, 2021. - Direct map of school districts - See also: "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Tarrant County, TX" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau . Retrieved December 29, 2021.
  5. ↑ Ayala, Eva-Marie (January 24, 2011). "Fort Worth students applying for Gold Seal slots". Fort Worth Star Telegram . Retrieved March 13, 2019.
  6. ↑ "2018 Accountability Ratings Overall Summary: Fort Worth ISD (220905)". Texas Education Agency. Retrieved March 13, 2019.
  7. ↑ Fancher, Julie (June 3, 2014). "Fort Worth ISD will pay ousted superintendent about $900,000". The Dallas Morning News . Archived from the original on March 8, 2015. Retrieved October 23, 2019.
  8. ↑ Guerrero, Maria (December 4, 2019). "Fort Worth ISD Plans to Redraw District Boundaries Draw Concern, Confusion From Some Parents". NBC DFW . Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  9. ↑ "Parents threaten lawsuit after Fort Worth ISD votes to change school zone boundaries". Fox 4 DFW. February 26, 2020. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  10. ↑ "2018-2019 Minimum Salary Schedule". tea.texas.gov. June 12, 2018. Retrieved March 14, 2019.
  11. ↑ "Salary for Public School Teacher in Texas, Page 47". Salary.com. Retrieved March 14, 2019.
  12. ↑ "Comparison of Teacher Salaries, Pages 1-2" (PDF). United Educators Association. Retrieved March 14, 2019.
  13. ↑ Guest, Charlotte. "New School Is Hard To Reach". Fort Worth Star-Telegram . Fort Worth, Texasdate=1968-09-06. p. 1-A, 2-A.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: location (link) - Clipping of first and of second page from Newspapers.com.
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  15. ↑ Chávez, Stella M. (April 30, 2018). "Struggling Fort Worth School Reboots As An 'Academy'". KERA-TV . Retrieved October 12, 2019.
  16. ↑ Blue Ribbon Schools Program, Schools Recognized 1982-1983 Through 1999-2002 (PDF) Archived March 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

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