Best High Schools in the Fort Worth, TX area?

[mickeysgal]

DH is looking at a job in the Fort Worth TX area. I've read the recent thread about the Dallas schools, but this job is located more in the Fort Worth area...specifically south of Fort Worth. Can anyone tell me about good school districts (specifically high schools) south of the city?

 

[Rafiki Rafiki Rafiki]

LOL, mickeysgal...GMTA!

Maybe we'll need to plan a DIS Meet when we all move there!

 

[mickeysgal]

Bumping to see if anyone from the Fort Worth area have any school recommendations.

 

[paigevz]

Sorry, don't know any good South districts. The good ones are North and East.........................generally.......................

 

[Aimeedyan]

We are in South Ft Worth. I don't have children yet so I can't vouch for personal exp but I work with a hundred families or so and they all have children in Crowley or Fort Worth ISD and ALL tell me how much they love their children's schools. We are in Crowley ISD, I would have preferred Ft Worth ISD but couldn't afford to buy in the area with the good elementary schools, but our realtor and friends here all said Crowley ISD would be good resale value and good schools for when we have children.

Feel free to PM me if you'd like more info on where we are; I don't want to share too much personal info on a huge message board =)

 

[schnerk]

I grew up in the mid-cities area and atteneded school in the Hurst-Euless-Bedford (HEB) District. It is still a great area. The schools score well and they offer plenty of opportunities for your children to join all sorts of activities and groups. It is a nice mix of families too. It is a bit lower income than say your Grapevine Colleyville and Southlake Carrol districts. This can be a good thing, depending on what you are looking for.

Hope this helps muddy the waters a bit more

 

[ktulu]

I grew up in Arlington, decent schools when I went. Most people in the D/FW metroplex commute, so don't tie yourself to Ft. Worth. I work in Dallas, and a bunch of guys live in Ft. Worth and commute back and forth. I live in Lewisville, which is in southern denton county, easy access to Dallas and Ft. Worth.

schnerk: I just love saying pflugerville, best name ever.

darren

 

[Celluloidgal]

Southside Fort Worth checking in

My kidos are still elementary/middle school. Our high school is Paschal. It is said to be a pretty good school. I know of at least one friend (who is homeschooling now) who wants to move Southside so her kids can go to Paschal for high school. They offer good AP & Honors classes and they have the largest number of National Merit Scholars & Minority Scholars in Fort Worth and Tarrant county.

 

[denecarter]

Within Fort Worth ISD, there are several High Schools. Paschal seems to have the most National Merit Scholars, Tremble Tech has the highest rating according to TAKS scores (only exemplary high school I believe).

Arlington Heights (just off I-30, next to Central Market) has some good points. My best friend's son goes there. Several students go there that spent their middle school years at Private Schools. Other HS in south Fort Worth include Western Hills, Southwest, and South Hills.

School web pages, district info, etc. can be found at fortworthisd.org... there is no www. Then you can get data from an outside organization that rates the schools on test performance and best practices at just4kids.org... again, no www.

Mansfield is south of Fort Worth... it is growing quickly which can have it's good points (lots of new buildings) and bad points (general growing pains).

As far as commuting... yes, a lot of people in this area do. But it has it's drawbacks, too. I'm finishing up 6 years in Fort Worth ISD (at a feeder middle school for Arlington Heights) and trading it for a job in Granbury where I live. My commute has been 32 miles each way... over 68,400 miles with total drive time of 72 DAYS at 24-hours per day drive. I'm taking a pay cut... but with my new school 3/10 mile from home, I'll make it up with the cost of gasoline.

Anyway, back to your question. Honestly, in the Fort Worth area, there is no one "OMG, you MUST go to THIS school" campus. Most all of them have excellent points and highly successful students... the effort students put into school can be the biggest factor in their success. Check out the schools as much as you can online, find one with the features your children need (high test scores, winning baseball program, orchestra, demographics... whatever). The just4kids.org website has all of the demographic data... fortworthisd.org has the run-down on special programs and extracurricular stuff.

By the way, Fort Worth's Superintendent is still in her first year... and she's making a lot of changes... especially in high schools.

Hope this helps...

 

[Aimeedyan]

Southside Fort Worth checking in

My kidos are still elementary/middle school. Our high school is Paschal. It is said to be a pretty good school. I know of at least one friend (who is homeschooling now) who wants to move Southside so her kids can go to Paschal for high school. They offer good AP & Honors classes and they have the largest number of National Merit Scholars & Minority Scholars in Fort Worth and Tarrant county.

I wanted to be in Paschal area so bad! 95% of the teenagers I know go there and it's a great school. My parents met and graduated from there 30+ years ago and it was fantastic then! I also have a few friends that teach there.

In Ft Worth, you can apply to a different HS then the one you're assigned to and hope to get in; course, you have to be in FWISD already to get that perk! Several of those students I know have done that. So maybe your friend can get her children in that way =)

 

[KristaTX]

Maybe we'll need to plan a DIS Meet when we all move there!

Oh check out the meets board and you'll see that we have meets quite often here in the DFW area . Chicago, Boston, and DFW are THE places to be for local meets, and we recently even had a simultaneous meet with Boston.

Y'all let us know when you get here, and we'll definitely get together .

 

[The Mystery Machine]

We did look into Fort Worth area before we moved here. Specifically we looked at the Eagle Mountain Lake area.
We looked all around those areas and couldn't do it.

I needed stores, doctors, close schools. So we settled on Flower Mound and DH commuted to Fort Worth.
Now he "telecommutes" aka works from home.

We also consider the fact it is central to Fort Worth/Dallas.