Over 200 Fort Worth ISD elementary students to switch campuses next year. Here’s where.
Attendance boundaries for five Fort Worth ISD schools will be impacted starting next school year as the district rebuilds an aging campus and consolidates other ones.
The school board on Tuesday, Dec. 10, approved boundary changes for Carter Park Elementary and Clifford Davis Elementary schools, in addition to West Handley Elementary, Sagamore Hill Elementary and Eastern Hills Elementary. The respective changes stem from overcapacity and underutilization of certain campuses and construction prompted by the district’s 2021 bond program, according to district records. The changes were approved this week without discussion by school board members.
The impacts to Carter Park and Clifford Davis stem from overcapacity at the Clifford Davis campus and underutilization of the Carter Park campus, according to the district. The rezoning will add about 105 students to Carter Park. District staff are still evaluating enrollment trends for “potential future adjustment with Mitchell Boulevard (Elementary School) for additional overcrowding relief if necessary.” An early 2020 comprehensive pyramid realignment plan approved by the school board at the time included boundary and attendance zone adjustments for these campuses, and the now-approved changes are consistent with that plan, officials said.
Eastern Hills Elementary is getting a full makeover with the demolition of its current building and construction of a new school with a 750-student capacity at the same location. It was one of three replacement elementary schools in the 2021 bond program, which included a $1.2 billion package approved by voters. It’s been more than 65 years since that area within Fort Worth ISD has seen school construction.
Students at Eastern Hills Elementary will move to West Handley Elementary next school year to allow the construction to start. This will prompt a boundary change for West Handley Elementary and Sagamore Hill Elementary, shifting about 120 students to Sagamore Hill “to balance enrollments and improve transportation efficiency,” according to the district.
“In an effort to provide access to the new learning environment to as many students as possible and to improve utilization rates in the Eastern Hills Pyramid, it is necessary to reduce the number of schools in the area inside Loop 820 from four schools to three. When the Eastern Hills Elementary School construction project is complete in the fall of 2027, all students at West Handley will be zoned to the new building together,” according to officials.
