Fort Worth Independent School District Explained

Fort Worth Independent School District
Budget:$836.54 million
Region:Texas
Grades:Pre K-12
Superintendent:Dr. Angelica Ramsey
Teachers:5,600
Staff:11,330
Students:70,000 [1]
Schools:144
Location:Fort Worth, surrounding areas
Country:United States
Website:https://www.fwisd.org

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]

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)

Other Schools

Elementary Schools Pre-K - 5th Grade

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Fort Worth ISD . Texas Tribune . en . 8 December 2015.
  2. Web site: Totals for District 220905, Fort Worth ISD . . 2019-03-13.
  3. Web site: Independent School Districts in Tarrant County Map . Tarrant County . 2018-01-01 . 2019-03-13.
  4. Web site: Education. City of Arlington. 2021-12-29. - Direct map of school districts - See also: Web site: 2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Tarrant County, TX. U.S. Census Bureau. 2021-12-29.
  5. Web site: Ayala . Eva-Marie . Fort Worth students applying for Gold Seal slots . . 2011-01-24 . 2019-03-13.
  6. Web site: 2018 Accountability Ratings Overall Summary: Fort Worth ISD (220905) . Texas Education Agency . 2019-03-13.
  7. Web site: Fancher, Julie. Fort Worth ISD will pay ousted superintendent about $900,000. The Dallas Morning News. 2014-06-03. 2019-10-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20150308154156/http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2014/06/fort-worth-isd-will-pay-ousted-superintendent-about-900000.html/. 8 March 2015.
  8. Web site: Guerrero. Maria. Fort Worth ISD Plans to Redraw District Boundaries Draw Concern, Confusion From Some Parents . NBC DFW. 2019-12-04. 2022-07-30.
  9. Web site: Parents threaten lawsuit after Fort Worth ISD votes to change school zone boundaries. Fox 4 DFW. 2020-02-26. 2022-07-30.
  10. Web site: 2018-2019 Minimum Salary Schedule . tea.texas.gov . 12 June 2018 . 2019-03-14.
  11. Web site: Salary for Public School Teacher in Texas, Page 47 . Salary.com . 2019-03-14.
  12. Web site: Comparison of Teacher Salaries, Pages 1-2 . United Educators Association . 2019-03-14.
  13. News: Guest. Charlotte. New School Is Hard To Reach. Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Fort Worth, Texasdate=1968-09-06. 1-A, 2-A. - Clipping of first and of second page from Newspapers.com.
  14. http://www.ed.gov/programs/nclbbrs/list-2003.pdf Microsoft Word - list-2003.doc
  15. Web site: Chávez, Stella M.. Struggling Fort Worth School Reboots As An 'Academy'. KERA-TV. 2018-04-30. 2019-10-12.
  16. http://www.ed.gov/programs/nclbbrs/list-1982.pdf Blue Ribbon Schools Program, Schools Recognized 1982-1983 Through 1999-2002 (PDF)

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