Community is fostered on a campus through student, parent and community partnerships. Campus Leadership would work diligently to foster communication amongst stakeholders and create opportunities for students and families to become actively involved and engaged at the campus. Fort Worth ISD principals and staff are expertly trained in building community, uplifting students, and connecting with families. The district has the highest faith in their ability to do this.  

There will not be an impact on honors course work.  All course offerings that are currently offered at the sites, will continue. In fact, the merger will create access and  opportunity for all students due to combining resources. 

We have successfully transitioned schools in previous years when we opened new buildings or when we consolidated other 6th grade centers. The district will work to provide the same support and services for this transition as well, should the board make the decision to combine campuses. A transition plan will begin one year in advance of the move to prepare students, staff and parents for the transition.

Combining the expertise and resources of the teachers and staff of these campuses will give them an opportunity to work together for the betterment of the education of all kids. The district will continue to provide support to teachers and staff. Teachers will likely only need to teach one grade level instead of splitting to teach two core subjects in two different grade levels. If campuses are merged, planning practices will be strengthened to allow for a team of teachers (3-5) to engage in Professional Learning Communities each week to ensure strategies and practices are aligned.

By eliminating an additional transition, the 6th graders would benefit from staying on campus for three years to help them prepare for high school years. If students have the opportunity to be around 7th and 8th graders, it can help them advance socially and academically. The merger will also allow for teachers to plan with other teachers in the same content area. Robust elective programming may be offered and sustained.

Across the district there are 6th graders mixed in with 7th and 8th graders who are performing well socially and academically. We have our own models and campuses to look to and prove this. 

The state requires the student to teacher ratio to not exceed 28:1 in middle school. FWISD is in compliance with this requirement.

At FWISD, administrators are trained not only in curriculum or teacher development, but in building community. The district has faith in the principals’ ability to build community on their campus and with their families. Additionally, the district has a thriving PTA community which, in partnership, could help with these concerns as well. Administrators will continue to intentionally plan for community events, in which students, staff and parents can connect with one another to create community among each other to best support a positive school culture. The school will utilize different methods for communicating with the school at large (parents, students and staff) to ensure transparency and be inclusive of all school community members. 

All Texas School Ratings were last published in 2022 by the Texas Education Agency. Daggett was rated a C campus in the last state campus rating scale. Currently no official ratings have been published for the 2023 school year due to pending litigation with the Texas Education Agency that was filed by at least 100 Texas school districts. Due to the recent update to the state accountability system, most school districts have been preparing campuses for a possible lower rating for the 2023 school year. 

Yes, students who qualify for Language Center services within the attendance zone will be enrolled at this campus for this proposed merger. The Language Center will be expanded to align with student language needs across the district. This will result in Daggett MS receiving less students from other sites. The district will revisit enrollment for the Language Center on a yearly basis to determine the best possible placement to meet the needs of all students.

Research (John Hattie) within the past two decades has shown class size to have a positive impact. District Learning and Leading efforts will continue to focus on improving the quality of Tier 1 instruction districtwide geared toward coaching and supporting all staff to collaborate and continuously measure their impact for improvement, which has been proven to result in improved academic achievement. Our goal is to focus on growth and progress for each student and performance indicators that emphasize giving teachers immediate, actionable feedback to improve teaching.

We understand that culture is an important factor for all staff across our district and remain committed to support each other and provide opportunities for transparency and inclusivity so that each member of the FWISD family is aware of the value they bring to the team in service to our students, families and each other.

The Learning and Leading team will continue efforts to support the effectiveness of all our middle schools by ensuring that classroom organization and staffing patterns support the needs of our students, develop and implement appropriate curricula to support core subjects, providing access to enrichment and elective courses to support student engagement, and schedule structured advisory periods to support student connectedness and include common planning time for teachers to plan instruction collaboratively.

Our staffing guidelines have been set in collaboration between various departments, therefore class sizes and programs will be equitable with this merger and across our district.

Each year  the district will review enrollment for each campus, along with student course requests to staff campuses accordingly.  Each year will vary on the amount of teachers allotted for a campus, given that course requests will fluctuate. 

District administrators will staff the school with the appropriate number of campus administrators, based on our FWISD staffing guidelines. 

Yes, students across grade levels will share the elective teachers “specials,” and we will work with our campus administrators on the master schedule to minimize the amount of crossover and co-mingling across grade levels.

We do not anticipate the Texas Education Agency taking over Fort Worth ISD at this time.

The Board of Trustees will receive all feedback from the Listening Sessions.  Stakeholder input, along with enrollment projections and facility deficiencies, will be utilized to make the best decision for the students of FWISD and the FWISD community.

If our Board of Trustees decide to not move forward with the feasibility study for consolidating McLean 6, McLean Middle School and Daggett then we will continue with the 2021 bond renovations for Daggett Middle School. The renovations will continue to support the current enrollment and projected enrollment for all three campuses. 

FWISD has been experiencing a decline of enrollment before the Covid pandemic. The decline is due to multiple factors, but two that we are able to identify are decrease in birth rate and increase of charter campuses within FWISD attendance boundaries. 

The decline in enrollment starts in the elementary years, and now our secondary campuses are starting to see the impact through subsequent enrollment years. Charter schools usually open their campuses to enroll grades K-2 and then add a grade level each year. 

Fort Worth ISD also attempted to reach out to parents who did not return to the district for the 2023-24 school year. Staff made phone calls to the parents to collect data for not only the reason for their students not returning, but also where their student would be attending school for the year. 

6th grade: 129 students

7th grade: 126 students

8th grade: 133 students

There has not been a decision on selling any property nor how consolidated buildings would be used for future use. It is very difficult to purchase property in Fort Worth ISD attendance boundaries, so there is not a current plan to sell properties.  

Community feedback is extremely important for decision-making to our Board of Trustees.

For the Paschal Pyramid, the study was conducted to determine the feasibility of combining the three middle schools within the Paschal Pyramid without a change to attendance zones or any disruption to students.

Current and projected enrollment data indicates this is the capacity needed if the campuses within the Paschal Pyramid are consolidated.

Fort Worth ISD is always watching the state Legislature and its policies. We would monitor the situation closely and adjust accordingly if needed.

The enrollment forecasts are produced using information from both internal (historical trends, program shifts) and external (housing/development data, charter impacts) sources. FWISD has managed the projection process internally in recent years but occasionally engages vendors/firms for an outside perspective. Refreshed enrollment projections are within the scope of the district's Facility Master Plan consultant (HPM).

A consolidation of the three Paschal feeders (McLean 6, McLean MS and Daggett MS) would represent the largest middle school campus in FWISD in the 2027-28 school year at approximately 1,450 students. In the last decade, the largest FWISD middle school enrollments were at Rosemont MS (1,310 in 2021-22) and JP Elder MS (1,290 in 2017-18).  William James MS and McLean MS (7-8 campus) have also enrolled well over 1,000 students in recent years. 

FWISD has been experiencing a decline of enrollment before the Covid pandemic. The decline is due to multiple factors, but two that we are able to identify are decrease in birth rate and increase of charter campuses within FWISD attendance boundaries. 

The decline in enrollment starts in the elementary years, and now our secondary campuses are starting to see the impact through subsequent enrollment years. Charter schools usually open their campuses to enroll grades K-2 and then add a grade level each year. 

Fort Worth ISD also attempted to reach out to parents who did not return to the district for the 2023-24 school year. Staff made phone calls to the parents to collect data for not only the reason for their students not returning, but also where their student would be attending school for the year. 

6th grade: 129 students

7th grade: 126 students

8th grade: 133 students

There has not been a decision on selling any property nor how consolidated buildings would be used for future use. It is very difficult to purchase property in Fort Worth ISD attendance boundaries, so there is not a current plan to sell properties.  

Community feedback is extremely important for decision-making. Our Board of Trustees 

For the Paschal Pyramid, the study was conducted to determine the feasibility of combining the three middle schools within the Paschal Pyramid without a change to attendance zones or any disruption to students.

Current and projected enrollment data indicates this is the capacity needed if the campuses within the Paschal Pyramid are consolidated.

Fort Worth ISD is always watching the state Legislature and its policies. We would monitor the situation closely and adjust accordingly if needed.

The following project priorities were identified for middle school renovations:

1. Security & Life Safety

2. Building Envelope (roof, windows, doors, etc.)

3. Learning Environments

4. Systems & Components

5. Capacity

Bond 2021 construction budgets for each campus will focus on the above priorities, addressing as many deficiencies as the budget will allow. In no instance is there enough funding available to address every deficiency or pain point that exists.

If the district moves forward with building a new middle school combining three campuses, students will remain on their current campus during construction.

This will be determined during the design process with input from all stakeholders. Additionally, campus principals will be strategically planning for ways to minimize interaction between grade levels throughout the day.

TEA Facility Standards establish the requirements for new construction and are specific to each instructional and common area within a school building. A middle school classroom must include a minimum of 32 square feet per student. With a student to teacher ratio of 28:1, this equates to classrooms sized at a minimum of 896 square feet.

The earliest facility standards available on the TEA website apply to campuses built between 1992 and 1994. At that time, the minimum square footage for a middle school campus was 700 square feet.  

The average square footage of classrooms for campuses under consideration is:

Daggett MS - 709

Kirkpatrick - 714

McLean 6 - 714

McLean MS - 697

Morningside - 681

William James - 714

Competitions will be hosted at an alternate FWISD location. Practices will be at a site to be negotiated if it is determined that the project, once approved, will be impacted.

All of the pain points addressed in the presentation regarding the McLean MS campus cannot be addressed with the current budget; however, we will work to address as many as possible if renovations continue.

We appreciate the community’s support of the 2017 bond and the impact the dollars had at Paschal HS. Bond 2017 funds were utilized to address as many deficiencies/pain points as possible; however, funding was insufficient to address every identified need.  

This is also true of planned renovations of Stripling MS. The district is grateful of the community’s support of the 2021 bond as renovations to middle school campuses would not be possible without the community’s commitment to improved educational facilities; however, available funding is insufficient to address all identified needs.

The school board will vote on whether or not it will move forward on combining McLean 6th, McLean Middle and Daggett Middle and building one middle school. The district anticipates that a vote will happen in May. That vote will be open to the public. The public already voted on the bond and approved it.

Our bond counsel advised us that the proposition, as written, would allow for the scope of the projects to be changed. Should it be determined that this is the best course of action for the students of FWISD and the FWISD community, the Board of Trustees will adopt a resolution.

We are evaluating these options to ensure that we provide educational facilities that, over time, will best meet the instructional needs of FWISD students while ensuring operational efficiency and safety. At this time, no changes have been made.

The district is currently creating a master plan for all FWISD facilities. Depending on the decision made by the Board of Trustees, the plan will include potential options for McLean 6 and Daggett MS campuses.

The $77 million budget discussed during the Paschal pyramid presentation is for construction of a new facility. It does not include other costs such as architectural fees, construction and project management, required assessments, permitting and furniture, fixtures and equipment, etc.

All stakeholders will have an opportunity to provide input into the design of new facilities.

Many of the delays associated with Rolling Hills Elementary were related to it being within a new development. This will not be a factor with any of the proposed projects.

The budget is not sufficient to combine the three campuses into one by renovating and expanding the current facility. This is primarily due to an increased timeline.

Yes.

This is not possible with the current budgets. Equally important is that it is not possible without the disruption of students. Students at both McLean 6 and Daggett MS would have to be moved from the campuses during construction.

We currently have three 6th grade centers that are stand alone facilities; McLean 6th grade, Wedgwood 6th grade and Leadership Academy of Forest Oak 6th grade. 

Wedgwood 6 grade will be consolidating with Wedgwood Middle School for the 2024-25 school year. 

The Leadership Academy of Forest Oak 6th grade (located on the Glencrest 6th grade facility) will be moving to Forest Oak Middle School for the 2024-25 school year. The two campuses have been functioning under one campus number since October. This is part of our partnership with Texas Wesleyan.

• Dunbar 6th transitioned to Young Men’s Leadership Academy in 2012

• Leonard 6th transitioned to World Language Institute in 2012

• Rosemont 6th transitioned to Applied Learning Academy in 2021
  
  

Existing budgets can be utilized for the renovation of campuses; however, current budgets do not allow us to address all deficiencies within each facility.

It is not anticipated that new facilities would open in 2027-28 at capacity; therefore, space would be available should enrollment trends change.

Deficiencies for each middle school campus were identified prior to the community’s vote for the 2021 bond in order to establish budgets for each campus.

There is not a current design. The feasibility studies informed the FWISD Board of Trustees and administration that a new school building is feasible based on enrollment projections, educational specifications, land available, and budget. The design process will begin if a design is made to build new facilities utilizing 2021 bond funds.

There is not a current design. At present, it will be designed to accommodate a functional capacity of 1,500 students.

Impacts to students would be monitored throughout the construction process to ensure minimization. The known impact, at this point, for the Paschal Pyramid will be with activities that occur on the outdoor field and track.

The feasibility study takes into consideration inflation over the design and construction period.  

Here is a link to the presentation.

Auditoriums are a priority for the Board of Trustees.

If that were to happen, we would have that conversation with the state then. But the district does not anticipate that happening at this time.

The site is not large enough to accommodate the proposed consolidation.

The plan creates operational efficiencies that will positively impact the district’s general operating budget.  Bond funds would be utilized to support the construction of new facilities should the Board of Trustees decide to do so.

Staffing allocations will be made based on the number of teachers needed to support enrollment projections.  This occurs on an annual basis.

There is no current design; however, there will be be enough classrooms to support the projected number of students.

It is possible that there could be days where construction activities limited the ability of students to go outdoors for lunch.

This will be thoughtfully determined based on demographic data.

This has not been determined.

Auditoriums are a priority for the Board of Trustees.  This will be determined based on design and budget.

This would mean that the McLean 6th grade campus would not receive any renovations as all budgets are necessary to build the new facility.

The FWISD has Technical Design Guidelines that ensure the use of standardized, high-quality materials.

No vote is required.  The bond language allows the funds to be utilized for renovation or the building of a new facility.

Stakeholder groups will be formed to support the consolidation/combination of campuses should the Board of Trustees make a decision to do so.

Renovation will be disruptive for students.  The district will work with contractors to minimize disruptions as much as possible.

The maximum capacity of the campus will exceed 1700.

This will be determined during design with input from campus stakeholders.

The information presented was conceptual, not a final design.

There is no need for additional feasibility studies at this time.

The options are to renovate existing campuses or consolidate/combine the campuses and build a new facility while maintaining the current feeder pattern.

FWISD currently works with FWPD.

Any new construction will be based on the most current Texas Education Agency Facility Standards, currently dated 2021.

If the Board of Trustees votes to approve the consolidation of campuses and the building of a new facility in May, design will begin in June with an anticipated completion for the 2027-2028 school year.

This has not been determined.

The flow of traffic is expected to improve with the construction of a new facility based on the feasibility study.  Design to address this will begin if a decision is made to consolidate/combine campuses.