Facilities Master Planning

Fort Worth ISD is currently undertaking a facilities master planning process. The intent of this process is to create a comprehensive facilities plan that not only identifies actionable items, but sets a vision for the future portfolio of facilities needed to accommodate trends in enrollment/demographics and academic programming and delivery models. Please refer to the district's Facilities Master Planning page for more information.

District-Wide Implications

The facilities master planning process has implications for every school and community in our district. Some schools may be more directly affected by potential closures or rezoning, but the entire district will be impacted by decisions made during this process.

Birth rates and other factors are projected to lead to declining district enrollment, which necessitates that the district take action to right-size its facilities portfolio or decrease spending/student programming across the board.

Resources with more information include:

The Paschal Pyramid

The image above shows the current Paschal Pyramid. The current feeder pattern is:

Note that the FWISD Board of Trustees has already approved the closure of Mc6 so that 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students in the McLean zone would attend MMS once certain construction changes are made at MMS.

Potential Changes to the Paschal Pyramid

Three "Options" for the Paschal Pyramid were presented by the District at the February 26 Community Meeting. Slides from that meeting are available here. The options are summarized below:

PTA Position Statement 

Regarding Fort Worth ISD

Facilities Master Planning

Lily B. Clayton Elementary PTA has adopted the following Position Statement Regarding Fort Worth ISD Facilities Master Planning (available as a PDF here):

Budget limitations, declining enrollment, and demographic changes necessitate that the District take action to right-size its facilities portfolio or decrease spending/student programming across the board.

With respect to the options for middle school changes presented by the Facilities Master Planning Task Force for the R.L. Paschal High School Pyramid (the “Paschal Pyramid”), available here, Lily B. Clayton Elementary PTA supports Task Force Option 2 [which was relabeled Option 3 at the February 26 Facilities Community Meeting] (the “Single Middle School Option”), which would close E.M. Daggett Middle School (“DMS”) and McLean 6th Grade Center (“Mc6”) so that all sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students in the Paschal Pyramid would feed into W. P. McLean Middle School (“MMS”). MMS would be rebuilt at 1,600 capacity [changed to 1,500 capacity at the February 26 Facilities Community Meeting] to accommodate all middle school students in the pyramid. The Single Middle School Option is the only approach that will align with student needs in an equitable manner across the Paschal Pyramid. The reasons we take this position include: 

Lily B. Clayton Elementary PTA notes that if De Zavala Elementary (“DZE”) closes as is proposed in both options presented by the Facilities Master Planning Task Force and a portion of the current DZE zone is rezoned to feed into LBC, Lily B. Clayton Elementary PTA will welcome the new members of our community. Further: 

Call to Action