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FroginBedford68

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For at least 70 years, Paschal has been unofficially considered to be the "school board's school"....It is the great-grand X 4 campus in the FWISD, and is likely to not be seriously considered for purchase, even if it would be simpler and perhaps more economically desirable to buy it....Moving north across Lowden to McPherson and east from Townsend to Cleburne Road seems to be more likely for FWISD to be able to upgrade facilities....That location on Forest Park was the original site of Southwest Junior High in the 1930s, renamed under community pressure to McLean....Junior High moved to a newly-constructed campus (it's still there) on Stadium in 1955 and the Forest Park location was designated as Paschal....Paschal's campus on Cannon was turned over to Technical High School (now Trimble Tech), moving it away from sharing the Elder Junior High (now Middle School) campus....
 
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Mean Purple

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businessofsport said:
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FWISD has issued the above statement that this is a false rumor.​


Paschal is not on any closure or consolidation list. FWISD adopted a Facilities Master Plan in May 2025 to close 18 campuses through June 2029, most of them elementary schools: S.S. Dillow, Eastern Hills, Kirkpatrick, Nash, Riverside ALC, Briscoe, De Zavala, A.M. Pate, J.T. Stevens, Atwood McDonald, West Handley, Harlean Beal and others. The state-appointed board of managers later added International Newcomer Academy and accelerated De Zavala, bringing the June 2026 total to seven schools and the through-2029 count to 19. Paschal appears on none of these. It remains the oldest and largest high school in the district, with 2,215 students enrolled for 2025–26, and the district has been putting money into the building — a contractor lists a multi-phased renovation of the roughly 250,000-square-foot building with two small additions. Districts don't phase renovations into a campus they're about to sell.

What is closing and being sold: Fort Worth ISD votes to close 18 schools over the next 5 years | FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth +3

FWISD is selling real estate — but not this. Under the TEA takeover, the district is monetizing property. Officials solicited a roughly $250 million mixed-use redevelopment of the land surrounding Farrington Field, with the stadium itself preserved; trustees had discussed the property in closed session at least five times since June 2025 before authority shifted to the state-appointed board. The precedent is the 2020 sale, where the district sold its administration building for nearly $5 million and nearby properties for $13 million, enabling a $1.7 billion residential and retail development. Farrington Field is the asset in play. Paschal will receive additional investment.


TCU's growth is pointed the wrong direction from such an opportunity: TCU's master plan is a 35-project plan approved by the board of trustees, with a $500 million expansion announced in April, focused on student housing, retail, academic renovations and an athletics district, with American Campus Communities developing 11 buildings.

Roughly 2,450 beds are planned across four campus locations, including a 1,322-bed first-year cluster east of Gutierrez Dining Hall, alongside the Morado on Berry mixed-use project. The specific parcels are all south and west: 2900 West Berry St. (587 beds) and 3024 Cockrell Ave. (192 beds), plus rezoning applications for a block at Sandage Avenue and West Bowie Street, a parking lot at Merida and West Lowden, part of a block between McCart and Sandage, and a lot at West Berry and West Devitt. Paschal sits at 3001 Forest Park Blvd, roughly a mile and a half northeast of campus, across Bluebonnet Hills and Frisco Heights, not contiguous with anything TCU owns. Nothing in the plan crosses that gap.

Learn more: TCU Campus Master Plan +4

The two institutions do have a formal relationship, which may be the source of the rumor: TCU and Paschal established an educational partnership, dedicated with a live oak planting, built around history, proximity and shared school colors. There's also a fundraising tie: Paschal athletics runs "Park for Paschal," now selling parking for TCU home football games as one of the school's biggest fundraisers. Partnership and parking revenue, not acquisition.
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Hasn't PHS always been a bit of a darling for FWISD?
 
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Mean Purple

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Maybe I'm old fashioned. (Well, yeah, that's frickin' obvious, MP), but considering the understandable concerns and worries families have when they hear about a possible school closing, it just seems like someone has to be a super league a-hole to put a dumb rumor out there like that.

Also, I have to admit, I got so busy with work this year, I was late to the picnic in knowing about the state taking over the district (school board and mgmt). When I saw it a few months ago a was somewhat shocked. Times change.
 
Big Frog II

Big Frog II

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Mean Purple said:
Maybe I'm old fashioned. (Well, yeah, that's frickin' obvious, MP), but considering the understandable concerns and worries families have when they hear about a possible school closing, it just seems like someone has to be a super league a-hole to put a dumb rumor out there like that.

Also, I have to admit, I got so busy with work this year, I was late to the picnic in knowing about the state taking over the district (school board and mgmt). When I saw it a few months ago a was somewhat shocked. Times change.
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Probably those Arlington Heights people. May need to drive a bulldozer through the school again.
 
4 Oaks Frog

4 Oaks Frog

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I have a friend who was a Deacon at University United Methodist Church. He said that TCU approached the church with an offer to purchase their building. The church passed on the deal.
Cubes Jewelers in that same line on Berry is a hard fast hold out NO SALE…
 
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gofor2

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When I first glanced at the thread title my brain saw, "Pachall" and I thought of Casey.

A quick second later, I looked again and saw Paschal and the confusion quickly lifted.
 

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