how does one district service multiple towns (Fort Worth, North Richland Hills: real estate, chapel)

[amom]

I've been researching a few schools & I"m a bit confused. It seems as one district service multiple towns. Do you not just go to the school that is closest to your home? Is there some sort of lottery system?

[Guingirl]

No lottery system, you go to the closest school to your home for public schools. The state has it broken down to Independent School Districts. So there is no state income tax, but on general property taxes are higher than other places.

Property taxes range from 2.5% to 3.5%+. The largest portion of your property taxes go to your local Independent School District or ISD.

Generally on property listings it will say which school district the property is serviced by and which elementary, middle, intermediate and high school. You can research each school and district through www.greatschools.net and it will show you their TAKS scores (local yearly tests that teachers hate) and feedback from other parents of students that go there.

TEA rates schools and districts by E-Exemplary, R-Recognize, AA - Academically Acceptable. I personally think it is a good primer to gadge different schools, but you really need to get in and talk to prospective neighbors or ask on here about a particular school to see if anyone has any feedback.

[hypocore]

The easiest way to understand that is to know that there are multiple cities in the county and they each have their own specific boundaries. Then completely separate from that are the school districts which have their own boundaries that generally do not coincide with the cities.

The most challenging one, in my opinion, is the Birdville ISD. They cover some homes in Fort Worth, Richland Hills, North Richland Hills, Haltom City, Watagua, and Hurst.

Fort Worth has homes that fall into several different districts besides the Fort Worth ISD.

It's just something you learn to check out and never assume. :-)

[loves2read]

The state of TX in its wisdom allowed the establishment of separate school districts not tied to the city/county location of said ISD...go figure--so in states like FL where all public schools in Sarasota or Dade Co fall into that country's ISD--in TX it is a crazy quilt of overlying areas---
any good real estate search site has the schools district and the city and county boundaries---but within the school isd boundaries, houses can be shifted from one local school to another based on attendance and other issues--so don't assume that the "local" school will always be the same one from one year to the next--Keller ISD is going through some major problems with reshuffling attendance zones and many people are NOT happy....
Keller ISD and Birdville both have many cities within their boundaries
and many homes west of 377 which have Keller ISD schools and a Keller mailing address are actually in FTW city limits -- which is one of the minor frauds that have been played on the home-buying public in my opinion over the years--people would not have been so quick to buy those homes if they said FTW address with Keller schools--it is a marketing issue and the developers won...

[quintafemm]

I live in Fort Worth but in the White Settlement ISD. IT is perfect. The area is called Chapel Creek.