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With year over year gains of students, the neighboring Fort Worth Independent School District now has 18 high schools and 29 middle schools and 83 elementary schools. The district now boasts more than 86,000 students and plans to redesign, transform and revitalize the schools. Besides the Denton and Fort Worth Independent School Districts, DFW has many other fast-growing public school districts in popular areas and neighborhoods – some of which are expected to double in size in the next 10 years, including Northwest ISD. Located north of Fort Worth and west of the Dallas, the district has traditionally added more than 1,200 new students each year. Eagle Mountain-Saginaw, also located near Fort Worth, is another growing district, as are the Mansfield, Keller, Denton, and Southlake ISDs.
HIGHER EDUCATION: GREAT SCHOOLS, OPPORTUNITIES Interested in an advanced degree or ready to go back to school? With a wealth of two-year and technical/trade colleges; a thriving community college system in both Dallas and Forth Worth, private colleges and universities, and public four-year colleges and universities, the Dallas-Fort
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Northwest ISD, located north of Fort Worth and west of the Dallas, has traditionally added more than 1,200 new students each year.
Worth area offers multiple options for new and returning students. Consider that, in Fort Worth, there are more than 250,000 students enrolled in higher education here, with more than 35,000 degrees awarded annually. Dallas and Fort Worth area colleges and universities include Southern Methodist University, Texas Woman’s University (Denton), Dallas County Community College District, University of Texas at Arlington, Collin County Community College District, University of Texas at Dallas, University of North Texas, Tarrant County College, Texas Wesleyan University, Texas Christian University, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Remington College, Everest College, and the College of St. Thomas More.
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According to research, about half of the college students enrolled locally in the Dallas area attend one of the nine public community colleges that host more than 20 campuses in the region. Others attend one of the 19 public and private baccalaureate and graduate level institutions. With those kind of resources, it’s not surprising that the metroplex is a highly educated population – especially given the number of Fortune 500 companies here who demand the most talented employees to stay competitive. More than half of workers here that are 25 years of age and older have at least some college education, and more than 31 percent have earned a bachelor’s degree or other advanced degree. We’ve included a list of area colleges, universities and trade schools, in the
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