Fort Davis Independent School District

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fort Davis Independent School District is a public school district based in the community of Fort Davis in unincorporated Jeff Davis County, Texas (USA).

Fort Davis, like other Texas communities, formerly had racially-segregated schools[1], with the "white" school on the site of the present-day Fort Davis High School. The "Mexican school" was located at the current site of Dirks-Anderson Elementary School in Fort Davis.

[edit] Schools

• Fort Davis High School (Grades 7-12)
• Dirks-Anderson Elementary (Grades PK-6)
• High Frontier School (Serves the students enrolled in the High Frontier Treatment Center)

[edit] References

• National Parks Service - Fort Davis Administrative History - Chapter Two: Closing a Fort, Preserving a Memory: Private Power and Public Initiative in Fort Davis, 1890-1941 Discusses racially segregated schools in Fort Davis.

[edit] External links

• Fort Davis Independent School District. Official site.

v • d • e 2007 Texas Education Agency Accountability Rating Exemplary · Recognized · Academically Acceptable · Academically Unacceptable · Not Rated: Other