What happens after Tanglewood? After 5th grade, students who are zoned to Tanglewood move up through the “Paschal Pyramid.” Continue reading to see why we are so proud to be a part of this pyramid.
McLean 6th Grade:
McLean Middle School (7th and 8th)
McLean Middle School (MMS) has two high school CTE courses: General Employability Skills, which gives an overview of the 16 career clusters and the types of jobs available within this clusters. This course is for 7th graders, and gives HS credit. In 8th grade, students can take keyboarding and professional communication. Prof Com counts towards the high school speech credit.
Academic high school courses include algebra and geometry, English 1, biology or introduction to chemistry and physics, and geographic themes and perspectives. World language courses such as French, Spanish, and Latin also earn high school credit, but unless the student is enrolled in native speaker Spanish, they must take two years of the same language in middle school and then enroll in the language in high school before the credit is earned.
Top Notch Sports — Cross Country, Football, Volleyball, Basketball, and Track. Soccer is only offered for 8th graders.
Fine Arts: Vibrant and award winning band, choir, orchestra and theater programs. Each has booster club support and regularly puts on performances that are open to the public.
- Extra Curricular Activities: Whiz Quiz, Math Counts, Battle of the Books, Spelling Bee, Art Club, French Club, Chess Club, PALS (general education students working with our special needs students either in a teacher-assistant setting, or within a class such as PE or Theater. MMS also offers newspaper and yearbook classes.
Paschal High School (9th – 12th)
- Gold Seal Programs of Choice
- Paschal had 618 students take 1535 AP Exams in May 2018 and currently has 176 AP scholars. The most in Fort Worth!
- Paschal has over 30 college-level courses making it the Top Advanced Placement (AP) Program in Fort Worth.
- Paschal leads FWISD in SAT averages.
- Paschal leads Tarrant County in National Merit and Minority Scholars with 46 awards this year.
- Paschal has 11 National Merit Semifinalists (out of 14 in the entire FWISD). This is more than any private school in Fort Worth and more than any high school in the Dallas or Arlington ISDs.
- Paschal leads FWISD in number of National Merit Honorees.
- Paschal’s seniors led this area in number and dollar amounts of scholarships with over $32 million in scholarship offers.
- Students go on to over 200 colleges, including Yale, University of Pennsylvania, M.I.T., Stanford, Duke, Vanderbilt, and many more.
- Paschal leads FWISD in number of Distinguished Achievement Graduates.
- Paschal students have led the district for many years in the American Mathematics Competitions.
- The Paschal Computer Programming team traveled to and won numerous state wide competitions.
- Paschal choral, orchestral, and symphonic band students have recently won All-State recognitions. The choir was invited to perform in Austria the summer of 2009.
- The Vagabonds (drama) present at least 4 plays each year – a Shakespeare play, a musical, and one-act plays both in competition and student-directed.
- Students have a variety of sports to compete in: Baseball, Basketball (Boys and Girls), Cross Country, Cheerleading, Football, Golf, Power Lifting, Purple Elite, Soccer (Boys and Girls), Softball, Swimming, Tennis, Volleyball, and Wrestling.