- Diamond Hill-Jarvis High School
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Diamond Hill-Jarvis High School Location 1411 Maydell Rd.
Fort Worth, TX, United StatesInformation Type High School Motto All STUDENTS WILL LEARN Established 1951 School district Fort Worth Independent School District Head teacher Mrs. Gayla Dawson(57 faculty members) Grades 9 - 12 Enrollment 866 (as of September 7, 2006) Color(s) Scarlet and black Mascot Eagles Diamond Hill-Jarvis High School is a school in Fort Worth, Texas, United States which serves grades 9 through 12. The school is a part of the Fort Worth Independent School District. In 2006, it was placed 95th on Newsweek Magazine's Top 1200 High Schools list. One cheer at all football games was "lets go big red lets go, lets go big red lets go" this cheer is completed as the crowd repeats back as the cheerleaders throw sticks of Big Red gum to crowd.
The original Diamond Hill School was a two-roomed structure built in 1903 in the southeast corner of a pasture a few miles north of Fort Worth, Texas. It was situated at the same location as the house that now stands, facing east, on the corner of Twenty-eighth and Oscar streets on Diamond Hill. It was classified as a county school, and Mrs. Estes Ritchey was the first superintendent, Mr. W.F. Helkamp, Mr. S.M. Lawson, and Mr. Harry Stehrole were the trustees.
When questioned about this first building, most of the old settlers don’t seem to remember much about the faculty, students, or studies of the school, but they readily recall the fact that the schoolhouse was used for a school in winter and a shade for cattle in summer. It was quite familiar sight they say, to see cows grazing around the school, but more often they were seen lying in the shade of the schoolhouse. Many times the door of the house was carelessly left open, and the cows would wander into the building, but were always driven out before any damage was done.
Alma mater
As long as we live
Fondest memories will linger
To bring back the school days
We spent on the hill.
We’ll bless as we travel
The road to achievement
The friends we made
The plans we laid
At Diamond Hill.
Feeder patterns
Elementary schools that feed into Diamond Hill-Jarvis include Diamond Hill Elementary,Cesar Chavez Primary (PreK-2),Helbing Elementary, M.H. Moore, and Washington Heights.
W.H. Meacham Middle School and Kirkpatrick Middle School feed into Diamond Hill-Jarvis.
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Fort Worth Independent School District High schools Amon Carter-Riverside • Arlington Heights • Diamond Hill-Jarvis • Dunbar • Eastern Hills • North Side • Paschal • Polytechnic • South Hills • Southwest • Trimble Technical • Western Hills • WyattFootball stadiums Farrington Field • Herman Clark Stadium • Scarborough-Handley FieldBaseball field Categories:- High schools in Fort Worth, Texas
- High schools in Tarrant County, Texas
- Texas school stubs
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