Diamond Hill-Jarvis High School

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Diamond Hill-Jarvis High School
Location
1411 Maydell Rd.
Fort Worth, TX, United States
Information
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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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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