NISD’s board of trustees voted unanimously to name the high school after Davis at a regular meeting Dec. 8.
The details
The district’s fourth high school, to be located near I-35 and SH 170 in Fort Worth, will start receiving students from Tidwell and Worthington middle schools for the 2027-28 school year, according to the district. The new school will also mitigate student populations at Eaton and Byron Nelson high schools.
The school will open with freshmen and sophomores and add a new grade level each year after that. The high school is located on land where JFD Farms, the dairy farm owned by the Davis family, once operated.
Davis served the NISD board for 12 years in the 1960s and 1970s, according to the district. His family has remained active in the district since he passed away in 1998.
“Dad believed in the power of education,” Anne Simpson, the daughter of Davis and a school board member from 2013-25, said at the meeting Dec. 8. “He believed in how it could lift people and take them forward.”
The background
The facility is under construction with funds from a May 2023 bond approved by voters. Roughly $1.7 billion of the nearly $2 billion bond is being used for a number of new facilities to address the district’s growth, including an agricultural science center and four early childhood centers.
