Daggett Middle School
Fort Worth Independent School District

E.M. Daggett Middle School is located in the Fort Worth Independent School District (FWISD) in Tarrant County. With a teaching staff of 35, including a full-time art specialist, D.M. Daggett addresses the educational needs of 731 students. The school has a dedicated art room facility that is fully equipped, but additionally addresses meaningful art connections in other classrooms

The school population is predominately Hispanic. Ratios of student to teachers reflect 17:1 for general classroom and 30:1 for visual arts. The district indicates 57.2% of students participate in the free or reduced lunch program.

Art resources available to E.M. Daggett include an arts-reference library, a large number of art texts (biographies, how-to,and history), multi-media CD, art prints,slides, videos, and teacher-resource guides. Equipment within the school includes video camera, slide projectors, tape machines, televisions and VCR, and a bookbinding machine. Six computer laboratories are available to students and all teachers have a personal computer. The Ethernet is available to all. Three Fort Worth art museums (Amon Carter Museum, Kimbell Museum, and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth) serve as art resources to the campus. This campus took a closed ballot to determine teacher interest in the Challenge and 100% of the faculty voted to participate.

Features

A Middle School, Multi-visit Museum Program
Daggett Honors Artist David Bates
Educational Exhibits at Daggett Middle School

E.M. Daggett Middle School

1108 Carlock Street
Fort Worth, TX 76110
p. 817/922-6550
f. 817/922-6996
Principal: Rhonda Fields
Art Specialist: Keri Huse

The Daggett APS Faculty Leadership Team:

Keri Huse (Art Specialist)
Camille Hornbeck
Bill Parks
Kaye Miles
Melanie Tate
Gary Watson