{"id":404203,"date":"2026-08-12T04:28:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T04:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/404203\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T04:28:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T04:28:52","slug":"fort-worth-isd-to-close-a-m-pate-elementary-named-for-local-businessman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/404203\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth ISD to close A.M. Pate Elementary, named for local businessman"},"content":{"rendered":"

A.M. Pate Elementary School<\/a> is one of several schools Fort Worth ISD will close over the next three years.<\/p>\n

In May 2025, the Fort Worth school board voted 8-0<\/a> to approve a plan to shutter 16 schools between 2026 and 2029. Previously, the district voted to close two schools in June 2025.<\/p>\n

These closures are part of the district’s facilities master plan, which is intended to help Fort Worth ISD manage revenue loss from declining enrollment.<\/p>\n

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A.M. Pate Elementary (3800 Anglin Drive) is closing in June 2027. The school is named after a Fort Worth businessman and philanthropist.<\/p>\n

Here’s what to know about the man behind the name.<\/p>\n

\"Adlai<\/p>\n

Adlai McMillan Pate Sr.\u2019s obituary in the Nov. 7, 1947, edition of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.<\/p>\n

A Fort Worth businessman<\/p>\n

Adlai McMillan Pate Sr. was born on Nov. 9, 1894 in Gainesboro, Tenn.<\/p>\n

Pate came to Fort Worth in 1922 and founded the Panther Oil and Grease Manufacturing Company, which is now called the Texas Refinery Corporation.<\/a> The company is still located in Fort Worth and run by the Pate family.<\/p>\n

Before he arrived in Cowtown, Pate served in France during World War I, according to his obituary in the Star-Telegram. He also served as the director of the Southwestern Petroleum Company and president of the American Lubricants Company.<\/p>\n

Pate died on Nov. 6, 1947. He was 52.<\/p>\n

According to Find a Grave<\/a>, Pate is buried at Laurel Land\u2013Rose Hill Memorial Park in east Fort Worth.<\/p>\n

\"A.M.<\/p>\n

A.M. Pate Elementary School is photographed on Aug. 2, 2025.<\/p>\n

Naming dedication<\/p>\n

Pate’s wife, Marie, donated the land for A.M. Pate Elementary.<\/p>\n

The school was completed in September 1958, but did not open until February 1959 because of unfinished streets around the building. The school had a dedication for its namesake in April 1959, according to the Star-Telegram archives.<\/p>\n

In 1968, Fort Worth’s parks and recreation board accepted a five-acre tract next to the school from A.M. Pate Jr. and his brother Siebert Pate. The land was developed into Marie F. Pate Park.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A.M. Pate Elementary School is one of several schools Fort Worth ISD will close over the next three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[141589,116,118,8257,117,141590,16161,2870],"class_list":["post-404203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-a-m-pate-elementary-school","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-isd","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-pate-family","tag-star-telegram","tag-taylor-sheridan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}