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<\/p>\nFORT WORTH, Texas – An under-construction Fort Worth ISD middle school sustained heavy enough damage during Thursday’s storms that it must be closed for weeks of repairs, forcing students and staff to temporarily relocate to a new building.<\/p>\n
Meacham Middle School damaged <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
Dr. Peter Licata, the Superintendent of Fort Worth ISD, announced that Meacham Middle School’s building will be shut down for several weeks.<\/p>\n
The building’s closure comes after heavy rainfall from Thursday’s storms caused the building to be “unsafe for occupancy,” according to Licata’s letter.<\/p>\n
Staff and students at Meacham Middle School will temporarily relocate to Briscoe Elementary School’s building, which is currently unoccupied, while the repairs at the middle school take place.<\/p>\n
Classes for Meacham Middle School students are canceled for Monday, Oct. 5, while staff moves over to the new building. Classes are expected to resume on Tuesday, Oct. 6.<\/p>\n
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Dig deeper:<\/p>\n
Meacham Middle School is currently undergoing renovations<\/a> as part of Fort Worth ISD’s 2021 bond program, with construction expected to be finished in the second quarter of 2027.<\/p>\n The school’s building was also closed on Thursday and Friday due to flooding from this week’s storms.<\/p>\n Briscoe Elementary School, where Meacham students and staff will relocate, is around 20 minutes south of the Meacham campus. It was closed<\/a> at the end of the 2025-26 school year due to declining enrollment.<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n “Most importantly, although students will report to a different building, they will remain Meacham Middle School students. Our goal is to preserve continuity and stability throughout this temporary transition,” Licata said in a statement to Meacham Middle School parents.<\/p>\n Licata says students will stay with their current teachers and remain enrolled in the same courses during the change.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this story comes from Fort Worth ISD.<\/p>\n Fort Worth ISD<\/a>Fort Worth<\/a>Education<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH, Texas – An under-construction Fort Worth ISD middle school sustained heavy enough damage during Thursday’s storms…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[163,116,118,8257,117,223,1827,122,216,393],"class_list":["post-454671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-education","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-isd","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-news","tag-organization","tag-tarrant-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454671","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=454671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}