{"id":454845,"date":"2026-10-03T02:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/454845\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T02:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:04:08","slug":"heavy-rains-force-fort-worth-middle-school-to-relocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/454845\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rains force Fort Worth middle school to relocate"},"content":{"rendered":"

W. A. Meacham Middle School students and teachers<\/a> are relocating after this week\u2019s heavy rains damaged their Fort Worth<\/a> school, leaving it unsafe for use.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The district notified families of the change in a letter Friday. According to a statement <\/a>on the school\u2019s website, safety teams and contractors deemed the \u201crepairs will require several weeks to complete.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe safety of our students and staff is our highest priority, and we cannot reopen the building until we are confident that the campus is fully safe and operational,\u201d the statement read.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meacham officials did not immediately respond to a Friday evening email request for comment on the closure.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fort Worth saw more than four inches of rain as storms swept through Dallas-Fort Worth on Thursday, according to the National Weather Service. The rain left portions of the middle school, which is currently undergoing renovations, \u201cunsafe for occupancy.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a result of the damage, officials canceled Monday\u2019s classes for all Meacham students. Meacham teachers and staff will still report to Briscoe Elementary School building for work on Monday. The elementary school currently stands unoccupied after district leadership voted to shutter the campus this summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Students will join their teachers at the Briscoe campus starting Tuesday, although it\u2019s unclear how long they\u2019ll remain there. Officials are working to \u201censure that learning continues with as little interruption as possible,\u201d with students remaining in their current courses and staying with their same teachers.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"W. A. Meacham Middle School students and teachers are relocating after this week\u2019s heavy rains damaged their Fort…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,58240,88643,89217],"class_list":["post-454845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-news-weather","tag-tp-fort-worth","tag-tp-tarrant-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454845","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=454845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}