TARRANT COUNTY, Texas — A new high school in a growing part of northwest Tarrant County near Eagle Mountain Lake welcomed its first students this week.
The $271 million Eagle Mountain High School campus was built as part of Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD’s 2017 $524.7 million bond program.
The inaugural first day of school for the new campus was Monday with 800 students in grades 9-11. A spokesperson for the school district said the school will serve students in grades 9-12 and the campus was built to house 2,400 students “as this area of Tarrant [County] continues to grow.”
The school at 3451 Bonds Ranch Road boasts large lecture halls, an expansive fine arts complex, and the school’s athletic facilities include a stadium, a fieldhouse with an indoor practice field and a weight room, and even a coffee shop the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports.
Basketball, gymnastics, dance and cheer also have their own gyms, the newspaper reported.
The campus is run on geothermal energy with more than 4,000 wells that pump water from a large pond to heat and cool classrooms.
This spring, developer Centurion American announced plans to build 1,100 single-family homes within a few miles of the new high school in an area bound by Peden Road to the north, Bonds Ranch Road to the south, and Morris Dido Newark Road to the west.