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#7121155 - 02/02/12 12:44 AM
Re: Mansfield is on steroids
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Registered: 05/14/10
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Loc: Garland/Lubbock, Tx
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Arlington has a higher population of families without kids in the house. Young couples, elderly couples, etc. Mansfield is growing because it is an easy commute to the city and offers good schools. Arlington still have more students being all 5 A schools. The difference between 4 and 5 a can make a big one, upwards of 3000 kids.
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#7121162 - 02/02/12 12:54 AM
Re: Mansfield is on steroids
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#7121165 - 02/02/12 01:05 AM
Re: Mansfield is on steroids
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Registered: 03/30/03
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Frisco's growth is like that. They've gone from 1 high school to 6 in what, about a decade? They've added almost 18,000 students in just 8 YEARS! Every time I have to visit that district, it seems they've built 5 new campuses. BTW, if you haven't seen the new administration building, it is unbelievable. Obviously, that is one district that isn't hurting for lack of money!
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#7121182 - 02/02/12 01:46 AM
Re: Mansfield is on steroids
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Registered: 10/24/04
Posts: 2589
Loc: grand prairie ,tx.
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I was looking a dallasnews.com and they have set up a mock UIL realignment, as the real one is coming up soon for high school athletics in Texas. I discovered that Mansfield now has six high schools. Two are 5A and the rest are 4A.
That's crazy. When I graduated high school at Arlington Lamar in 1999, Mansfield had one 4A high school. Now keep in mind that Arlington also has six high schools. Now all but one are 5A. What is crazy is that they have the same number of high schools, yet the population of the two cities is a long ways apart. According to the 2010 census, Mansfield had a population of 56,368, and Arlington boasted a population of 365,438. How is it that with a difference of over 300,000 people these two cities have the same number of high schools? Mansfield school district covers a large portion of Arlington,Arlington was lax in annexing and Mansfield beat them to the punch,a big screwup on Arlingtons part.
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#7121758 - 02/02/12 09:00 AM
Re: Mansfield is on steroids
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Registered: 02/11/09
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Loc: Mansfield-ish
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Ratz, we're growing by leaps and bounds down here. Also, while I technically live in Grand Prairie, all my neighbors kids go to Mansfield schools. I also know they're building another high school just down the road from me, and its going to be on the Mansfield side of Day Miar.
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#7121802 - 02/02/12 09:11 AM
Re: Mansfield is on steroids
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The explosion of growth in Frisco has been phenominal to see.
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#7121878 - 02/02/12 09:28 AM
Re: Mansfield is on steroids
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Registered: 11/07/06
Posts: 465
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A lot of Mansfield's enrollment isn't in Mansfield city limits. A lot comes from Grand Prairie, Arlington, Kennedale, Burleson (Rendon), Fort Worth (Rendon), etc.
Your point about exponential growth is well taken, but Mansfield was 5A in 1999. They were in district 7-5A with all of the Arlington Schools, Duncanville and Desoto.
I was the last graduating class of one high school in Mansfield and it was large. We had to use two campuses all four years I was there...
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#7122041 - 02/02/12 10:03 AM
Re: Mansfield is on steroids
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Registered: 07/11/06
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Loc: ARLINGTON
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A lot of Mansfield's enrollment isn't in Mansfield city limits. A lot comes from Grand Prairie, Arlington, Kennedale, Burleson (Rendon), Fort Worth (Rendon), etc.
Your point about exponential growth is well taken, but Mansfield was 5A in 1999. They were in district 7-5A with all of the Arlington Schools, Duncanville and Desoto.
I was the last graduating class of one high school in Mansfield and it was large. We had to use two campuses all four years I was there...
So my memory is off. I was hammered all of high school. All I remember was Mansfield was a small town way South of me in North Arlington.
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#7122101 - 02/02/12 10:14 AM
Re: Mansfield is on steroids
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Registered: 11/07/06
Posts: 465
Loc: Dallas
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After re-reading my post, it looked like I was being an arse... that wasn't my intention and I apologize.
What I can't get over are all of the athletes that come out of Mansfield on a regular basis. It wasn't like that 10 years ago. I could count on one hand the number of D1 athletes that came out of Mansfield in the four years I was there. Its crazy...
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#7122155 - 02/02/12 10:24 AM
Re: Mansfield is on steroids
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Registered: 08/24/05
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I believe they have open enrollment, so that will also help with those numbers.
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#7122190 - 02/02/12 10:31 AM
Re: Mansfield is on steroids
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Registered: 11/30/08
Posts: 1468
Loc: Clean Seguin
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Seguin still has just 1 high school.
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#7122374 - 02/02/12 11:20 AM
Re: Mansfield is on steroids
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Registered: 07/25/07
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Loc: Waxahachie
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My wife started working for Mansfield ISD in about 01 and they had just 5 schools, now there are 42 Schools!!!!!
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#7122506 - 02/02/12 11:45 AM
Re: Mansfield is on steroids
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Registered: 07/11/06
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Loc: ARLINGTON
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After re-reading my post, it looked like I was being an arse... that wasn't my intention and I apologize.
What I can't get over are all of the athletes that come out of Mansfield on a regular basis. It wasn't like that 10 years ago. I could count on one hand the number of D1 athletes that came out of Mansfield in the four years I was there. Its crazy... No not an arse at all. I was wrong, but that happens all the time.
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#7123554 - 02/02/12 03:48 PM
Re: Mansfield is on steroids
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Registered: 03/30/04
Posts: 2581
Loc: Justin, TX
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A lot of Mansfield's enrollment isn't in Mansfield city limits. A lot comes from Grand Prairie, Arlington, Kennedale, Burleson (Rendon), Fort Worth (Rendon), etc.
Your point about exponential growth is well taken, but Mansfield was 5A in 1999. They were in district 7-5A with all of the Arlington Schools, Duncanville and Desoto.
I was the last graduating class of one high school in Mansfield and it was large. We had to use two campuses all four years I was there...
My wife graduated from Mansfield in 1980. Her grandfather was the supt. there for years. They named the auditorium after him. Willie Pigg.
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#7124220 - 02/02/12 06:33 PM
Re: Mansfield is on steroids
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Registered: 01/24/05
Posts: 467
Loc: Arlington, TX
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I finished high school with the inaugural mansfield summit class. It was only the second h.s. in the district and it already had something like 2200 students. Like J Bays said, when there was just Mansfield high school there were two campuses. We would have to take bus shuttles between classes. But you go out there, especially in the east side of the district, i.e. south arlington, northease mansfield, south grand prairie, there has been an explosion of cheap $100-150,000 home developments in the last decade. With 360, 287, 157, and i-20 just to the north, it was a matter of time.
What's really shocking is the amount of talent coming out of those schools. Scout magnets right now.
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#7124298 - 02/02/12 06:54 PM
Re: Mansfield is on steroids
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Registered: 06/21/07
Posts: 13695
Loc: Dallas
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2200 students in 4 grades or 2?
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#7124326 - 02/02/12 06:59 PM
Re: Mansfield is on steroids
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Registered: 01/24/05
Posts: 467
Loc: Arlington, TX
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2200 students the first year (freshmen through senior). they were already constructing the next high school when that one opened. i don't think i remember a time since the 01-02 school year that they weren't building a new school.
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#7126011 - 02/03/12 08:01 AM
Re: Mansfield is on steroids
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Registered: 04/07/08
Posts: 1434
Loc: TX
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Our school is 1A. Has 290 kids from kindergarten to 12th grade  .
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