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Everybody in Fort Worth knows Tanglewood. Almost nobody gets the school zone right
Three of the things written about this neighborhood over and over are wrong — starting with which elementary school your house is zoned to. Here is what the city, the school district and the water district say, with the sources, so you can check us.
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Three things worth knowing first
Three things most descriptions of Tanglewood still get wrong. One of them changed in 2020.
That a Tanglewood address means Tanglewood Elementary.
Not since August 2020, when Overton Park Elementary opened and took the southern and western part of the zone.
That the neighborhood runs to Hulen Street.
It does not. The City of Fort Worth drew this boundary, and the Stonegate streets sit outside it on the west.
That there is an HOA.
Not in the way buyers usually mean. There is a voluntary neighborhood association with no dues obligation and no architectural committee, plus one small mandatory association inside the neighborhood. Your title commitment is what settles it for a specific address.
The schools
The relief campus isn’t coming. It came, in August 2020.
Families buy in Tanglewood for the elementary school. That is the honest reason, and it is why the most important sentence on this page is the one nobody else writes: the neighborhood is now split between two elementary schools. Fort Worth ISD opened Overton Park Elementary in August 2020, funded by the November 2017 bond, to relieve a Tanglewood campus that had outgrown itself. It took the southern and western portion of the old zone.
Tanglewood El, 2019-20
902
The year before the split.
Tanglewood El, 2020-21
426
Overton Park Elementary opens and takes the southern and western part of the zone.
Overton Park El, 2020-21
472
The other half of the same transfer, in its own building.
The two campuses today, 2025-26
541 + 533
Both rated A. Both in the Paschal feeder.
That middle year was also the first pandemic school year, so it is worth doing the addition: 426 plus 472 is 898, against 902 the year before. Between the two campuses, the children did not leave. They walked into a different building.
So the question for a buyer is not whether the schools are good. It is which one this house is zoned to — a question with two possible answers on the same street grid, and one the district’s own School Finder settles in a minute. Ask it before you write an offer, not after.
The Paschal feeder — Texas Education Agency ratings, 2026
- Tanglewood Elementary PreK–5 A 93/100
- Overton Park Elementary PreK–5 A 94/100
- McLean 6th Grade Grade 6 C 76/100
- W.P. McLean Middle 7–8 B 88/100
- R.L. Paschal High 9–12 B 87/100
Paschal’s four-year graduation rate is 95.9% (TEA, 2026 accountability release). Sixth grade is its own campus on its own street before students reach McLean Middle at all — write-ups that say Tanglewood “feeds McLean Middle” are two-thirds right. Ratings move every August; this page carries the 2026 set.
The boundary
The city drew this line. The best-known description of it gets three things wrong.
Tanglewood is not a rectangle. It is two lobes joined at the Overton Park greenbelt, with a third pocket on the far side of the park — which is why descriptions of it disagree so often. The neighborhood association publishes, as its boundary of record, an official City of Fort Worth map of the area. Approximately: Mockingbird Lane, with its north-east corner at Colonial Avenue on the north; Preston Hollow Road down to Bellaire Drive South, with Harlanwood Drive inside the line on the east; the Overton Park greenbelt, and west of it a third pocket bounded by Arborlawn Drive on the west; and Ledgeview Drive, near Fox Hollow and Ranch View Road at the southern end.
- Hulen Street is not the western edge — the Stonegate streets sit between it and the line.
- Simondale Drive is not on the line. It is outside it.
- Bellaire Drive South is not the southern edge — the neighborhood continues south to Ledgeview Drive.
It settles which streets are in and which are out. For a lot line, you want the survey.
The greenbelt
The park running through the middle of it is public, and so are the tennis courts.
Every figure in this section is the city’s own or the water district’s own, which is the point: the guides that print park numbers for this neighborhood cannot tell you where they got them, and the ones that cannot, print none. Several guides describe the tennis courts as a community amenity, which reads as something you have to live here to use. They are two public City of Fort Worth courts at the north end of a public park, open daily from 5:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. and bookable through the city’s own reservation system. The park itself is a linear greenbelt following the creek, and it chains south into Foster Park and on into Kellis Park, 16.3 acres with more tennis and pickleball.
Park
Size
Dedicated
Trails
Overton Park
Size48.68 acres
Dedicated1959
Trails1.76 miles
Foster Park
Size11.9 acres
Dedicated1952
Trails0.78 miles
And the trail in the greenbelt is not a cul-de-sac. The Tarrant Regional Water District’s own published trail data treats “Overton” as a named branch of the Trinity Trails, with its own trailheads at Foster Park and Kellis Park, meeting the Clear Fork mainline near Bellaire Drive South. From a house in Tanglewood you are on a system TRWD puts at more than 100 miles.
Road miles, measured from Overton Park
- TCU 2.5 mi
- The Shops at Clearfork 2.0 mi
- I-30 at Hulen 3.5 mi
- downtown Fort Worth 6.5 mi
Why the houses keep changing
Nothing here is protected, and nothing more is coming.
Cass Edwards II formed Cassco Land Company in 1955 to develop a 4,020-acre family ranch into what the newspaper advertisements of 1956 called “the finest, newest and most exclusive residential area in Fort Worth”. Out of it came Tanglewood and its siblings — Overton Park, Overton Crest and Overton Woods — and the school followed in 1960. That is the whole supply. The addition was platted out of the ranch in the 1950s and finished; no meaningful new inventory can appear here.
And Tanglewood carries no historic preservation zoning. A mid-century house on a good lot can lawfully come down — Historic Fort Worth put the neighborhood on its endangered list in 2013 for exactly that reason. You can read that as a loss or as an opportunity, and plenty of people here read it both ways in the same conversation. What it means practically is simple: on this street grid you are buying land with a house on it, and the question of whether to change the house is usually a question of when, not whether.
Our work here
You can know what the kitchen costs before your option period closes.
Tanglewood is not a neighborhood we read about: the three projects below are ours. Which means the two questions a Tanglewood buyer usually has to ask two different companies — what is this house worth, and what would it cost to make it right — get answered in one conversation, while your option period is still open.
New build
A Tanglewood house rebuilt
Taken down to the studs and put back as a different house on the same lot.
Remodel
A primary suite reworked
The bathroom, the dressing room and the way the two connect.
Room by room
A family home that needed to grow
Several rooms at once, for a family that wanted to stay on this street.
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Questions people ask about Tanglewood
The answers, with the source behind each one.
- Does a Tanglewood address mean my child goes to Tanglewood Elementary?
- Not automatically, and this is the single most common mistake made about this neighborhood. Fort Worth ISD opened Overton Park Elementary in August 2020, paid for by the November 2017 bond, and it took the southern and western portion of what had been the Tanglewood Elementary attendance zone. Tanglewood Elementary went from 902 students in 2019-20 to 426 the year Overton Park opened — and Overton Park's own first year was 472, which is 898 between them against 902 the year before. That year was also the first pandemic school year, which is exactly why the second campus's number matters: the children did not leave, they walked into a different building. Both campuses are rated A by the Texas Education Agency and both sit in the Paschal feeder. But which one a specific house is zoned to is a question with two possible answers, and the district's own School Finder is the only place to settle it before you write an offer.
- Is there a homeowners association in Tanglewood?
- Not in the sense most buyers mean. The Tanglewood Neighborhood Association is voluntary: its bylaws open membership to every resident, set dues by a committee vote, and contain no assessment obligation, no lien power and no architectural control committee anywhere in the document. Separately, a small enclave — Tanglewood Park Homes, roughly sixty lots resubdivided out of Block E — is a genuine mandatory property owners' association with a management certificate on file with Tarrant County and the State of Texas. Those are two different things. And deed restrictions can run with the land independently of any association, which is why the title commitment for a specific address — not this page, and not the registry — is what settles what you are actually buying into.
- Where does Tanglewood actually begin and end?
- The association publishes, as its boundary of record, an official City of Fort Worth map of the Tanglewood neighborhood organization. Approximately: Mockingbird Lane, with its north-east corner at Colonial Avenue on the north; Preston Hollow Road down to Bellaire Drive South, with Harlanwood Drive inside the line on the east; the Overton Park greenbelt, and west of it a third pocket bounded by Arborlawn Drive on the west; and Ledgeview Drive, near Fox Hollow and Ranch View Road at the southern end. It is not a simple rectangle: the area is two lobes joined at the Overton Park greenbelt, with a third pocket on the far side of the park. It settles which streets are in and which are out. For an individual lot line, you want the survey.
- Are the tennis courts a private neighborhood amenity?
- No. They are two public City of Fort Worth courts at the north end of Overton Park, inside a public park that is open daily from 5:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. and reservable through the city's own system. Several guides to this neighborhood describe them as a community amenity, which reads as private and is not what they are. Kellis Park, at the southern end of the same greenbelt, adds more tennis and pickleball.
- Why are so many houses here being torn down instead of remodeled?
- Because nothing prevents it and the land is worth more than the smaller houses on it. Tanglewood carries no historic preservation zoning, so a mid-century house on a good lot can lawfully be scraped — Historic Fort Worth added the neighborhood to its endangered list in 2013 for exactly that reason, describing single-story 1950s homes giving way to two-story new builds built out to the lot lines. And no meaningful new supply can appear, because the addition was platted out of a ranch in the 1950s and finished. Those two facts together are why land drives the price here, and they will still be true next year.
- Can 6th Ave Homes tell me what a remodel would cost before I buy?
- Yes, and it is the reason a buyer here often calls us rather than an agent alone. We are a design-build company and a brokerage in the same building. If you are weighing a Tanglewood house that needs something — a primary suite reworked, a kitchen opened up, a second story added — our designers and builders can put a number on the work while your option period is still open and you can still change your mind. An agent alone can tell you what the house is worth. Our builders can tell you what changing it would cost.
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Sources Verified September 2026. Park size, dedication dates and amenities: City of Fort Worth, Overton Park, Foster Park, Kellis Park and the Overton & Foster Park Master Plan. Trails: Tarrant Regional Water District. Schools, enrollment and ratings: Tanglewood Elementary, Overton Park Elementary, Fort Worth ISD feeder pyramids, Texas Education Agency, and FWISD School Finder for a specific address. Boundary: the City of Fort Worth neighborhood map published by the Tanglewood Neighborhood Association. Association status: the association’s own bylaws and the Texas HOA management-certificate registry. Origin and development: City of Fort Worth, Postwar Suburbanization and Development, 1946–1980. Teardown pressure: Historic Fort Worth. Assessed values for a specific house, under the subdivision name TANGLEWOOD ADDITION-FORT WORTH: Tarrant Appraisal District.