Congratulations to the Class of 2021!

  • 86

    Seniors in the Class of 2021

  • 121

    colleges where students were admitted 

  • $11.6

    million+ in scholarships and awards

  • $2.7

    million+ in scholarships utilized

  • 20

    AP Scholars, AP Scholars with Honors and AP Scholar with Distinction

  • 13

    National Merit Scholars, Finalists, Commended and the College Board Recognition Program National Hispanic Scholars

  • 47

    colleges and universities graduates will attend

  • 56%

    of graduates will attend out-of-state colleges and universities
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  • A longstanding tradition in the Lower School, the Rice Babies project is a rite of passage for all Fort Worth Country Day first-graders.

    Rice Babies Celebrates 29 Years

    First grade has been “birthing” rice babies for 29 years. The idea came to Fort Worth Country Day by way of teachers in New Orleans who presented about their success with the event at an Independent Schools Association of the Southwest (ISAS) conference, according to First-Grade Teacher Sheri Fuller. View this Rice Babies slideshow. 
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  • Fort Worth Country Day’s Class of 2021

    Fort Worth Country Day’s Class of 2021

    The 86 members of a small, yet mighty, Class of 2021 not only handled the college admission process successfully, they did so during a year that posed extraordinary challenges. “The pandemic caused tectonic shifts in the college admission process,” said Heath Einstein, Dean of Admission at Texas Christian University. “In a flash, students were homebound, unable to engage with their college search in traditional ways.”
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  • Xixi Hillman ’22 earned at 2021 Creative Writing Award from the from the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) Société Honoraire de Français.

    Junior Earns Creative Writing Award from AATF

    Xixi Hillman ’22 earned at 2021 Creative Writing Award from the from the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) Société Honoraire de Français for her piece, “Hortense Laborie dans le film ‘Les Saveurs du Palais.’” She received a check for $100 and is published in the latest issue of L’Elan, the organization’s spring newsletter. 
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  • Congratulations to FWCD's three College-Sponsored National Merit Scholars!

    Three Seniors Earn College-Sponsored National Merit Scholarships

    Each May, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) releases its college-sponsored Merit Scholarship winners for use at the institution that is financing it. Paul Alexander ’21is a recipient of the National Merit Southern Methodist University Scholarship. Jack Ethridge ’21 has been awarded the National Merit Texas A&M University Scholarship. Henry Lynn ’21 has been offered the National Merit University of Chicago Scholarship.
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4200 Country Day Lane, Fort Worth, TX 76109
Phone: 817.732.7718
Fort Worth Country Day (FWCD) is a JK-12 private, independent, coeducational, nondenominational college-preparatory school located on approximately 100 acres in Fort Worth, Texas. The mission of Fort Worth Country Day School is to foster the intellectual, physical, emotional, and ethical development of capable students through an academically rigorous college preparatory program that integrates the arts and athletics.
Fort Worth Country Day has an institutional commitment to the principles of diversity. In that spirit, the School does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability or national origin in admissions, the administration of its educational policies, financial aid, athletics, and other School-administered programs.

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    Fort Worth Country Day is committed to understanding and respecting differences. To further support that initiative, FWCD is focused on making the information on our website accessible to all students, parents, and other members of the community. Achieving our goal of making the FWCD website fully accessible requires auditing numerous sections and correcting elements with minimal disruption for daily users.

    We appreciate your patience as we transition our content to a format that more closely adheres to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Additionally, some pages of the FWCD website may contain links to third-party sites that do not comply with accessibility standards and not within the range of the School’s control.

    For questions about the FWCD website, please contact Digital Media and Content Manager, Reggie Johnson at reggie.johnson@fwcd.com.

    Learn more about Fort Worth Country Day’s Mission, Philosophy, Core Values and Commitment to Inclusivity at fwcd.org/mission.