North Side High School (Fort Worth, Texas)

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North Side High School is a public high school in Fort Worth, Texas, part of the Fort Worth Independent School District. It serves about 1,600 students in grades 9–12. The current campus is at 2211 McKinley Avenue. The school colors are maroon and white, and the mascot is the Steers. The school’s motto is Pride Of North Side.

The school’s roots go back to the late 1800s. A small community built several schools to serve North Fort Worth, starting with the Marine School in 1872. Over the years, North Side High School evolved from these early schools. The first football team began in 1909, and the colors maroon and white were adopted in 1911. The current North Side building opened in 1937–38 on the site of the old Stripling Dairy. It was designed by Wiley G. Clarkson and built with help from New Deal programs (PWA and WPA).

The 15-acre campus includes the main three-story building (completed in 1938), a field house, a tech lab/auto shop (added in the late 1950s), a one-story middle wing, the Pete Campbell Activity Center (opened in 1987), and a newer two-story building (completed in 2002). The school has athletic fields for football, soccer, baseball (1996) and softball (2001). Some older structures were removed, but the school remains a Fort Worth landmark with a long-standing tradition in academics and athletics.