Closing 3 schools
Bear Creek, Parkwood Hill, Trinity Meadows — closing ahead of 2027-28; saves $3M+/yr
City · Tarrant County
Keller
Population ~46,044 · keller-isd
Big-City Comforts, Small-Town Charm
☕ Keller brief Mon, Jun 1
Keller ISD: B
2024-25 rating; ~34k students across 8 cities
UIL state track
11 athletes competed May 14-16 in Austin
Founded 1882 (incorporated 1955)
Originally Athol, renamed for Texas Pacific foreman
Local News
Keller headlines
What's happening in Keller right now
Schools
Keller ISD voted in May 2026 to close three intermediate schools
The Keller ISD board voted on May 14, 2026 to close Bear Creek, Parkwood Hill, and Trinity Meadows intermediate schools ahead of the 2027-28 year, citing declining enrollment and projected annual savings of roughly $3 million to $3.75 million plus deferred capital. Source: Community Impact; Keller ISD.
May 14, 2026
Civic
Population about 46,000
Keller recorded 45,776 residents in the 2020 U.S. Census, ranking among the higher-income, higher-rated public-schools suburbs in Tarrant County. Source: U.S. Census; City of Keller.
Updated 2026
Schools
Keller ISD serves eight cities
Keller ISD's footprint includes Keller plus portions of Colleyville, Fort Worth, Haltom City, Hurst, North Richland Hills, Southlake, Watauga, and Westlake — making the district one of the most geographically multi-jurisdictional in Tarrant County. Source: Keller ISD.
Ongoing
Council
Council meets first and third Tuesdays
Keller's City Council meets on the first and third Tuesdays at 7 p.m. at Town Hall, 1100 Bear Creek Parkway. Source: City of Keller.
Ongoing
🎓 Schools
Keller ISD trustees approve closing three intermediate schools ahead of 2027-28
At its May 14 board meeting, Keller ISD trustees voted to close Bear Creek, Parkwood Hill, and Trinity Meadows intermediate schools ahead of the 2027-28 school year to reduce operating costs amid declining enrollment. The schools remain open for 2026-27. District officials project savings of $3M–$3.75M annually in operating costs and $39M in repair and capital improvement costs. Source: Community Impact.
🏃 Sports
Keller ISD sends 11 athletes to UIL State Track & Field, multiple medal-stand finishes
Keller ISD high school athletes competed at the UIL Class 5A and Class 6A State Track and Field Championships, held May 14–16, 2026 at the University of Texas in Austin. The district sent 11 athletes, several of whom earned medal-stand finishes. Source: Keller ISD newsroom.
From across Tarrant County
🗳️ Election
Contested mayor races in nine Tarrant cities on May 2 ballot
The May 2, 2026 ballot featured contested races for mayor in nine Tarrant cities: Arlington, Euless, Keller, Kennedale, North Richland Hills, Pelican Bay, Sansom Park, Westlake, and Westover Hills. The slate also included numerous city council positions, school board trustee seats, and other municipal offices across the county. Source: NBC 5 DFW / Tarrant County Elections.
🗳️ Politics
Taylor Rehmet (D) wins Texas State Senate District 9 special election
In Tarrant County's state Senate District 9 special election held November 4, 2025, Democrat Taylor Rehmet finished as the top vote-getter, ahead by roughly 14,000 votes and a margin of nearly 15%. Rehmet replaces Republican Kelly Hancock, who left the seat in 2025 to become acting state comptroller. Rehmet completes the remainder of Hancock's term. Source: NBC 5 DFW.
Around Town
Around Town
Keller's places, people, and traditions
Civic
Keller Town Hall and Town Square
Town Hall at 1100 Bear Creek Parkway anchors Keller's civic core alongside Town Square, the city's primary mixed-use commercial-civic district that hosts farmers' markets, holiday programming, and community events. Source: City of Keller.
Year-round
Park
Bear Creek Park
Bear Creek Park along Bear Creek Parkway is the city's largest park and offers trails, ballfields, and the central greenway connecting Town Hall to neighborhoods. Source: City of Keller Parks.
Year-round
Recreation
Keller Pointe Recreation and Aquatic Center
The Keller Pointe on Rufe Snow Drive is the city's flagship recreation and aquatic complex, with indoor pools, a fitness center, and city programming. Source: City of Keller.
Year-round
Civic
Keller Public Library
The Keller Public Library at 640 Johnson Road offers story times, summer reading, and meeting space — a heavily used branch by Tarrant County standards. Source: City of Keller.
Year-round
Heritage
Old Town Keller along S. Main Street
The Old Town Keller district along S. Main Street preserves a small cluster of pre-incorporation buildings and remains the historic heart of the community before Town Square was built to its north. Source: City of Keller; TSHA.
Year-round
Trail
Keller trails system
Keller's trail network connects Bear Creek Park, Town Hall, and neighborhood greenways, with continuing build-out along the Bear Creek and Big Bear Creek corridors. Source: City of Keller Parks.
Year-round
Known for
- Keller Town Hall + Old Town
- Keller ISD (top-rated)
- Bear Creek Park
- First U.S. city with Verizon FiOS
The Story of Keller
Keller started as a railroad stop with a different name. Settlers had farmed the woodlands near the Trinity since the early 1850s, but the town was born when the Texas and Pacific Railway between Fort Worth and Texarkana opened in 1881. That July a Tarrant County druggist, H. W. Black, set aside forty acres for a townsite he called Athol.
Within a year the name changed. At the urging of a Texas and Pacific foreman named John C. Keller, residents agreed to rename the town in his honor if it became a stop on the line — and Keller it became.
For generations Keller remained a small farming community fourteen miles northeast of Fort Worth.
Suburban growth later transformed it into a sought-after family city, consistently ranked among the best places to live in Texas.
Sources: Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas; City of Keller.
🗓️ Coming this week Full calendar →
TUE
28
Birdville ISD Board of Trustees
6:30pm · agenda online
TUE
2
Tarrant County Commissioners Court
10am · agenda online
TUE
2
Fort Worth City Council
7pm · agenda online
TUE
2
Arlington City Council
6:30pm · agenda online
MON
8
Northwest ISD Board of Trustees
6:30pm · agenda online
MON
8
Keller ISD Board of Trustees
6:30pm · agenda online
MON
8
Carroll ISD Board of Trustees
5:30pm · agenda online
🎈 Kids Trading Post · Keller 10 activities →
Storytime, classes, camps, leagues, and open-play in Keller, sourced from libraries and partner orgs. Updated nightly · no manual data entry.
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Sports
Keller Indians (KISD)
KISD athletics + 11 athletes to UIL state track 2026
HS
Keller Indians + Central + Fossil Ridge + Timber Creek
KISD operates 4 comprehensive HSs across 8-city service area.
Source: KISD
State Track
11 KISD athletes to UIL State Track May 14-16 2026
Multiple medal-stand finishes at UT-Austin.
Source: KISD newsroom
Rec
Keller Town Hall Recreation + Town Square events
Seasonal events, farmers markets, holiday programming.
Source: City of Keller
Multi-City
KISD spans 8 cities for Friday-night football
Colleyville, FW, Haltom City, Hurst, NRH, Southlake, Watauga, Westlake + Keller.
Source: KISD
⭐ Game of the week
Carroll Dragons — district football (anchor program)
🏈 District football ·
Tarrant County's anchor programs — Carroll (8 state titles), Keller (top-of-district 5A), Mansfield (B-rated district), Arlington Martin (AISD flagship), Fossil Ridge (KISD power program) — get priority weekly coverage from the news radar. Carroll Dragons headline the off-season anchor framing; weekly schedule populates from MaxPreps DFW + each ISD's athletics site.
📜 On this day in Tarrant County sports
1988
🏈 Carroll (Southlake) Dragons claim 1st state football championship — beginning of the dynasty that would produce 8 UIL state titles. Under coach Bob Ledbetter.
1993
🏈 Carroll Dragons capture their 3rd state football title (1988, 1992, 1993 = three-in-a-row 3A run under Coach Ledbetter; QB Kris Brown led the '93 squad past Cuero).
2011
🏈 Carroll Dragons win their 8th and most recent UIL state football title — capping the program's run as Tarrant County's most successful HS football dynasty.
2018
🥎 Mansfield Tigers softball reaches UIL state semifinals — anchor moment for MISD's growing softball program under HC Gregory George's broader program leadership.
2026
🏃 Keller ISD sends 11 athletes to UIL State Track & Field — multiple medal-stand finishes per district release.
📻 Radio guide
Southlake Carroll Dragons football
KKGM 1630 AM (Fort Worth; news/sports) — exclusive radio home of Carroll football
Dragon Sports Network
Aledo Bearcats football (Tarrant-area marquee program)
KTFW-FM 92.1 'Hank FM' (LKCM Radio Group; country) — flagship for Aledo broadcasts
Aledo Sports Network
Arlington ISD football (Martin · Lamar · Bowie)
NFHS Network (streaming platform) — official AISD broadcast partner
NFHS Network
Mansfield Tigers football
NFHS Network (streaming platform) — Mansfield ISD live broadcasts
NFHS Network
Keller / Fossil Ridge (Keller ISD) football
NFHS Network (streaming platform) — Keller ISD live broadcasts
NFHS Network
Fort Worth-area HS football game of the week
KTCU-FM 88.7 'The Choice' (TCU student station, Fort Worth)
KTCU 88.7
🏆 UIL playoff bracket
No active Tarrant County UIL playoff bracket on the desk. Populates when a Tarrant County team is in a UIL playoff round (football, basketball, baseball/softball, volleyball). Source: UIL playoff records.
Activities
Things to do in Keller
Kids, library, sports, fitness, classes, camps, open play — sourced from libraries, parks, and partner orgs across Keller.
story-time
Toddler Storytime
Weekly
Keller Public Library · 640 Johnson Rd
story-time
Keller Library Storytime
Tu/Th 10:30am
Keller Public Library · 640 Johnson Rd, Keller
club
Keller Summer Reading Program
June-August
Keller Public Library · Keller Library
camp
Bear Creek Park Day Camp
Weekly Jun-Aug
Keller Parks & Rec · Bear Creek Park
story-time
Baby Storytime
Weekly · check LibCal
Keller Public Library · 640 Johnson Rd, Keller
story-time
Preschool Storytime
Weekly · check LibCal
Keller Public Library · 640 Johnson Rd, Keller
Civic & Government
Civic & Government
Keller city hall, schools, and county connection
Government
Council-manager government with seven-member council
Keller operates under a council-manager form with a mayor elected at-large and six council members elected from numbered places. The city manager runs day-to-day operations from Town Hall. Source: City of Keller.
Mayor
Mayor presides over at-large council
The Keller mayor is elected citywide and presides over the seven-member council that sets policy and appoints the city manager. Source: City of Keller.
Schools
Keller ISD serves the city
Keller ISD serves all of Keller and portions of eight neighboring municipalities, with the district's central administration in Keller. Source: Keller ISD.
County
City sits in Tarrant County (judge Tim O'Hare)
Keller is fully within Tarrant County, governed at the county level by the commissioners court under County Judge Tim O'Hare. Source: Tarrant County.
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By the Numbers
Keller by the Numbers
Census + KISD + tax
Pop
46,044 (recent Census)
Mid-sized Mid-Cities community. Source: Census.
Source: City + ISD records
KISD
34,078 students, B rating
One of the larger N Tarrant districts; covers 8 cities. Source: TEA.
Source: City + ISD records
Area
18.5 sq mi
Bordered by Westlake/Roanoke N, NRH S, Colleyville/Southlake E. Source: Wikipedia.
Source: City + ISD records
Incorporated
Nov 16 1955
After being called Athol since 1881. Source: TSHA.
Source: City + ISD records
Population
46,044
Type
city
School District
keller-isd
School ISDs in Tarrant County
Tarrant County ISDs by enrollment + TEA 2024-25 accountability rating.
| ISD | Enrollment | Rating | Mascot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Worth ISD | 70,184 | C | Panthers |
| Arlington ISD | 56,000 | C | Various |
| Lewisville ISD | 50,000 | B | Various |
| Mansfield ISD | 35,000 | B | Tigers |
| Keller ISD | 34,078 | B | Indians |
| Northwest ISD | 32,000 | B | Texans |
| Birdville ISD | 22,637 | C | Hawks |
| Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD | 22,000 | B | Eagles |
| Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD (HEB) | 22,000 | B | Trojans |
| Crowley ISD | 16,000 | C | Eagles |
| Grapevine-Colleyville ISD | 12,520 | B | Mustangs |
| Burleson ISD | 12,000 | B | Elks |
| Carroll ISD | 8,300 | A | Dragons |
| White Settlement ISD | 6,700 | C | Brewers |
| Azle ISD | 6,600 | C | Hornets |
| Everman ISD | 5,500 | C | Bulldogs |
| Castleberry ISD | 4,000 | B | Lions |
| Kennedale ISD | 3,400 | C | Wildcats |
| Lake Worth ISD | 2,700 | D | Bullfrogs |
Updated 2026-05-27
Home prices by city
Median home prices across Tarrant County (in progress).
| City | Median price | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Westlake | — | Tarrant's wealthiest small-town |
| Southlake | — | Carroll ISD area |
| Colleyville | — | |
| Trophy Club | — | |
| Keller | — | |
| Fort Worth | — | County seat |
| Arlington | — |
Updated 2026-05-27
Ask the Desk
Questions about Keller
Which Keller ISD schools are closing and when?
Three intermediate schools — Bear Creek, Parkwood Hill, and Trinity Meadows — will close ahead of the 2027-28 school year. They remain open for the 2026-27 year. The May 14, 2026 board vote cited declining enrollment. Projected savings: $3M…
What are Tarrant County's 2025 property tax rates?
Tarrant County (general portion): ~$0.19 per $100. City of Fort Worth: $1.0624. City of Arlington: $1.0929 (down ~1¢ from 2024). Combined rates from Fort Worth ISD + City of Fort Worth + Tarrant County College bring the total for most Fort …
Who is Tarrant County's County Judge?
Tim O'Hare. He is the 33rd County Judge of Tarrant County since the county's founding in 1849, took office January 1, 2023, and his current term runs through January 1, 2027. He is running for re-election November 3, 2026, and has said the …
Who is Tarrant County's Sheriff?
Bill E. Waybourn. Source: Tarrant County elected officials (tarrantcountytx.gov).
Who is the State Senator for Tarrant County's District 9?
Taylor Rehmet (Democrat), who won the November 4, 2025 special election to replace Republican Kelly Hancock — Hancock left to become acting state comptroller. Rehmet won by roughly 14,000 votes (~15% margin) and is completing the remainder …
All Keller Q&As → Community Voice
History
Founded 1955
From the Athol post office to a railroad town to a Tarrant suburb
Keller's roots trace to the early 1850s, when Samuel Needham transferred a 640-acre tract to Isaac Roberts in 1848 — land that included the Double Springs settlement and the future site of Keller. A post office named Athol was established in 1881 along the Texas and Pacific Railway line, but residents soon renamed the stop Keller in honor of John C. Keller, a Texas & Pacific railroad foreman who worked the section. The town grew as a small farming and rail-shipping community on the cross-timbers prairie north of Fort Worth, remaining under 1,000 residents into the 1950s. Keller incorporated as a city on November 16, 1955. Population stayed modest through 1970 and then exploded with suburban growth along U.S. 377 — passing 4,000 by 1980, 13,000 by 1990, 27,000 by 2000, and 45,000 by 2020. The city's modern identity has been shaped by Keller ISD's reputation, Town Hall and Town Square, and the corridor along U.S. 377 / Keller Parkway. Sources: TSHA; City of Keller; Wikipedia.
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